Lee Batchelor

Egerton Lee Batchelor , known as Lee Batchelor, Australian politician, was the second leader of the South Australian United Labor Party, a member of the First Australian Parliament, and the first member for the Federal Division of Boothby in South Australia, from 1903 to 1911. He was also the first federal politician to be given responsibility for the Northern Territory after it was ceded to the Government of Australia by South Australia.

Lee Batchelor was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1865 and after the early death of his photographer father he and his two brothers were raised by his mother. He was educated at the North Adelaide Model School and worked there as a pupilteacher when he was 12. He also worked at the North Adelaide Church of Christ secondary school, but became an apprentice enginefitter in the government engineering plant in the Adelaide suburb of Islington at 17.

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