Albert Gould


Sir Albert John Gould was an Australian politician and solicitor who served as the second President of the Australian Senate.

Gould was born in Sydney, the son of solicitor John Morton Gould and his wife Anne . He attended William Woolls school in Parramatta, and went on to study law at the University of Sydney, although he did not take a degree. He served his articles with his father and was admitted to the bar in December 1870. He then worked in Singleton for a Sydney legal firm. Gould also developed significant business interests, being involved with the Great Cobar Copper Mining syndicate and serving as a director of the Electric Light and Power Supply Company, the City Bank of Sydney and the Oriental Timber Corporation. OnSeptember 1872, he married Jeanette Jessie Maitland at St Pauls Church of England in West Maitland.

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