Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH

Order of the Companions of Honour

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 (9 September 1911 19 May 2002), Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia

Prime Minister of Australia

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Sir John Grey Gorton was born in Melbourne, the illegitimate son of Alice Sinn, the daughter of a railway worker, and English orange orchardist John Rose Gorton. The older Gorton and his wife Kathleen had emigrated to Australia by way of South Africa, where they had prospered during the Boer War

Second Boer War

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