page_title: Neville Wran
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Neville Wran / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Neville Wran, after his investiture as a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to New Zealand–Australia relations, on 14 April 2010
context_page_description: Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party from 1980 to 1986 and chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation from 1986 to 1991.
context_section_description: Wran's first marriage was in 1946 at the age of 20, to Marcia Oliver, a showgirl at the New Tivoli Theatre. Oliver had a young son, whom Wran adopted, and they had one other child, a daughter. In 1976, a month after his divorce was finalised and three months after becoming Premier of New South Wales, Wran married Jill Hickson, and they had two children together. Wran and Hickson separated several times, first briefly in 2006, then in August 2011 after Hickson said she had been "frozen out" of her husband's personal affairs by his daughter Kim and his friend and business partner Albert Wong. They had reconciled by December 2011.
  A severe throat infection in 1980 required injections of teflon to strengthen his damaged vocal cords, resulting in his characteristic croaky voice.
caption: Wran in 2010
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