Littleton Groom

Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG KC was an Australian Federal Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australias 17th longest serving federal Parliamentarian . He was a member of every nonAustralian Labor Party ministry from 1905 to 1926. He was a liberal protectionist, who believed in the extension of federal powers, but became increasingly opposed to the Australian Labor Partys socialist agenda.

Groom was born in Toowoomba, Queensland, third son of William Henry Groom and his wife Grace, ne Littleton. Groom was educated at Toowoomba North State School, Toowoomba Grammar School, where he was dux of the school and captain of both the football and cricket teams, and Ormond College, University of Melbourne where he won the 1890 University Scholarship at the Final Honours Examination in Laws. Groom then worked as a lawyer, Crown Prosecutor and acting judge. Groom married Jessie Bell in July 1894.

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