James Chester Manifold

Chester Manifold
Chester Manifold
Member of the Australian Parliament; for Corangamite
	In office; 29 March 1901 – 23 November 1903
Preceded by	New seat
Succeeded by	Gratton Wilson
	In office; 31 May 1913 – 30 October 1918
Preceded by	James Scullin
Succeeded by	William Gibson
Personal details
Born	10 February 1867; Camperdown, Victoria, Australia
Died	30 October 1918 (aged 51); At sea, Pacific Ocean
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Protectionist (1901–09) ; Liberal (1909–17) ; Nationalist (1917–18)
Spouse(s)	Lilian Eva Curle
Occupation	Landowner

James Chester Manifold (10 February 1867 – 30 October 1918) was an Australian politician and philanthropist.

Early life

Manifold was born in Camperdown, Victoria, attended Geelong Grammar School, and went to England with his family in 1881. However, the family returned to Australia because the northern climate did not agree with his health, and he subsequently attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. When he came into possession of a property left to him by his father, he mostly rented it to dairy farmers, to whom he later sold the land on liberal terms. He was a director of the Camperdown Cheese and Butter Factory, established in 1891, and was its chairman after 1907.

He was a member of Hampden Shire Council in the 1890s, being its president twice. On 11 March 1891, he married Lilian Eva Curle.

Federal politics

Manifold was elected to the Australian House of Representatives in 1901 as the inaugural member for Corangamite, representing the Protectionist Party. He retired in 1903 due to ill health, but in 1913 was persuaded to oppose the sitting Labor member, future Prime Minister James Scullin, representing the Commonwealth Liberal Party. He defeated Scullin in the election of that year, and held the seat until his unexpected death from pneumonia on 30 October 1918, during a voyage to North America. He was buried at sea, and was survived by a son and a daughter. In 1921, a statue of Manifold by Nelson Illingworth was unveiled at Camperdown by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce.

His son, Sir Thomas Chester Manifold, was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1929–1935, representing the electoral district of Hampden for the Nationalist Party and later the United Australia Party.[1]

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References

de Serville, P.H. (1986). "Manifold, James Chester (1867 - 1918)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 15 March 2008 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1310%7C Parliament of Victoria - Retrieved 2011-01-03

Parliament of Australia
Preceded by new seat	Member for Corangamite 1901-1903	Succeeded by Gratton Wilson
Preceded by James Scullin	Member for Corangamite 1913-1918	Succeeded by William Gibson

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