Wilfrid Mylchreest Simmonds (1890 – 2 January 1967) was an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. Born in Cairns

Cairns, Queensland

Cairns is a regional city in Far North Queensland, Australia, founded 1876. The city was named after William Wellington Cairns, then-current Governor of Queensland. It was formed to serve miners heading for the Hodgkinson River goldfield, but experienced a decline when an easier route was...

, Queensland

Queensland

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, he was educated at Mulgrave

Gordonvale, Queensland

Gordonvale is a small sugar-growing suburb situated in the southern end of Cairns on the Mulgrave River. At the 2006 census, Gordonvale had a population of 4,420....

 before becoming a sugar cane grower. After serving in the military 1917-1919, he sat on Mulgrave Shire Council

City of Cairns

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. In 1949, he was elected to the Australian Senate

Australian Senate

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 as a Liberal

Liberal Party of Australia

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Senator for Queensland, although he retired before the next election in 1951. Simmonds died in 1967.