391 King Street

Arthur Augustus Calwell (1896-1973), politician, was born on 28 August 1896 at the home of Arthur and Margaret Calwell, 391 King Street, West Melbourne, eldest of seven children of Arthur Albert Calwell, a police constable who was to rise to the rank of superintendent, and his wife Margaret Ann, née McLoughlin, both Victorian born. Arthur’s paternal grandfather Davis Calwell was an American, whose Ulster Protestant father had served in the Pennsylvania General Assembly. Davis came to Victoria in 1853 and married a diminutive Welshwoman Elizabeth Lewis who became, in Arthur’s phrase, ‘the matriarch of the tribe’. His mother, who died when he was 16, was the daughter of an Irishman Michael McLoughlin, who is thought to have deserted ship in Melbourne in 1847. Calwell recorded: ‘I grew up in [the] crowded inner [city] area, with its cottages built on fourteen-feet frontages and even less, and with evidence of human misery visible to all’. Aged 6, he suffered a near fatal attack of diphtheria, to which he attributed the high-pitched huskiness of his mature voice.

Arthur Augustus Calwell (28 August 1896 – 8 July 1973) served as the leader of the Labor Party from 1960 to 1967. He led the party to three federal elections.

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