Henry Hoyle

Henry Hoyle
JP
Secretary for Mines
In office
31 October 1916 – 15 November 1916
Premier William Holman
Preceded by John Estell
Succeeded by John Fitzpatrick
Minister for Labour and Industry
In office
31 October 1916 – 15 November 1916
Premier William Holman
Preceded by John Estell
Succeeded by George Beeby
Member of the New South Wales Parliament
for Surry Hills
In office
14 October 1910 – 21 February 1917
Preceded by Sir James Graham
Succeeded by Arthur Buckley
Personal details
Born (1852-11-20)20 November 1852
Millers Point, Colony of New South Wales
Died 20 July 1926(1926-07-20) (aged 73)
Vaucluse, New South Wales, Australia
Political party Protectionist (1891–1895)
National Federal (1898–1901)
Labor (1910–1916)
Nationalist (1916–1917)

Henry "Harry" Clement Hoyle JP (20 November 1852 – 20 July 1926) was an Australian politician and rugby league football administrator of the 1890s and 1900s. A life member of the New South Wales Rugby League, Hoyle is credited with helping to craft the rhetoric justifying its successful split from the New South Wales Rugby Football Union.[1][2]

Early life

The son of a sea captain, Hoyle was born in Millers Point, New South Wales on 20 November 1852. He was educated at a Balmain convent school and Fort Street Public School. At age 10 he began his working life in Balmain with Booth's sawmills. He was apprenticed as a Blacksmith with P N Russell & Co,. then worked at Mort's Dock in 1868.[1]

Hoyle gained employment for the New South Wales Government Railways in 1876. While there he became a foreman and got married, setting up his house within the St Peter's, Surry Hills parish, of which he became a leading member.[3] Hoyle was active in an 1882 iron trade strike. He was a founding member of the Railway and Tramway Service Association of New South Wales, becoming its first president in 1885.[1]

In 1890 he was dismissed by the railways for his union activities. In 1891, as a member of the Protectionist Party, Hoyle was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the four-member seat of Redfern.[4][5] With the reduction of the size of the Legislative Assembly before the 1894 election, the Redfern electorate was reduced to being a single-member seat, and Hoyle was subsequently defeated by the Labour Party at that election.[6] After his electoral defeat he was employed to write for The Freeman's Journal, and stood again for the seat of Redfern as the Protectionist candidate at the 1895 election but was unsuccessful.[7] At the following election in 1898, Hoyle stood as the National Federal Party candidate for the seat of Sydney-Belmore, but was unsuccessful against the sitting Free Trade Party member, James Graham.[8]

New South Wales Rugby League

On 8 August 1907 at Bateman's Crystal Hotel, George Street, Hoyle chaired a meeting of fifty, comprising several leading rugby players and officials. The New South Wales Rugby Football League was founded and Hoyle was elected its first president.[9] Hoyle then went about making arrangements for a New South Wales representative rugby team to host New Zealand's like-minded All Golds touring side.

He then chaired meetings around Sydney at which he gave speeches to help attract players and clubs to the newly created league, ending up with nine. These nine teams signed with the NSWRFL played in Australia's first season of rugby league football, the 1908 NSWRFL season. The 1908–09 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain was conducted during Hoyle's tenure with the NSWRFL as well. At the begninning of the 1909 NSWRFL season, the League, which was almost broke, met and kicked out its founders Hoyle, Victor Trumper and J J Giltinan.[10][11] Harry Hoyle was later awarded Life Membership of the New South Wales Rugby League in 1914.

Political career and later life

Hoyle joined the Labor Party before the 1910 election and became the member for the Surry Hills, defeating his former opponent James Graham.[12] He was commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1911 and was also a Trustee of Taronga Park from 1912 until 1926. In January 1914, he was appointed as an Honorary Minister in the cabinet, charged with the duties of Colonial Treasurer, an office held by the Premier, William Holman, but was often referred to as the "Assistant Treasurer".

Hoyle left the Labor Party in 1916 over the conscription issue but was not retained in Holman's new Nationalist Party ministry.

Hoyle died on 20 July 1926 in Vaucluse, New South Wales. He was buried at South Head Cemetery on 21 July 1926.[13][14][15] His wife Maria died two weeks later.[16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mr Henry Clement HOYLE (1852 - 1926)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  2. ↑ nma.gov.au. "The game begins". League of Legends: 100 Years of Rugby League in Australia. National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  3. ↑ Garaty, Janice. "Judging a Man by his Deeds: Henry Clement Hoyle MLA and trade unionist". 2009 ACHS Conference. Australian Catholic Historical Society. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "THE GENERAL ELECTION". The Daily Telegraph (4689). New South Wales, Australia. 5 July 1894. p. 5. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ Green, Antony. "NSW Elections – Redfern 1891". NSW Elections Index. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  6. ↑ Green, Antony. "NSW Elections – Redfern 1894". NSW Elections Index. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  7. ↑ Green, Antony. "NSW Elections – Redfern 1895". NSW Elections Index. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  8. ↑ Green, Antony. "NSW Elections – Sydney-Belmore 1898". NSW Elections Index. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  9. ↑ Headon, David (2001). The best ever Australian sports writing: a 200 year collection. Australia: Black Inc. p. 316. ISBN 1-86395-266-7.
  10. ↑ Heads, Ian. "Controversy" (PDF). League of Legends. National Museum of Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 9 October 2011.
  11. ↑ "Rugby League Split". National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 16 March 1909. p. 2. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ Green, Antony. "NSW Elections – Surry Hills 1910". NSW Elections Index. Parliament of New South Wales. Archived from the original on 26 August 2015. Retrieved 2018-08-21.
  13. ↑ "MR. HENRY HOYLE". National Advocate. New South Wales, Australia. 21 July 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  14. ↑ "OBITUARY". The Sydney Morning Herald (27, 627). New South Wales, Australia. 22 July 1926. p. 16. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  15. ↑ "WHEN LABOR SPLIT". Evening News (18432). New South Wales, Australia. 20 July 1926. p. 9. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
  16. ↑ "OBITUARY". The Daily Telegraph (14, 556). New South Wales, Australia. 4 August 1926. p. 9. Retrieved 21 August 2018 – via National Library of Australia.
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Charles Goodchap		 Member for Redfern
1891–1894
Served alongside: Schey, Sharp, McGowen		 Succeeded by
James McGowen
Preceded by
Sir James Graham		 Member for Surry Hills
1910–1917		 Succeeded by
Arthur Buckley
Sporting positions
New title President of the New South Wales Rugby Football League
1907–1909		 Succeeded by
Ernest Broughton
Political offices
New title Honorary Minister
(charged with the duties of Colonial Treasurer)
1914–1916		 Vacant
Title next held by
William McKell
as Assistant Colonial Treasurer
Preceded by
John Estell		 Secretary for Mines
1916		 Succeeded by
John Fitzpatrick
Minister for Labour and Industry
1916		 Succeeded by
George Beeby
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