Richard Orchard
Politician
1871 – 1942
Who was Richard Orchard?
Richard Beaumont Orchard CBE was an Australian politician.
Orchard was born at Cockatoo, near Maryborough, Victoria, to Cornish parents John Henry Orchard, a blacksmith, and his wife Alicia, née Thomas. In the 1870s he moved with his family to Sydney. He spent four years as a travelling jewellery salesman in rural New South Wales. In 1895, when he married Maria Annie Austen, he was a photographer living in the Sydney suburb of Ultimo. He later became a watchmaker and established a jewellery store in George Street, Sydney in 1901, which became a public company in 1913 as R. B. Orchard Ltd.
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- Born
- Oct 14, 1871
Maryborough - Spouses
- Nationality
- Australia
- Died
- Jul 24, 1942
Darling Point
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on July 23, 2013
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