Background
He was born in Ealing to solicitor Alexander Hemsley and Catherine Blackett.
He was born in Ealing to solicitor Alexander Hemsley and Catherine Blackett.
He attended Oxford University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1886.
He qualified as a solicitor in 1886 and in 1888 migrated to Sydney. He died in Sydney in 1937.
He was a partner in a number of law firms, and from 1927 to 1937 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, first for the Nationalist Party and then for the United Australia Party.