predecessor parliament successor birth_place constituency_mp death_date nationality party birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name occupation
'' new seat '' australian james sharpe montgomeryshire , wales oxley 29 october 1915 welsh australian protectionist -lrb- 1906 & ndash ; 09 -rrb- liberal -lrb- 1909 -lrb- & ndash ; 13 -rrb- 1901 & ndash ; 06 -rrb- anti-socialist 1842 30 march 1901 richard edwards.jpg richard edwards -lrb- australian politician -rrb-
 23 april 1913 richard edwards businessman
richard edwards -lrb- australian politician -rrb-

richard edwards -lrb- 1842 -- 29 october 1915 -rrb- was an australian politician .
born in montgomeryshire , wales , he migrated to australia in 1862 , becoming first a goldminer in victoria and then a shopkeeper in brisbane .
he invested in both sugar and newspapers .
in the first federal election in 1901 , edwards was elected to the australian house of representatives as the member for oxley ; although there was no protectionist organisation in queensland , he described himself as such and sat with the protectionist party in parliament .
in 1906 , he defected to the anti-socialist party ; after the fusion of 1909 , he was a liberal member .
he retired in 1913 , becoming a businessman , publisher and philanthropist .
edwards died in 1915 and was buried in toowong cemetery .
