Ben Courtice

Benjamin Ben Courtice was an Australian politician.

Courtice was born in Bundaberg and was educated at Bundaberg South State School. He left school at twelve to work in the laboratory of the Millaquin sugar refinery at Bundaberg. In 1905 he was involved in the formation of the Bundaberg and District Workers Union, which later became part of the Australian Workers Union. He married Bertha Demaine in 1910 and they had a son and three daughters before her death in 1925. Courtice won 90 for winning a footrace at about the time of his marriage and used it to buy a sugar farm and he subsequently became a member of various sugar growers organisations. In 1936, he married Elsie Dora Maud Joyner.

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