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Raymond John Wiltshire (12 July 1913 – 22 July 1990) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Macedon to farmer David Bowen Wiltshire and Miriam Andrews. He was a mechanical engineer, and served in the Royal Australian Air Force from 1940 to 1945 as a fitter. On 26 April 1941, he married Doris Lorraine Hore, and they had two children.
On his return from war service, he ran a garage until 1949, when he became a real estate agent at Dandenong. In 1955, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal and Country Party member for Dandenong. He transferred to Mulgrave in 1958 and to Syndal in 1967. Wiltshire retired from politics in 1976 and died in 1990.[1]
References
- ^ Parliament of Victoria (2001). "Wiltshire, Raymond John". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
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