# List of Australian Club members

The following is a list of notable past and present members of the Australian Club.
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* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
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* Y
* Z

## A

* Hon Joseph Palmer Abbott OBE MC, Grazier and politician
* Haynes Gibbes Alleyne, Medical practitioner.
* Hon John Anderson (Australian politician) AO, Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
* Rt Hon Doug Anthony AC, CH, FTSE Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
* Hon Larry Anthony AO

## B

* Sir Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough KBE VD, Engineer
* Rt Hon Sir Edmund Barton GCMG QC, First Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
* Rt Hon Sir Garfield Barwick GCMG AK, Attorney-General of Australia (1958–61), Minister for External Affairs (1961–64) and the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia (1964–81). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964 and a judge of the International Court of Justice (1973–74)[1]
* Hon Sir Thomas Bavin KCMG, 24th Premier of New South Wales.
* General Sir Phillip Bennett AC, KBE, DSO, KStJ
* Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO.
* Lester Joseph Brain (1903–1980) aviator and aviation administrator
* Hon Sir Gerard Brennan KBE AC QC
* John Le Gay Brereton
* Major-General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB CMG, First Australian appointed to General rank, KIA Gallipoli
* Sir Thomas Buckland, Goldmine-manager, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist.
* Hon Sir James Burns KCMG, Businessman, shipowner and philanthropist
* Hon Sir William Westbrooke Burton KCMG, Politician and judge.

## C

* Robert Campbell, Landowner
* Robert Campbell, Politician
* Hon Sir John Carrick AC KCMG
* Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy AC
* John Henry Challis, Benefactor University of Sydney
* General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB
* David S. Clarke AO, Chairman Macquarie Bank.
* Hon Terence Cole AO QC
* General The Hon Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC CNZM
* Sir Bob Cotton KCMG AO
* Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG, Premier of NSW
* Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper
* James Charles Cox (1834–1912) medical practitioner
* Major-General Paul Alfred Cullen AC CBE DSO ED, Soldier and Grazier.
* Sir Arthur Roden Cutler VC, AK, KCMG, KCVO, CBE

## D

* William John Dakin, Zoologist
* Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly KBE, CB, DSO
* Rt Hon Sir William Bede Dalley QC, Attorney-General of NSW
* Frederick Matthew Darley GCMG, Chief Justice & lieutenant-governor of New South Wales.
* Sir James Ralph Darling OBE, Headmaster Geelong Grammar School.
* Hon Sir John Bayley Darvall KCMG QC, Attorney-general of NSW
* Hon Sir William Deane AC, KBE, KStJ, QC, Australian judge and 22nd Governor-General of Australia.
* Peter Debnam MP
* Hon Sir George Dibbs KCMG, Three times Premier of NSW
* Rt Hon Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG KBE, Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.
* Sir Stuart Donaldson KCMG
* Sir Talbot Duckmanton CBE. Australian broadcaster and General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, former chairman of Newington College Council 1968-1973
* Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (1885–1963) pastoralist and politician in SA
* Lieutenant General Sir Donald Dunstan AC, KBE, CB (born 18 February 1923) is a former Australian Army officer, who was Governor of South Australia from 1982 to 1991.
* Donald J. Dwyer, former chairman of Newington College Council 1994-2000

## E

* Malcolm Henry Ellis, Journalist and historian,

## F

* James Fairfax AO
* Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax
* Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, Editor Sydney Morning Herald (1918–1937)
* Sir James Foots AO, Mining engineer and company director.
* Sir Francis Forbes
* Hon Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG, Barrister and politician.
* Sir Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC, Aviator and businessman.

## G

* Rt Hon Sir Harry Gibbs AK GCMG KBE, Chief Justice of Australia
* David Gonski AC, businessman and arts patron.
* William Deuchar Gordon, grazier and president of the club.
* Sir Albert John Gould VD, lawyer and politician.
* Hon Justice Peter Graham, Federal court judge.
* Sir Norman McAlister Gregg MC, ophthalmologist who discovered Congenital Rubella Syndrome.
* Hon Justice William Gummow AC, Justice High Court of Australia.

## H

* Jack Hannes Businessman, founder of HANIMEX
* Hon Sir John Hay KCMG
* Sir Samuel Hordern KBE
* Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC AFC
* Hon John Howard AC, Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007)
* Admiral Michael Wyndham Hudson AC
* Hon Tom Hughes AO QC
* Hon Justice Sir Percival Halse Rogers KBE, Judge
* Dr Timothy Hawkes OAM, former Headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta

## J

* Sir George Alfred Julius (1873–1946), mechanical engineer and inventor
* Alan Jackson AO (1936–2018), businessman and corporate executive

## K

* Hon Norman William Kater
* Sir Norman William Kater, Medical practitioner, grazier and politician.
* Stephen Lackey Kessell (1897–1979) forester and administrator
* Stephen Kimpton, Australian first-class cricketer and company director.
* Philip Gidley King (1817–1904) pastoralist and politician.
* Phillip Parker King, Naval officer, hydrographer and company manager.
* David Kirk MBE, Rugby World Cup winning captain of New Zealand and former CEO of John Fairfax
* Rt Hon Sir Frank Kitto AC, KBE, KC
* Frederick Percival Kneeshaw (1883–1955) engineer and company director
* Rt Hon Sir Adrian Knox KCMG QC, Second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

## L

* Lieutenant General Peter Leahy AC is a former Chief of the Australian Army.
* George Le Couteur OBE, company director.
* Sir Charles Lloyd Jones, Chairman David Jones Limited
* Hon Jim Longley
* Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, British and Australian statesman; served in William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet as Chancellor of the exchequer 1868–1873.

