Shirley Jeffries

**Sir Shirley Williams Jeffries** (28 Fabrairu 1886 - 13 Satumba 1963) ya kasance memba na Majalisar Dokokin Kudancin Australia a cikin shekaru uku sama da shekaru ashirin da biyar kuma Dan wasan kwallon kafa na Australiya a Kudancin Australiya (SAFL).

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haife shi a Crompton, Lancashire ga William Jeffries, ministan Wesleyan, da matarsa Mercy, née Wibmer,  ɗaya daga cikin 'ya'ya maza uku da mata uku.  Iyalin Jeffries sun yi hijira zuwa Ostiraliya a cikin 1890 kuma sun zauna a Kudancin Ostiraliya da 1898 inda William Jeffries ya yi aiki a matsayin Shugaban Kudancin Australian Methodist Conference.

Jeffries ya halarci Kwalejin Prince Alfred da Jami'ar Adelaide inda ya kammala karatu tare da digiri na shari'a a 1906,  an shigar da shi cikin Bar a 1910  kuma ya yi aiki a matsayin lauya,  da farko tare da Fisher, Jeffries, Brebner & Taylor  kuma daga baya tare da Fisher.

Wani babban dan wasa a lokacin ƙuruciyarsa, kuma yana tsaye a 185 cm, [undefined] Jeffries ya buga wasan ƙwallon ƙafa na Australiya ga Norwood a 1907, [1] kuma tare da Firayim Minista na Kudancin Australia Lionel Hill ya kasance memba na kungiyar Norwood wacce ta doke kungiyar kwallon kafa ta Victoria (VFL) Carlton don zama Zakarun Australiya.[2] Ya koma Sturt a cikin 1908, inda aka dauke shi wani ɓangare na "mafi kyawun haɗuwa" na Sturt.[3][4] Ya kuma kasance babban dan wasan tennis wanda ya wakilci Jami'ar Adelaide a gasar tennis ta intervarsity.[5][2] 

## Ayyukan siyasa
An zabi Jeffries a Majalisar Birnin Mitcham  kuma ya shiga cikin siyasar masu ra'ayin mazan jiya a Kudancin Australia, yana aiki a matsayin Shugaban reshen maza na Arewacin Adelaide na Ƙungiyar Liberal Union mai ra'ayin rikon kwarya. Ya sami zaben kafin a zaba tare da Tarayyar Liberal (mai maye gurbin Liberal Union) don za ~ en Majalisar Dokokin Kudancin Australia na Arewacin Adelaide a Zaben 1924.  Bai yi nasara ba amma ya sake lashe zaben Liberal Federation na Arewacin Adelaide don Zaben 1927, kuma ya lashe kujerar jam'iyyar a karo na farko a cikin shekaru goma sha bakwai. Jeffries ya rasa kujerarsa a Zaben 1930 a yayin Babban Mawuyacin hali amma ya sake dawo da shi a zaben 1933 da ya biyo baya.

Bayan zaben 1933, an nada Jeffries a matsayin Ministan Masana'antu da Ayyuka  a cikin Gwamnatin Butler, kuma daga baya ya sami Babban Lauyan da Ilimi.  Rashin amincewarsa da kara yawan rabon yara ya sa ya sami adawa da kungiyoyin kwadago da kungiyoyin jama'a.

A cikin 1938, Firayim Minista Richard Layton Butler ya yi murabus daga majalisa don tsayawa a matsayin dan takara a zaben da aka yi a sashen tarayya na Wakefield . Rahotanni na kafofin watsa labarai suna da Jeffries da Thomas Playford IV a matsayin wadanda za su iya maye gurbin Butler,  tare da Jeffries an dauke shi dan takara mafi kyau fiye da Playford saboda kwarewarsa a majalisa, gami da matsayi a matsayin Firayim Minista a lokacin da Butler ba ya nan.  Jeffries ya nuna cewa zai tsaya takarar shugaban Liberal da Country League (LCL)  (sabili da haka shugabancin Kudancin Australia) amma lokacin da aka gudanar da shugabanci, an zabi Playford gaba daya. An yi tunanin cewa an yi watsi da Jeffries don Firayim Minista saboda "yana iya yin aiki sosai a kan tambayoyin jama'a, kuma kamar yadda ya bayyana matsayinsa a bayyane - a bayyane ga son mutane da yawa - a kan batutuwan zamantakewa a gaban jama'a a halin yanzu, don sanya shi Firayim Ministan zai kasance mara hankali. " Maimakon haka, Jeffries ya ci gaba da fayilolin Babban Lauyan, Ilimi, da Masana'antu da Aiki a cikin sabuwar Ma'aikatar Playford.

Bayan sake rarraba zaben, Jeffries ya sauya zuwa Gundumar zabe ta Torrens a 1938, inda ya yi aiki har zuwa lokacin da aka ci shi a Zaben 1944.  Ya sake dawowa kujerarsa a 1947 kuma ya yi ritaya a 1953.

## Ayyukan al'umma
Wani Methodist na dindindin, an kira Jeffries "mafi tasiri na Methodist na ƙarni a Kudancin Australia", kuma ya yi aiki a cikin ƙungiyoyin Ikilisiya da yawa, gami da Babban Taron Ikilisiyar Methodist daga 1917 zuwa 1960, mai kula da Makarantar Lahadi ta Blackwood da Gidan Hutu na Mount Barker. A matsayinsa na mai wa'azi, an bayyana wa'azinsa a matsayin "mai ma'ana, gaggawa, adalci, da tausayi". kuma an san shi sosai saboda adawa da barasa, tare da wani marubuci yana sharhi "Yaya masu sayar da giya suka ƙi S. W. Jeffries!!" 

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