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| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Sir Arthur Rymill
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| office1 = [[List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide|Lord Mayor of Adelaide]]
| predecessor1 = Arthur Short
| successor1 = John Philips
| term_start1 = 1 July 1950
| term_end1 = 3 July 1954
| office2 = [[South Australian Legislative Council|Member of the South Australian Legislative Council]]
| term_start2 = 15 February 1956
| term_end2 = 11 July 1975
| predecessor2 = [[James Wallace Sandford|Sir James Sandford]]
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| office3 = [[City of Adelaide|Alderman of the City of Adelaide]]
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| term_start3 = 1 December 1945
| term_end3 = 4 July 1954
| term_start4 = 2 December 1933
| term_end4 = 2 July 1938
| birth_name = Arthur Campbell Rymill
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| death_place = [[Bedford Park, South Australia]]
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| spouse = Margaret Cudmore (m.1934)
| party = [[Liberal and Country League]]
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'''Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill''' (8 December 1907 – 27 March 1989) was a businessman, solicitor and [[List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide|Lord Mayor]] of [[Adelaide, South Australia]].
'''Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill''' (8 December 1907 – 27 March 1989) was a businessman, solicitor and [[List of mayors and lord mayors of Adelaide|Lord Mayor]] of [[Adelaide, South Australia]].


==History==
==History==
Born in Adelaide, the son of businessman Arthur Graham Rymill (1 February 1886 – 22 August 1966) and grandson of [[Henry Rymill]], Arthur was educated at Queen's School,<ref>Queen's School, North Adelaide was founded in 1892 by J.H. Lindon and E.L. Heinemann, both ex-St. Peter's College, taking over the building (and the bulk of the students) of Thomas Field's Adelaide Collegiate School.</ref> [[St. Peter's College, Adelaide|St. Peter's College]] and the [[University of Adelaide]]. He was admitted to the Bar in 1930.
Born in Adelaide, the son of businessman [[Arthur Graham Rymill]] (9 May 1868 – 10 September 1934) and Agnes Lucy Rymill née Campbell (1 February 1886 – 22 August 1966), and grandson of [[Henry Rymill]], Arthur was educated at [[Queen's College, North Adelaide|Queen's School]],<ref>Queen's School, North Adelaide was founded in 1892 by J.H. Lindon and E.L. Heinemann, both ex-St. Peter's College, taking over the building (and the bulk of the students) of Thomas Field's Adelaide Collegiate School.</ref> [[St Peter's College, Adelaide|St Peter's College]] and the [[University of Adelaide]]. He was admitted to the Bar in 1930.<ref name=":0">{{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Manning|first=Haydon|year=2012|volume=18|id2=rymill-sir-arthur-campbell-14182|title=Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill (1907-1989)|access-date=2022-12-12}}</ref>


First elected to the Adelaide City Council in 1933, Mr. Rymill represented Young Ward until 1937. In the next two years he was councillor for Robe ward. On 16 June 1940 he enlisted as a private in the 2/14th Field Regiment, 2nd AIF, and was commissioned as lieutenant on 1 January 1941. He was however injured in an Army vehicle accident (in Sydney according to one report),<ref name=mayor/> and was invalided out of the service in May.<!--two conflicting records:(1) 4 March he was transferred to camp hospital, Woodside; 29 April to camp hospital Wayville and discharged, appointment terminated in May (2) 21 February 1941 to Woodside, 27 February to Wayville, 15 March to DD&RD (what is that?); leave 4 March to 27 March--> He returned to his practice<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74465327 |title=Traffic |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=29 April 1941 |accessdate=31 May 2013 |page=9 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and later served as a part-time Red Cross representative and with the Naval Auxiliary Patrol off the [[Outer Harbor, South Australia|Outer Harbor]].
First elected to the Adelaide City Council in 1933, Rymill represented Young Ward until 1937. In the next two years he was councillor for Robe ward. On 16 June 1940 he enlisted as a private in the 2/14th Field Regiment, 2nd AIF, and was commissioned as lieutenant on 1 January 1941.<ref name=":0" /> He was however injured in an Army vehicle accident (in Sydney according to one report),<ref name=mayor/> and was invalided out of the service in May.<ref name=":0" /><!--two conflicting records:(1) 4 March he was transferred to camp hospital, Woodside; 29 April to camp hospital Wayville and discharged, appointment terminated in May (2) 21 February 1941 to Woodside, 27 February to Wayville, 15 March to DD&RD (what is that?); leave 4 March to 27 March--> He returned to his practice<ref>{{cite news |date=29 April 1941 |title=Traffic |page=9 |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article74465327 |accessdate=31 May 2013 |via=Trove}}</ref> and later served as a part-time Red Cross representative and with the Naval Auxiliary Patrol off the [[Outer Harbor, South Australia|Outer Harbor]].


