Background
HARNEY, Edward Augustine Saint Auban was born on August 31, 1865 in Dublin. 5th son of Richard Harney, Justice of the Peace, Kiloteran House, County Waterford, Ireland.
HARNEY, Edward Augustine Saint Auban was born on August 31, 1865 in Dublin. 5th son of Richard Harney, Justice of the Peace, Kiloteran House, County Waterford, Ireland.
He was educated at Saint Vincent’s College, Castleknock.
He had the distinction of being called to the Bar in Ireland, Australia and England
He was called to the Irish Bar in 1892. Soon after he emigrated to Australia and was called to the Bar there in 1897. In 1905 he was made a King"s Counsel (KC) in Australia.
He returned to England and was then called to the Bar by Gray’s Inn in 1906, taking silk (that is becoming a KC in England) in 1920.
This marriage was dissolved in 1923 and Harney was remarried in 1927 to Kathleen Anderson from South Shields. They had a son Desmond who was born on 14 February 1929, just before his father’s death.
He went on to join the Diplomatic Service and was a Conservative councillor in Chelsea. Harney stood as the Liberal Party candidate at the 1922 general election in South Shields.
In a three cornered contest with Havelock Wilson standing as a National Liberal and a Labour candidate, Harney scraped home by just 25 votes over Labour with Havelock Wilson bottom of the poll.
In the general election of 1923 and again in 1924, Harney held his seat, this time in straight fights with Labour but with majorities of 7,195 and 6,319. Harney died just before the 1929 general election so no by-election was needed but this time Labour candidate James Chuter Ede gained the seat.
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In 1901 he was elected a member of the first Senate of Australia from Western Australia as a Free Trader sitting until the experation the three-year term to which he had been elected.
Spouse 1898, Clarissa Margaret, o.daughter of Robert Crewston Benington, Doctor of Medicine, Newcastle. Called to Irish Bar, 1892.