Alfred Conroy

Alfred Hugh Beresford Conroy was an Australian politician. Born in Winchelsea, Victoria, the son of James McDowall Conroy, he was educated at Hawthorn Grammar School in Melbourne. Becoming a bank clerk and surveyor, he moved to Goulburn, [New South Wales|Goulburn] in New South Wales in 1883. In 1893 he became a barrister, and he was an alderman on Goulburn Council. In 1901, he was elected to the Australian [House of Representatives] as the inaugural member for Werriwa, representing the Free Trade Party. In 1906, he was defeated by Labor Party|Labor] candidate David Hall, but in 1913 he was returned to the Parliament, again as the member for Werriwa but this time representing the Commonwealth Liberal Party. He was defeated again in 1914, and retired, dying in 1920.

Personal life

In 1900, Conroy married Adele Sophie Doyle, a niece of colonial MP Jack Want. The couple had three children. They separated in 1915 and he successfully petitioned for a divorce in 1918 on the grounds of abandonment.
Conroy died of heart failure on 28 November 1920, aged 56, at his home in Warrawee.