About: Edwin Mackrell

Edwin Joseph Mackrell (16 December 1878 – 24 March 1965) was an Australian politician. He was born in Strathbogie to farmer George Mackrell and Mary Ann Perkins. He attended state school until the age of fourteen, when he began work in a butter factory at Mansfield. By 1896 he was managing a butter factory at Fish Creek. He went to the goldfields in Western Australia in 1901, returning to Victoria in 1905 but travelling to South Africa in 1908. On 15 July 1910 he married Elsie Flora Harris, with whom he had three daughters. He remained in South Africa until 1916, when he returned to farm at first and then, from 1918, Strathbogie. In 1920 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Upper Goulburn, representing the Country Party. He was Assistant Minister of Railways from 1924