Alfred Edwin Winter

Alfred Winter
Alfred Winter
Member of the South Australian House of Assembly
	In office; 27 May 1905 – 9 February 1912 Serving with Peter Allen; John Verran;
Preceded by	John Shannon
Succeeded by	J. A. Southwood
Parliamentary group	United Labor Party
Constituency	Wallaroo
Personal details
Born	Alfred Edwin Winter; 18 November 1862; Macclesfield, South Australia
Died	11 June 1939 (aged 76); Richmond, South Australia
Spouse(s)	Jane Shepherd (m. 1888)
Children	2

Alfred Edwin Winter (18 November 1862 – 11 June 1939) was an Australian politician who represented the multi-member seat of Wallaroo in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1905 to 1912 for the United Labor Party.[1]

Winter was the third son (eighth child) of state school teacher Augustus Winter. He was born at Macclesfield and was taught by his father at the school at Moonta. He started his working life aged 12, apprenticed as a grocer's assistant in Hindmarsh. After four years, he went to work on his uncle's farm on Yorke Peninsula. Following five years of drought, Winter returned to Adelaide to work as a porter at Adelaide railway station. He later worked at the Broken Hill mines as a rate collector, then at Macumba Station and in the Telegraph Department at William Creek for five years before returning to Adelaide again. He conducted business there but a year later went to Wallaroo to work for the Wallaroo and Moonta Mining Company, where he remained until elected to parliament in 1905.[2] He married Jane Shepherd from Balaklava in 1888. They had two sons.[3]

Winter was first elected in 1905.[4] He did not seek re-election for a fourth term at the 1912 election.[5]

Following parliament, Winter lived on his farm at Port Clinton for 26 years and retired to Richmond only two years before his death. He was survived by his wife and two sons.[3]

References

"Alfred Winter: SA Parliament". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
"MR. WINTER, M.P. (Wallaroo)". The Register (Adelaide). LXXV (19, 780). South Australia. 5 April 1910. p. 11. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
"Late Mr. A. E. Winter". The Recorder (12, 539). South Australia. 20 June 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
"WALLAROO". The Register (Adelaide). LXX (18, 266). South Australia. 30 May 1905. p. 9. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
"THE SELECTIONS". The Register (Adelaide). LXXVII (20, 344). South Australia. 25 January 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

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[1] "Alfred Winter: SA Parliament". Archived from the original on 11 July 2018. Retrieved 24 July 2015.

[2] "MR. WINTER, M.P. (Wallaroo)". The Register (Adelaide). LXXV (19, 780). South Australia. 5 April 1910. p. 11. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

[obit-3] "Late Mr. A. E. Winter". The Recorder (12, 539). South Australia. 20 June 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

[4] "WALLAROO". The Register (Adelaide). LXX (18, 266). South Australia. 30 May 1905. p. 9. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.

[5] "THE SELECTIONS". The Register (Adelaide). LXXVII (20, 344). South Australia. 25 January 1912. p. 7. Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via National Library of Australia.