Doug Bardolph
Douglas Henry Bardolph (18 February 1893 – 2 February 1951) was an Australian journalist, trade unionist and politician
History
Henry Bardolph (ca.1854 – 22 June 1933) and Mary Bardolph (née Taggart) had five sons, and lived at Manly, New South Wales, where they ran a refreshment room or wine bar.[1] They moved to Victoria, where two sons (Donald Francis Bardolph and Harold Travers Bardolph) died of pneumonic influenza within a few days of each other in the epidemic of 1919, aged 31 and 28 respectively.[2] The family moved to Adelaide around 1919; Henry set up in business as building contractor, notably responsible for the Unley Oval grandstand.[3] Their youngest son, (Clement Patrick) Charles Bardolph, died in Adelaide in September 1926 aged 29 years.
Doug worked as a journalist[4] and proprietor[5] of the Unley News. He edited and published the South Australian Worker from 1930 to 1933; his brother Ken published the Labor Weekly from 1931 to 1934.
After a series of unsworn allegations of collusion and vote buying at a preselection ballot, a three-man committee of enquiry (Sampson, Burgess and Grealy) had both brothers sacked from the ALP;[6] both joined Lang Labor; Doug was elected president of the Lang Labor Party (South Australia), and as such won a seat in the multi-member Adelaide electorate at the 1933 State elections. Other seats they contested were Port Adelaide, West Torrens and Legislative Council District No. 1.[7] Bardolph and R. A. Dale, who joined Lang Labor while a member for Sturt, were the only two elected. In June 1934 the three South Australian Labor parties (A.L.P., Parliamentary Labor Party and Lang Labor) achieved a degree of unity, one of the prices of which was the re-admission of the Bardolph brothers. At the following elections in 1938, Doug, as a "Labor" candidate, independent of the A.L.P., won the seat of Adelaide, for the first time a single-member electorate.
At the 1944 election he, again as an independent Labor[8] candidate received the largest number of primary votes, but the A.L.P. candidate R. A. Dale) won with Communist preferences.[9] He stood for the same seat at the 1947 and 1950 elections, but received progressively lower support.[10] He died the following year. He never married. His brother Ken had rejoined the A.L.P. and served in the Legislative Council from 1941 to 1964, the year he died.
References
- ^ "Law Report, Friday, March 11". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). NSW: National Library of Australia. 12 March 1904. p. 8. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Pneumonic Influenza". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 30 January 1919. p. 7. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Unley Oval Improvements". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 25 February 1924. p. 13. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Ejected from Meeting". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 7 December 1922. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ "Local". The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 11 November 1920. p. 5. Retrieved 25 November 2014.
- ^ ""Crook, D— Crook"". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 29 January 1930. p. 15. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
- ^ "Lang Party Policy On Tuesday". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 3 March 1933. p. 22. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ^ Bardolph always listed as "Labor" not "Independent Labor", though that label has frequently been applied to him.
- ^ "Mr. Jeffries Defeated". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 4 May 1944. p. 5. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ "Election Figures". The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954). Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia. 6 March 1950. p. 3. Retrieved 27 November 2014.