Frank Anstey

Francis George Frank Anstey , Australian politician, servedyears as a Labor member of the Victorian and Commonwealth parliaments.

Anstey was born in London, England, the son of an ironminer, who died five months before he was born, and had little formal education. He stowed away on a passenger ship when he was 11, and arrived in Melbourne in 1877. He spent ten years working on ships to the South Pacific islands. After spending a period as an itinerant worker , he moved to Sale, where he met Katherine Mary Bell McColl and they married in 1887they had two sons. He became a cleaner in Melbourne, where he soon became involved in politics. He worked on the Melbourne tramways and became President of the Tramways Employees Union. Selfeducated, he wrote extensively for Labor newspapers such as Tocsin and Labor Call.

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