Stephen Perdriau

Background

He was born at Waverley in Sydney to surveyor Stephen Edward Perdriau and Grace Marion, née King.

Career

After attending Scots College and Sydney Grammar School he was employed by Dalgety"s Limited and then began farming on the Tweed River. He served as Minister for Business Undertaking for one day, 20 December 1921. A coalitionist Progressive who had joined the Nationalist Party by 1922, Perdriau was defeated in 1925.

He died at Kyogle in 1951.

Achievements

• During World War I he served in the Australian Imperial Force"s 3rd Artillery Division and was wounded and invalided at the Battle of Passchendaele. He attained the rank of corporal.

Membership

He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920 as one of the members for Byron, a member of the Progressive Party.