TY - CHAP
T1 - McIntosh, Gordon Douglas (1925-2019)
T2 - Senator for Western Australia, 1974-87 (Australian Labor Party)
AU - HAWKINS, John
PY - 2017/1
Y1 - 2017/1
N2 - Gordon Douglas McIntosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 29 May 1925, the son of Gordon McIntosh, ship's stoker and swimming pool attendant, and his wife Dorothy Robson, née Douglas. Attending Drumoyne Primary School and Govan High School, he was apprenticed in 1940 as a fitter and turner, starting work in the Glasgow shipyards before serving as a mechanic with the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948. McIntosh worked in Glasgow for a lamp-making firm (1948–49) and then with a foundry, as a fitter and turner and maintenance engineer.
AB - Gordon Douglas McIntosh was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 29 May 1925, the son of Gordon McIntosh, ship's stoker and swimming pool attendant, and his wife Dorothy Robson, née Douglas. Attending Drumoyne Primary School and Govan High School, he was apprenticed in 1940 as a fitter and turner, starting work in the Glasgow shipyards before serving as a mechanic with the Royal Air Force from 1946 to 1948. McIntosh worked in Glasgow for a lamp-making firm (1948–49) and then with a foundry, as a fitter and turner and maintenance engineer.
KW - McIntosh
UR - https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/583002
M3 - Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary
SN - 9781760105020
VL - 4
T3 - Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
SP - 496
EP - 499
BT - The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate
A2 - Browne, Geoffrey
A2 - Walsh, Kay
A2 - Bateman, Joel
A2 - Gupta, Hari
PB - Department of the Senate
CY - Canberra, Australia
ER -