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About Sydney Shillington
- Sydney James Shillington (22 October 1874 – 6 June 1931) was an Australian politician. He was born in Obley to police sergeant John Shillington and Maria, née Oates.
- He was educated at the local public school and was a pupil teacher from 1888 to 1889 before becoming a public servant.
- He worked as a clerk in the Taxation Department from 1901 to 1905 and in the Treasury Department from 1905 to 1909 before qualifying as a police magistrate.
- He married Ida Clift in 1911.
- During World War I he served in Gallipoli and France and rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel before being invalided home.
- In 1919 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Nationalist member for Petersham; the next year he moved to Western Suburbs with the introduction of proportional representation, but he lost his seat in 1922.
- Called to the Bar in 1923, he practiced as a barrister before becoming resident magistrate and acting judge at Rabaul in Papua New Guinea in 1926.
- In 1930 he was forced by ill health to return home.
- He died in 1931 at Darlinghurst, survived by his second wife, Frances Margaret Glasson, whom he had married in 1929, and their son.
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