List of Australian Club members

The following is a list of notable past and present members of the Australian Club.

A

• Hon Joseph Palmer Abbott OBE MC, Grazier and politician
• Haynes Gibbes Alleyne, Medical practitioner.
• Hon John Anderson (Australian politician) AO, Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
• Rt Hon Doug Anthony AC, CH, FTSE Grazier and politician (deputy prime minister)
• Hon Larry Anthony AO

B

• Sir Samuel Henry Egerton Barraclough KBE VD, Engineer
• Rt Hon Sir Edmund Barton GCMG QC, First Prime Minister of Australia and a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
• Rt Hon Sir Garfield Barwick GCMG AK, Attorney-General of Australia (1958–61), Minister for External Affairs (1961–64) and the seventh and longest serving Chief Justice of Australia (1964–81). He was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1964 and a judge of the International Court of Justice (1973–74)[1]
• Hon Sir Thomas Bavin KCMG, 24th Premier of New South Wales.
• General Sir Phillip Bennett AC, KBE, DSO, KStJ
• Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO.
• Lester Joseph Brain (1903–1980) aviator and aviation administrator
• Hon Sir Gerard Brennan KBE AC QC
• John Le Gay Brereton
• Major-General Sir William Throsby Bridges KCB CMG, First Australian appointed to General rank, KIA Gallipoli
• Sir Thomas Buckland, Goldmine-manager, pastoralist, businessman and philanthropist.
• Hon Sir James Burns KCMG, Businessman, shipowner and philanthropist
• Hon Sir William Westbrooke Burton KCMG, Politician and judge.

C

• Robert Campbell, Landowner
• Robert Campbell, Politician
• Hon Sir John Carrick AC KCMG
• Cardinal Edward Idris Cassidy AC
• John Henry Challis, Benefactor University of Sydney
• General Sir Harry Chauvel GCMG, KCB
• David S. Clarke AO, Chairman Macquarie Group.
• Hon Terence Cole AO QC
• General The Hon Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC CNZM
• Sir Bob Cotton KCMG AO
• Sir Charles Cowper, KCMG, Premier of NSW
• Sir Norman Lethbridge Cowper
• James Charles Cox (1834–1912) medical practitioner
• Major-General Paul Alfred Cullen AC CBE DSO ED, Soldier and Grazier.
• Sir Arthur Roden Cutler VC, AK, KCMG, KCVO, CBE

D

• William John Dakin, Zoologist
• Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Joseph Daly KBE, CB, DSO
• Rt Hon Sir William Bede Dalley QC, Attorney-General of New South Wales
• Frederick Matthew Darley GCMG, Chief Justice & lieutenant-governor of New South Wales.
• Sir James Ralph Darling OBE, Headmaster Geelong Grammar School.
• Hon Sir John Bayley Darvall KCMG QC, Attorney-general of NSW
• Hon Sir William Deane AC, KBE, KStJ, QC, Australian judge and 22nd Governor-General of Australia.
• Peter Debnam MP
• Hon Sir George Dibbs KCMG, Three times Premier of NSW
• Rt Hon Sir Owen Dixon OM GCMG KBE, Australian judge and diplomat, was the sixth Chief Justice of Australia.
• Sir Stuart Donaldson KCMG
• Sir Talbot Duckmanton CBE. Australian broadcaster and General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, former chairman of Newington College Council 1968-1973
• Sir Walter Gordon Duncan (1885–1963) pastoralist and politician in SA
• Lieutenant General Sir Donald Dunstan AC, KBE, CB (born 18 February 1923) is a former Australian Army officer, who was Governor of South Australia from 1982 to 1991.

E

• Malcolm Henry Ellis, Journalist and historian,

F

• James Fairfax AO
• Sir Warwick Oswald Fairfax
• Charles Brunsdon Fletcher, Editor Sydney Morning Herald (1918–1937)
• Sir James Foots AO, Mining engineer and company director.
• Sir Francis Forbes
• Hon Sir George Warburton Fuller KCMG, Barrister and politician.
• Sir Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC, Aviator and businessman.

