death_date children constituency_mp birth_date term_end restingplace alma_mater death_place term_start spouse image name caption predecessor parliament birth_place alongside party successor article_title
19 september 1916 1 son south sydney sydney-flinders ashfield 10 february 1858 19 30 october 1900 january 1889 25 june 1894 5 july 1895 brookwood cemetery oxford university kensington , london , england 5 27 july 1898 february 1887 17 june 1891 17 july 1894 lilian margaret baird -lrb- 1884 -- 1916 -rrb- b r wise.jpg bernhard wise wise melbourne in 1898 at the australasian federal convention , joseph bavister oliffe walter edmunds '' new seat '' thomas new south wales new south wales new south wales petersham , new south wales alban martin , william traill , james toohey/william manning riley , james toohey , george withers james free trade party william winchcombe traill '' seat abolished '' arthur nelson frederick bernhard wise

bernhard wise

bernhard ringrose wise -lrb- 10 february 1858 -- 19 september 1916 -rrb- was an australian politician .
he was a social reformer , seen by some as a traitor to his class , but who was not fully accepted by the labor movement .
he said , `` my failure in sydney has been so complete -- my qualities those which australia does not recognise , my defects those which australians dislike most . ''
when he died , william holman said , `` there is hardly anything in our public life which we have to consider to-day that can not be traced back to his brilliant mind and clear foresight ... held undisputed supremacy as the foremost debater , foremost thinker and foremost public man in the life of new south wales '' .
