Robert Stopford (Australian politician), Date of Birth, Date of Death
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About Robert Stopford (Australian politician)
- Robert Stopford (12 February 1862 – 28 January 1926) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at Upholland in Lancashire, to property owner John Stopford and Jane Elizabeth, née Yates.
- He attended University College, Liverpool, and became a medical practitioner, working in Ireland and Southport before travelling to New Zealand in 1902 and settling in Wellington.
- In 1911 he arrived in Sydney and settled in Balmain, where he ran a children's clinic.
- Stopford had been a Liberal in England but supported the Labor Party in Australia and New Zealand until 1917, when he joined the Nationalist Party over the issue of conscription.
- From 1922 to 1925 he served as a Nationalist member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balmain.
- Stopford died in Balmain in 1926.
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