Ben Courtice
Politician
1881 – 1946
Who was Ben Courtice?
Benjamin "Ben" Courtice was an Australian politician.
Courtice was born in Bundaberg and was educated at Bundaberg South State School. He left school at twelve to work in the laboratory of the Millaquin sugar refinery at Bundaberg. In 1905 he was involved in the formation of the Bundaberg and District Workers' Union, which later became part of the Australian Workers' Union. He married Bertha Demaine in 1910 and they had a son and three daughters before her death in 1925. Courtice won £90 for winning a foot-race at about the time of his marriage and used it to buy a sugar farm and he subsequently became a member of various sugar growers organisations. In 1936, he married Elsie Dora Maud Joyner.
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- Born
- Feb 14, 1881
Bundaberg - Spouses
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Died
- Apr 26, 1946
Bundaberg
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on July 23, 2013
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