He was elected to the MacDonnell ward of the [[Adelaide City Council]] in 1945 and held it until 1950, when be resigned to contest the Lord Mayoralty. He became, after Sir [[John Lavington Bonython]], the youngest elected mayor of Adelaide, and served four terms in the position. Assisted by longtime (1947–1965) town clerk (and close friend) [[W.C.D. Veale]],<ref>William Charles Douglas Veale was generally known as, and referred to as, W.C.D. Veale.</ref> he commissioned significant improvements to the city's [[Adelaide Park Lands|Parklands]]. He was, for a time, chairman of the City Council's parliamentary and by-laws committee.
He was elected to the MacDonnell ward of the [[Adelaide City Council]] in 1945 and held it until 1950, when he resigned to contest the Lord Mayoralty. He became, after Sir [[John Lavington Bonython]], the youngest elected mayor of Adelaide, and served four terms in the position. Assisted by longtime (1947–1965) town clerk (and close friend) [[W. C. D. Veale]], he commissioned significant improvements to the city's [[Adelaide Park Lands|Parklands]]. He was, for a time, chairman of the City Council's parliamentary and by-laws committee.


==Politics==
==Politics==
A lifelong supporter of the conservative wing of South Australia's [[Liberal and Country League]], and diametrically opposed to the likes of [[Robin Millhouse]] and [[Steele Hall]], he supported property enfranchisement qualification which applied in the State until (1970?), which meant that only landowners (and citizens with overseas war service) could vote in the Legislative Council. He was its deputy president, chairman of its finance committee, and its president (1953-1955).
A lifelong supporter of the conservative wing of South Australia's [[Liberal and Country League]], and diametrically opposed to the likes of [[Robin Millhouse]] and [[Steele Hall (Australian politician)|Steele Hall]], he supported property enfranchisement qualification which applied in the State until (1970?), which meant that only landowners (and citizens with overseas war service) could vote in the Legislative Council. He was its deputy president, chairman of its finance committee, and its president (1953–1955).<ref name=":0" />


He supported the [[Robert Gordon Menzies|Menzies]] government's 1951 referendum to ban the [[Communist Party of Australia]].
He supported the [[Robert Gordon Menzies|Menzies]] government's 1951 referendum to ban the [[Communist Party of Australia]].<ref name=":0" />


He was [[List of elections in South Australia|elected]] unopposed in 1956 to the [[South Australian Legislative Council]] as a member for Central District No.2. and held the seat until 1975.
He was [[List of elections in South Australia|elected]] unopposed in 1956 to the [[South Australian Legislative Council]] as a member for Central District No.2. and held the seat until 1975.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="SA parl">{{Cite SA-parl|pid=4132|name=Hon Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill|former=yes|access-date=12 December 2022}}</ref>


==Other Interests==
==Other interests==
A. C. Rymill was a noted polo player, representing South Australia in interstate matches 1933–1951, including the Gold Cup tournament in Sydney in 1938.
A. C. Rymill was a noted polo player, representing South Australia in interstate matches 1933–1951, including the Gold Cup tournament in Sydney in 1938.<ref name=":0" />


He was a speedboat driver and won the 1933 Australasian hydroplane championship in his father's hydroplane ''Tortoise II'' against H. McEvoy's ''Cettein''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41466180 |title=Conditions Suit Tortoise |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=6 February 1933 |accessdate=31 May 2013 |page=15 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} The ''Tortoise'' and ''Baby Tortoise'' hydroplanes were owned by his father and his uncle Ernest Seymour Rymill, who died in 1931. His father died in 1934.</ref> The following year it sank in Outer Harbor when it "flipped" after reaching 70 miles an hour.<ref name=mayor>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44939851 |title=Adelaide's New Lord Mayor. |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=3 July 1950 |accessdate=30 May 2013 |page=2 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
He was a speedboat driver and won the 1933 Australasian hydroplane championship in his father's hydroplane ''Tortoise II'' against H. McEvoy's ''Cettein''.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 February 1933 |title=Conditions Suit Tortoise |page=15 |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41466180 |accessdate=31 May 2013 |via=Trove}} The ''Tortoise'' and ''Baby Tortoise'' hydroplanes were owned by his father and his uncle Ernest Seymour Rymill, who died in 1931. His father died in 1934.</ref> The following year it sank in Outer Harbor when it "flipped" after reaching 70 miles an hour.<ref name="mayor">{{cite news |date=3 July 1950 |title=Adelaide's New Lord Mayor. |page=2 |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article44939851 |accessdate=30 May 2013 |via=Trove}}</ref>


