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Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement/Deakin, Alfred
DEAKIN, ALFRED (1856-1919), Australian politician, was born at Melbourne 3 August 1856.
He was the only son of William Deakin, an accountant, by his wife, Sarah Bill, daughter of a Shropshire farmer.
Alfred deakin brief biography of adolf
Educated from 1864 to 1871 at the Church of England grammar school, Melbourne, he decided to adopt the law as a profession, and, after study at the university of Melbourne, he was admitted in September 1877 to the Victorian bar.
But he was more attracted by literature, and was persuaded by David Syme [q.v.], who then controlled the Melbourne Age, to take up journalism. Under Syme’s influence he finally abandoned the belief in free trade which he had learned from the works of John Stuart Mill, and was induced in 1879 to stand for the constituency of West Bourke as a supporter of (Sir) Graham Berry [q.v.] in his violent conflict with the conservatives, who had the support of the legislative council, that body b