Arthur Rylah
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Sir Arthur Rylah KBE, CMG |
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| Deputy Premier of Victoria | |
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In office 7 June 1955 – 5 March 1971 |
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| Premier | Henry Bolte |
| Preceded by | Bill Galvin |
| Succeeded by | Dick Hamer |
| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Kew |
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In office 17 December 1949 – 5 May 1971 |
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| Preceded by | Wilfrid Kent Hughes |
| Succeeded by | Dick Hamer |
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Arthur Gordon Rylah 3 October 1909 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 20 September 1974 (aged 64) Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Political party |
Liberal and Country Party, Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Ann Flora Froude Flashman Ruth Reiner |
Sir Arthur Gordon Rylah, KBE CMG (3 October 1909 – 20 September 1974) was an Australian politician and lawyer, Deputy Premier of Victoria 1955 to 1971.
Rylah was born in Kew, Melbourne, the son of Walter Robert Rylah, a solicitor, and Helen Isabel Webb. He was educated at Trinity Grammar and the University of Melbourne, where he entered residence at Trinity College in 1928 reading Arts. He graduated with a law degree in 1932. On 10 September 1937 Rylah married Ann Froude Flashman, a veterinarian, with whom he had two children.
In 1940 he was appointed major in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), serving in the Northern Territory, New Guinea and on New Britain. He was mentioned in despatches.
After being demobilised in January 1946, he returned to practising law, and joined the newly formed Liberal Party. On 17 December 1949 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Kew, a safe conservative seat in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. The sitting member, Wilfrid Kent Hughes, had moved up to federal politics. Rylah would hold this seat without serious difficulty until resigning in March 1971.
Rylah's political colleagues quickly recognised his talents, and in 1953 he was appointed deputy leader of the party. This was the position which he was to hold, under the party's leader Sir Henry Bolte, for the next 18 years.
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