Lloyd Sommerlad

Ernest Lloyd Sommerlad (12 April 1919 – 17 April 2014) was an Australian politician.

He was born at Tenterfield to Ernest Christian Sommerlad, also a politician. He attended Sydney Grammar School and then the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts (1940) and a Bachelor of Economics (1946). During World War II he was an instructor of the Light Anti Aircraft School in Dutch New Guinea, holding the rank of captain. On 6 February 1943 he married Mavis Dorothy Patterson, with whom he had three children. On his return he was secretary of the New South Wales Country Press Association, and directed a number of commercial broadcasting companies. From 1955 to 1967 he was a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He died in Sydney in 2014.[1]

References
  1. "Mr (Lloyd) Ernest Lloyd Sommerlad (1919-2014)". Members of the Parliament of New South Wales.
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