G

• Rt Hon Sir Harry Gibbs AK GCMG KBE, Chief Justice of Australia
• David Gonski AC, businessman and arts patron.
• William Deuchar Gordon, grazier and president of the club.
• Sir Albert John Gould VD, lawyer and politician.
• Hon Justice Peter Graham, Federal court judge.
• Sir Norman McAlister Gregg MC, ophthalmologist who discovered Congenital Rubella Syndrome.
• Hon Justice William Gummow AC, Justice High Court of Australia.

H

• Jack Hannes Businessman, founder of HANIMEX
• Hon Sir John Hay KCMG
• Sir Samuel Hordern KBE
• Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston AC AFC
• Hon John Howard AC, Prime Minister of Australia (1996–2007)
• Admiral Michael Wyndham Hudson AC
• Hon Tom Hughes AO QC
• Hon Justice Sir Percival Halse Rogers KBE, Judge
• Dr Timothy Hawkes OAM, former Headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta

J

• Sir George Alfred Julius (1873–1946), mechanical engineer and inventor
• Alan Jackson AO (1936–2018), businessman and corporate executive

K

• Hon Norman William Kater
• Sir Norman William Kater, Medical practitioner, grazier and politician.
• Stephen Lackey Kessell (1897–1979) forester and administrator
• Stephen Kimpton, Australian first-class cricketer and company director.
• Philip Gidley King (1817–1904) pastoralist and politician.
• Phillip Parker King, Naval officer, hydrographer and company manager.
• David Kirk MBE, Rugby World Cup winning captain of New Zealand and former CEO of John Fairfax & Sons
• Rt Hon Sir Frank Kitto AC, KBE, KC
• Frederick Percival Kneeshaw (1883–1955) engineer and company director
• Rt Hon Sir Adrian Knox KCMG QC, Second Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.

L

• Lieutenant General Peter Leahy AC is a former Chief of the Australian Army.
• George Le Couteur OBE, company director.
• Sir Charles Lloyd Jones, Chairman David Jones
• Hon Jim Longley
• Robert Lowe, 1st Viscount Sherbrooke, British and Australian statesman; served in William Ewart Gladstone's cabinet as Chancellor of the exchequer 1868–1873.

M

• Hon Hannibal Hawkins Macarthur Australian colonist, politician, businessman and wool pioneer.
• Hon Sir William Macarthur, Pastoralist
• Major-General Sir Denzil Macarthur-Onslow CBE DSO ED
• Major General Hon James Macarthur-Onslow VD Soldier, grazier and politician.
• Professor Sir Mungo William MacCallum KCMG, Educationist, scholar and administrator.
• Hugh Mackay
• Sir Charles Mackellar, surgeon and M.P.
• Hon Michael MacKellar
• Brigadier-General Henry Normand MacLaurin
• Sir Normand MacLaurin, Physician, company director and university administrator.
• Hon Sir Alexander Macleay MLC FLS FRS, Colonial secretary NSW.
• Sir George Macleay KCMG, Explorer and Politician.
• William Sharp Macleay FRS, Entomologist.
• Sir Herbert Lethington Maitland, Surgeon and sportsman.
• Sir William Montagu Manning KCMG
• Conrad Martens
• Rear-Admiral Sir David Martin KCMG AO, Governor of NSW
• Hon Sir James Martin KCB QC, Three times Premier of New South Wales, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
• Sir David Maughan QC, Barrister.
• John McCallum AC, CBE, Actor.
• Samuel McCaughey (1892–1955) grazier
• Rt Hon Sir William McMahon CH GCMG
• Sir William McMillan KCMG, Merchant and politician,
• Hon Roddy Meagher AO QC
• Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether, Public servant and university chancellor.
• Sir Denison Samuel King Miller KCMG, Banker governor of the Commonwealth Bank.
• Jim Millner, former president of the NRMA and chairman of Soul Patts
• David Scott Mitchell, founder of the Mitchell Library, Sydney
• Thomas Mitchell, surveyor and explorer of south-eastern Australia.
• Max Moore-Wilton AC
• Hugh Morgan AC
• Sir William Morrow, DSO ED.
• Lieutenant General Sir Leslie James Morshead KCB, KBE, CMG, DSO, ED
• Thomas Sutcliffe Mort
• Allan Moss AO, former managing director and CEO of Macquarie Group
• Sir Rupert Myers KBE, vice chancellor, University of New South Wales

N

• Sir Charles Nicholson Bt, Founder of University of Sydney and Australia's first Baronet
• Lieutenant General Sir John Northcott KCMG KCVO CB

O

• Richard Edward O'Connor, Foundation Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Arthur Alexander Walton Onslow, Naval officer and politician.
• Sir Alexander Campbell Onslow, Judge.
• Rt Hon Sir William Francis Langer Owen KBE, Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and of the High Court of Australia.
• Sir William Owen, Royal commissioner and Chief Judge in Equity of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.

