About: Henry Beardmore

Henry Beardmore (7 February 1863 – 29 August 1932) was an Australian politician. He was born in Melton to butcher Edwin James Beardmore and Flora McDonald. He grew up in Benalla and became a butcher at Glenrowan before becoming a farmer near Wodonga. On 15 July 1885 he married Agnes Annie Lee, with whom he had four children; she died in 1892, and on 23 August 1893 he married Jessie Muirhead, with whom he had a further ten children. He served on Wodonga Shire Council from 1898 to 1922, with four terms as president (1900–01, 1908–10, 1911–12, 1914–17). In 1917 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Benambra; he was associated with the Economy Party and more broadly with the Nationalists. From March to July 1924 he was a minister without portfolio, a position he h