William Henry Kelly 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.

Kelly was born in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

 and educated at All Saints College, Bathurst

All Saints College, Bathurst

All Saints' College is an independent, co-educational Christian college in the Anglican tradition. Located in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, the college caters for day students from Transition to Year 12 and boarders from Years 7 to 12....

, and Eton College

Eton College

Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....

 from 1893 to 1896. He married Olive Miller (better-known under the stage name of Olive Morrell) in London in January 1908.

In 1903 Kelly was elected to seat of Wentworth

Division of Wentworth

The Division of Wentworth is an Australian Electoral Division in the state of New South Wales. It was proclaimed in 1900 and was one of the original 75 divisions contested at the first federal election. The Division is named after William Charles Wentworth , a noted Australian explorer and statesman...

 in the Australian House of Representatives

Australian House of Representatives

The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

, representing the Free Trade Party

Free Trade Party

The Free Trade Party which was officially known as the Australian Free Trade and Liberal Association, also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states and renamed the Anti-Socialist Party in 1906, was an Australian political party, formally organised between 1889 and 1909...

. From June 1913 to September 1914 he was Minister without portfolio and acting minister for home affairs in Joseph Cook

Joseph Cook

Sir Joseph Cook, GCMG was an Australian politician and the sixth Prime Minister of Australia. Born as Joseph Cooke and working in the coal mines of Silverdale, Staffordshire during his early life, he emigrated to Lithgow, New South Wales during the late 1880s, and became General-Secretary of the...

's Commonwealth Liberal Party

Commonwealth Liberal Party

The Commonwealth Liberal Party was a political movement active in Australia from 1909 to 1916, shortly after federation....

 Ministry

Cook Ministry

The Cook Ministry was the tenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 24 June 1913 to 17 September 1914.Commonwealth Liberal Party*Hon Joseph Cook, MP: Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs*Rt Hon Sir John Forrest, GCMG MP: Treasurer...

. He reversed King O'Malley

King O'Malley

King O'Malley was an Australian politician. He was a member in the South Australian House of Assembly from 1896 to 1899, and the Australian House of Representatives from 1901 to 1917. O'Malley was also Minister for Home Affairs in the second and third Fisher Labor ministry...

's decision to build Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city...

's plan for Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

 using the departmental plan and instead appointed Griffin as Federal capital director of design and construction. He also negotiated a plan for standardisation

Standard gauge

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 of Australia's rail gauge, but this was scrapped when the Fisher government

Third Fisher Ministry

The Third Fisher Ministry was the eleventh Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 17 September 1914 to 27 October 1915.Australian Labor Party*Hon Andrew Fisher, MP: Prime Minister and Treasurer*Hon Billy Hughes, MP: Attorney-General...

 came to power in September 1914. He was in opposition until the formation of the Nationalist

Nationalist Party of Australia

The Nationalist Party of Australia was an Australian political party. It was formed on 17 February 1917 from a merger between the conservative Commonwealth Liberal Party and the National Labor Party, the name given to the pro-conscription defectors from the Australian Labor Party led by Prime...

 Government in February 1917. He did not get a ministry in the Hughes government

Third Hughes Ministry

The Third Hughes Ministry was the fourteenth Australian Commonwealth ministry, and ran from 17 February 1917 to 5 May 1917.Nationalist Party of Australia*Rt Hon Billy Hughes, MP: Prime Minister, Attorney-General*Rt Hon Joseph Cook, MP: Minister for the Navy...

 and retired at the 1919 election

Australian federal election, 1919

Federal elections were held in Australia on 13 December 1919. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 19 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Nationalist Party of Australia led by Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes defeated the opposition Australian...

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Kelly separated from his wife, who took their daughter back to England

England

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. He died Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

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 in the Sydney suburb of Camperdown

Camperdown, New South Wales

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His younger brother was the composer and oarsman Frederick Septimus Kelly

Frederick Septimus Kelly

Frederick Septimus Kelly was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics...

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