01755ctm a2200289 a 4500001000800000005001700008008004100025019001300066035001600079035001200095035001200107040001900119043001200138045001000150100004100160245010700201260001000308300002400318500004400342506004300386520077500429535006101204545012301265610003701388656002201425984001801447232727320050404193847.0951222s1935 at 0 neng d1 a12048052 9abn95390566 92292680 a2327273 aANL:MScANL:MS au-at---0 bd19352 aCampbell-Jones, Herbert,d1874-1942.14aThe Cabinet of Captains: the romance of Australia's first Federal Parliament,f[c. 1935]h[manuscript] c1935. a5 cm.a(3 folders). aManuscript reference no. : NLA MS 8905. aAvailable for reference. Not for loan. aRecollections of formation of Barton Ministry, establishment of Commonwealth Parliament and many of the parliamentarians in the first Parliament. Most of the chapters are devoted to individual parliamentarians and include details about their background and early lives, with occasional references to their later careers. The work includes impressions of Sir Edmund Barton, Alfred Deakin, Sir George Turner, Lord Hopetoun, Sir William Lyne, C.C. Kingston, Sir John Forrest, Sir Austin Chapman, Sir Philip Fysh, Sir George Reid, Sir Joseph Cook, J.C. Watson, Andrew Fisher, Sydney Smith, Sir Frederick Holder, Richard O'Connor, James Drake, John Keating, Gregor McGregor, Sir Robert Best, E.L. Batchelor, Sir George Pearce, W.M. Hughes, Sir Thomas Ewing and Samuel Mauger.1 aBoth the original typescript and a modern copy are held. aJournalist. Reporter and Chief of Staff of "Argus" (Melbourne) 1895-1911, Managing editor of "Sun" (Sydney) 1915-1931.10aAustralia.bParliamentxHistory. 7aJournalists2lcsh a3554cMS 8905