## M

* Hon Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer.
* Hon Sir William Macarthur, Pastoralist
* Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE DSO ED
* Major General Hon James Macarthur-Onslow VD Soldier, grazier and politician.
* Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG, Educationist, scholar and administrator.
* Hugh Mackay
* Sir Charles Mackellar, surgeon and M.P.
* Hon Michael MacKellar
* Brigadier-General Henry Normand MacLaurin
* Sir Normand MacLaurin, Physician, company director and university administrator.
* Hon Sir Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS, Colonial secretary NSW.
* Sir George Macleay KCMG, Explorer and Politician.
* William Sharp Macleay FRS, Entomologist.
* Sir Herbert Lethington Maitland, Surgeon and sportsman.
* Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG
* Conrad Martens
* Rear-Admiral Sir David Martin KCMG AO, Governor of NSW
* Hon Sir James Martin KCB QC, Three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
* Sir David Maughan QC, Barrister.
* John McCallum AC, CBE, Actor.
* Samuel McCaughey (1892–1955) grazier
* Rt Hon Sir William McMahon CH GCMG
* Sir William McMillan KCMG, Merchant and politician,
* Hon Roddy Meagher AO QC
* Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, Public servant and university chancellor.
* Sir Denison Samuel King Miller KCMG, Banker governor of the Commonwealth Bank.
* Jim Milner, former president of the NRMA and chairman of Washington H. Soul Pattinson
* David Scott Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell library, Sydney, Australia.
* Thomas Mitchell, surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia.
* Max Moore-Wilton AC
* Hugh Morgan AC
* Sir William Morrow, DSO ED.
* Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED
* Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
* Allan Moss AO, former managing director and CEO of Macquarie Bank
* Sir Rupert Myers KBE, vice chancellor, University of NSW.

## N

* Sir Charles Nicholson Bt, Founder of University of Sydney and Australia's first Baronet
* Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott KCMG KCVO CB

## O

* Richard Edward O'Connor, Foundation Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Arthur Alexander Walton Onslow, Naval officer and politician.
* Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow, Judge.
* Rt Hon Sir William Francis Langer Owen KBE, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia.
* Sir William Owen, Royal commissioner and Chief Judge in Equity of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

## P

* Hon Clyde Packer
* Sir Frank Packer KBE, OStJ
* James Packer AM
* Kerry Packer AC
* Rt Hon Sir Earle Page GCMG CH
* Banjo Paterson CBE
* Hon Andrew Peacock AC
* Professor Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG, barrister and professor of law
* Cardinal George Pell AC
* Brigadier Hon Thomas Alfred John Playfair DSO OBE VD MLC, Meat exporter, soldier and politician.

## R

* Rt Hon Sir George Edward Rich KCMG, Justice of High Court of Australia
* Hon Justice Bernard Blomfield Riley, Federal Court Judge
* Sir Alfred Roberts KCMG, surgeon
* Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG, Historian and university vice-chancellor
* Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815–1848) banker and landowner
* Hon William Robson MLC, NSW parliamentarian
* Christopher Rolleston CMG
* Air Marshal Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC, Governor of NSW
* George Alfred Russell (1839–1926), insurance executive

## S

* Gordon Samuels, AC, CVO, QC, KStJ,
* Hon Justice Kim Santow AC
* Paul D. Scully-Power AM
* Hon Sir John See KCMG, Premier of New South Wales.
* Sir Nicholas Shehadie, AC, OBE, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and ex-Captain in the Australia national rugby union team.
* Sir Colin Sinclair KBE
* Rt Hon Ian Sinclair AC.
* Robert Burdett Smith (1837–1895) solicitor and politician
* Hon Warwick Smith AM
* Rt Hon Sir Alfred Stephen GCMG CB
* Hon Justice Sir Matthew Henry Stephen, Puisne judge of the supreme court of New South Wales.
* Sir Bertram Stevens KCMG, Premier of New South Wales from 16 May 1932 to 5 August 1939.
* Hon Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor,
* Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart KCMG, Professor of physiology and medical administrator.

## T

* The Hon. Angus Talbot, former chairman of Newington College Council 2007-2013
* Sir Edward Deas Thomson KCMG CB
* Robert Towns, businessman and founder of Townsville.
* Dr Ralph Townsend, headmaster, Winchester College, formerly Oundle and Sydney Grammar School.
* Malcolm Turnbull, MP, former prime minister of Australia

## V

* Walter Liberty Vernon VD, Architect and soldier.

## W

* Hon Thomas Waddell, Premier of New South Wales
* Hon Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG KC, Premier of New South Wales
* Sir Samuel Robert Walder, (1879–1946), Businessman and politician (Lord Mayor of Sydney)
* William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) architect and civil servant
* Hon William Wentworth, explorer and founder of University of Sydney
* Morris West AM
* A B Weigall CMG
* Hunter White
* Richard Windeyer KC
* Major-General Rt Hon Sir Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO KC, Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia
* Sir William Charles Windeyer
* John Woolley
* Hon Mr Justice Edward Wise
* James Wolfensohn AO KBE
* Lieutenant General Sir Eric Woodward KCMG, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of New South Wales from 1 August 1957 to 1 August 1965

## Z

* Sir David Zeidler AC CBE FAA FTSE, Australian chemist and industrialist.