P

• Hon Clyde Packer
• Sir Frank Packer KBE, OStJ
• James Packer AM
• Kerry Packer AC
• Rt Hon Sir Earle Page GCMG CH
• Banjo Paterson CBE
• Hon Andrew Peacock AC
• Professor Sir John Beverley Peden KCMG, barrister and professor of law
• Cardinal George Pell AC
• Brigadier Hon Thomas Alfred John Playfair DSO OBE VD MLC, Meat exporter, soldier and politician.

R

• Rt Hon Sir George Edward Rich KCMG, Justice of High Court of Australia
• Hon Justice Bernard Blomfield Riley, Federal Court Judge
• Sir Alfred Roberts KCMG, surgeon
• Sir Stephen Henry Roberts CMG, Historian and university vice-chancellor
• Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815–1848) banker and landowner
• Hon William Robson MLC, NSW parliamentarian
• Christopher Rolleston CMG
• Air Marshal Sir James Rowland AC, KBE, DFC, AFC, Governor of New South Wales
• George Alfred Russell (1839–1926), insurance executive

S

• Gordon Samuels, AC, CVO, QC, KStJ,
• Hon Justice Kim Santow AC
• Paul D. Scully-Power AM
• Hon Sir John See KCMG, Premier of New South Wales.
• Sir Nicholas Shehadie, AC, OBE, former Lord Mayor of Sydney (1973–1975) and ex-Captain in the Australia national rugby union team.
• Sir Colin Sinclair KBE
• Rt Hon Ian Sinclair AC.
• Robert Burdett Smith (1837–1895) solicitor and politician
• Hon Warwick Smith AM
• Rt Hon Sir Alfred Stephen GCMG CB
• Hon Justice Sir Matthew Henry Stephen, Puisne judge of the supreme court of New South Wales.
• Sir Bertram Stevens KCMG, Premier of New South Wales from 16 May 1932 to 5 August 1939.
• Hon Sir Francis Bathurst Suttor,
• Sir Thomas Peter Anderson Stuart KCMG, Professor of physiology and medical administrator.

T

• The Hon. Angus Talbot, former chairman of Newington College Council 2007-2013
• Sir Edward Deas Thomson KCMG CB
• Robert Towns, businessman and founder of Townsville.
• Dr Ralph Townsend, headmaster, Winchester College, formerly Oundle and Sydney Grammar School.
• Malcolm Turnbull, MP, former prime minister of Australia

V

• Walter Liberty Vernon VD, Architect and soldier.

W

• Hon Thomas Waddell, Premier of New South Wales
• Hon Sir Charles Gregory Wade KCMG KC, Premier of New South Wales
• Sir Samuel Robert Walder, (1879–1946), Businessman and politician (Lord Mayor of Sydney)
• William Wilkinson Wardell (1823–1899) architect and civil servant
• Hon William Wentworth, explorer and founder of University of Sydney
• Morris West AM
• A B Weigall CMG
• Hunter White
• Richard Windeyer KC
• Major-General Rt Hon Sir Victor Windeyer KBE CB DSO KC, Australian judge, soldier and educator, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia
• Sir William Charles Windeyer
• John Woolley
• Hon Mr Justice Edward Wise
• James Wolfensohn AO KBE
• Lieutenant General Sir Eric Woodward KCMG, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO, Governor of New South Wales from 1 August 1957 to 1 August 1965

Z

• Sir David Zeidler AC CBE FAA FTSE, Australian chemist and industrialist.

References

• A History of the Australian Club 1838–1888, DR J R Angel
• Who's Who in Australia 1941
• Who's Who in Australia 1950
• Who's Who in Australia 1974
• Who's Who in Australia 2007
• John's Notable Australians 1900