William Joseph Denny, MC was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier. He held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. Denny was the Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister for the Northern Territory in the government led by John Verran. In his speeches Denny highlighted that many workers were faced with high rents and poor conditions.
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William Joseph Denny, MC was a South Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier. He held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. Denny was the Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister for the Northern Territory in the government led by John Verran. In August 1915, Denny enlisted in the First Australian Imperial Force to serve in World War I, initially as a trooper in the 9th Light Horse Regiment. After being commissioned in 1916, he served in the 5th Division Artillery and 1st Divisional Artillery on the Western Front. He was awarded the Military Cross in September 1917 when he was wounded while leading a convoy into forward areas near Ypres, and ended the war as a captain. He published two memoirs of his military service, and when he died in 1946 aged 73, he was accorded a state funeral. In his speeches Denny highlighted that many workers were faced with high rents and poor conditions. He also sponsored the Female Law Practitioners Act, 1911, which enabled women to practice law in South Australia for the first time. He died in Adelaide, South Australia, on 6 December 1872, one of three children of Thomas Joseph D Jenny, a publican, and his wife Annie. He attended Christian Brothers College, Adelaide, then worked as a weather clerk at the General Post Office, Adelaide under the Postmaster General, Sir Charles Todd.
In 1893 he became the editor of the Catholic The Southern Cross newspaper, which published news about and for the Catholic community of South Australian. He replaced James O’Loghlin, who later became a United Labor Party senator for South Australia. In 1903 he was articled to J. R. Anderson KC, and was admitted as a solicitor in the Supreme Court ofSouth Australia in 1908. In 1910 he was transferred to the Territory of the Northern Territories. He conducted his own legal work on behalf of the Commonwealth Government when its administration of the Territory was taken over by the Commonwealth. In 1912 he was called an election spindly by an election cartoonists called Tallists, with his favourite cartoonists calling him a ‘long-indly spindler’. In 1913 he was a member of the Adelaide City Council, representing Grey Ward. In 1916 he was elected to the Adelaide Council as a councillor, representing the Christian Brothers Old Collegians Association, and captain of two city rowing clubs. In 1917 he was appointed as a lawyer by the University of Adelaide, where he practised until his death in 1946. In 1918 he became a barrister, practising at the Adelaide High Court.
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