He was on the board of many companies:
He was on the board of many companies:
*Chairman, Advertiser Newspapers Ltd 1980-83,
*Chairman, Advertiser Newspapers Ltd 1980–83,
*Director, The Bank of Adelaide 1953-80 (Chairman 1953-79),
*Director, The Bank of Adelaide 1953–80 (Chairman 1953–79),
*Member of Principal Board, AMP Society 1964-1980,
*Member of Principal Board, AMP Society 1964–1980,
*Director of Public Companies of South Australia,
*Director of Public Companies of South Australia,
*Director, Bennett and Fisher,
*Director, Bennett and Fisher,
*Director, South Australian Brewing Company.
*Director, South Australian Brewing Company.<ref name=":0" />


He held many public offices:
He held many public offices:
*First President, National Trust of SA,
*First President, National Trust of SA,
*Vice-President, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1954-63,
*Vice-President, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1954–63,
*Member of foundation board of Adelaide Festival of Arts,
*Member of foundation board of Adelaide Festival of Arts,<ref name=":0" />
*Member of the Adelaide Children's Hospital board (Vice-President 1957-84).
*Member of the Adelaide Children's Hospital board (Vice-President 1957–84).


He was a member of the [[Adelaide Club]] from 1929 (president 1979–1980) and a member of the [[Melbourne Club]] from 1956.
He was a member of the [[Adelaide Club]] from 1929 (president 1979–1980) and a member of the [[Melbourne Club]] from 1956.<ref name=":0" />


==Recognition==
==Recognition==
Arthur Campbell Rymill was knighted in 1954.<ref name=minister>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48129652 |title=Minister, Lord Mayor New S.A. Knights |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954)]] |location=Adelaide, SA |date=10 June 1954 |accessdate=30 May 2013 |page=3 |publisher=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Arthur Campbell Rymill was knighted in 1954.<ref name="minister">{{cite news |date=10 June 1954 |title=Minister, Lord Mayor New S.A. Knights |page=3 |newspaper=[[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] |url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48129652 |accessdate=30 May 2013 |via=Trove}}</ref>


Adelaide's [[Rymill Park]] was named for him.
Adelaide's [[Rymill Park]] was named for him.
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*Annabel (ca.1942 – )
*Annabel (ca.1942 – )


Their home was 39 Brougham Place, North Adelaide. The house was built for A. G. Rymill in 1907. Now part of [[Lincoln College (University of Adelaide)|Lincoln College]], the building is known as [[Lincoln College (University of Adelaide)#Whitehead|Whitehead]] and serves as the principal's residence.<ref>[http://federation-house.wikispaces.com/Adelaide+Federation+Heritage#Adelaide%20City%20&%20Vicinity-Rymill%20House,%2039%20Brougham%20Place,%20North%20Adelaide Rymill House, 39 Brougham Place, North Adelaide], Adelaide Federation Heritage</ref>
Their home was 39 Brougham Place, North Adelaide.


==Sources==
==References==
*Haydon Manning, [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rymill-sir-arthur-campbell-14182 'Rymill, Sir Arthur Campbell (1907–1989)'], [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]], National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, accessed 30 May 2013.

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Latest revision as of 04:22, 15 March 2024

For his father, the South Australian businessman and powerboat enthusiast, see Arthur Graham Rymill.

The Honourable
Sir Arthur Rymill
Lord Mayor of Adelaide
In office
1 July 1950 – 3 July 1954
Preceded byArthur Short
Succeeded byJohn Philips
Member of the South Australian Legislative Council
In office
15 February 1956 – 11 July 1975
Preceded bySir James Sandford
Alderman of the City of Adelaide
In office
1 December 1945 – 4 July 1954
In office
2 December 1933 – 2 July 1938
Personal details
Born
Arthur Campbell Rymill

(1907-12-08)8 December 1907
North Adelaide, South Australia
Died27 March 1989(1989-03-27) (aged 81)
Bedford Park, South Australia
Political partyLiberal and Country League
SpouseMargaret Cudmore (m.1934)

Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill (8 December 1907 – 27 March 1989) was a businessman, solicitor and Lord Mayor of Adelaide, South Australia.

