Background
He was born in Geelong to accountant Stanley Wilson Birrell and Alice Hayden George.
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Hayden Birrell
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He was educated at Chilwell and then at Geelong College, graduating at fourteen to become an accountants
Career
He served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1939 to 1941 and in the Royal Australian Navy from 1941 to 1946, in which he was a petty officer He subsequently returned to work for the State Savings Bank of Victoria, and joined the Liberal Party in 1950, partly motivated by the Labor Party"s policy of bank nationalisation. In 1961 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong.
He moved seats to Geelong West in 1976 and served until 1982.
He died in 1994.
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Nationality
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Political Party
The Liberal Party