History

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Born in Adelaide, the son of businessman Arthur Graham Rymill (9 May 1868 – 10 September 1934) and Agnes Lucy Rymill née Campbell (1 February 1886 – 22 August 1966), and grandson of Henry Rymill, Arthur was educated at Queen's School,[1] St Peter's College and the University of Adelaide. He was admitted to the Bar in 1930.[2]

First elected to the Adelaide City Council in 1933, Rymill represented Young Ward until 1937. In the next two years he was councillor for Robe ward. On 16 June 1940 he enlisted as a private in the 2/14th Field Regiment, 2nd AIF, and was commissioned as lieutenant on 1 January 1941.[2] He was however injured in an Army vehicle accident (in Sydney according to one report),[3] and was invalided out of the service in May.[2] He returned to his practice[4] and later served as a part-time Red Cross representative and with the Naval Auxiliary Patrol off the Outer Harbor.

He was elected to the MacDonnell ward of the Adelaide City Council in 1945 and held it until 1950, when he resigned to contest the Lord Mayoralty. He became, after Sir John Lavington Bonython, the youngest elected mayor of Adelaide, and served four terms in the position. Assisted by longtime (1947–1965) town clerk (and close friend) W. C. D. Veale, he commissioned significant improvements to the city's Parklands. He was, for a time, chairman of the City Council's parliamentary and by-laws committee.

Politics

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A lifelong supporter of the conservative wing of South Australia's Liberal and Country League, and diametrically opposed to the likes of Robin Millhouse and Steele Hall, he supported property enfranchisement qualification which applied in the State until (1970?), which meant that only landowners (and citizens with overseas war service) could vote in the Legislative Council. He was its deputy president, chairman of its finance committee, and its president (1953–1955).[2]

He supported the Menzies government's 1951 referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia.[2]

He was elected unopposed in 1956 to the South Australian Legislative Council as a member for Central District No.2. and held the seat until 1975.[2][5]

Other interests

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A. C. Rymill was a noted polo player, representing South Australia in interstate matches 1933–1951, including the Gold Cup tournament in Sydney in 1938.[2]

He was a speedboat driver and won the 1933 Australasian hydroplane championship in his father's hydroplane Tortoise II against H. McEvoy's Cettein.[6] The following year it sank in Outer Harbor when it "flipped" after reaching 70 miles an hour.[3]

He was on the board of many companies:

  • Chairman, Advertiser Newspapers Ltd 1980–83,
  • Director, The Bank of Adelaide 1953–80 (Chairman 1953–79),
  • Member of Principal Board, AMP Society 1964–1980,
  • Director of Public Companies of South Australia,
  • Director, Bennett and Fisher,
  • Director, South Australian Brewing Company.[2]

He held many public offices:

  • First President, National Trust of SA,
  • Vice-President, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust 1954–63,
  • Member of foundation board of Adelaide Festival of Arts,[2]
  • Member of the Adelaide Children's Hospital board (Vice-President 1957–84).

He was a member of the Adelaide Club from 1929 (president 1979–1980) and a member of the Melbourne Club from 1956.[2]

Recognition

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Arthur Campbell Rymill was knighted in 1954.[7]

Adelaide's Rymill Park was named for him.

Family

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He married Margaret Earle Cudmore (8 August 1913 – ca.2004) on 27 December 1934. They had two daughters:

  • Rosemary (ca.1937 – )
  • Annabel (ca.1942 – )

Their home was 39 Brougham Place, North Adelaide. The house was built for A. G. Rymill in 1907. Now part of Lincoln College, the building is known as Whitehead and serves as the principal's residence.[8]

References

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  1. ^ Queen's School, North Adelaide was founded in 1892 by J.H. Lindon and E.L. Heinemann, both ex-St. Peter's College, taking over the building (and the bulk of the students) of Thomas Field's Adelaide Collegiate School.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Manning, Haydon (2012). "Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill (1907-1989)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 18. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Adelaide's New Lord Mayor". The Advertiser. 3 July 1950. p. 2. Retrieved 30 May 2013 – via Trove.
  4. ^ "Traffic". The Advertiser. 29 April 1941. p. 9. Retrieved 31 May 2013 – via Trove.
  5. ^ "Hon Sir Arthur Campbell Rymill". Former members of the Parliament of South Australia. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Conditions Suit Tortoise". The Advertiser. 6 February 1933. p. 15. Retrieved 31 May 2013 – via Trove. The Tortoise and Baby Tortoise hydroplanes were owned by his father and his uncle Ernest Seymour Rymill, who died in 1931. His father died in 1934.
  7. ^ "Minister, Lord Mayor New S.A. Knights". The Advertiser. 10 June 1954. p. 3. Retrieved 30 May 2013 – via Trove.
  8. ^ Rymill House, 39 Brougham Place, North Adelaide, Adelaide Federation Heritage
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