Edwin Gordon Blackmore

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rdf:langString Edwin Gordon Blackmore CMG (1837–1909), was Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments of the colony of South Australia. Blackmore was educated at King Edward VI. Grammar School, Bath, Somerset. He served with the Taranaki Rifle Volunteers in the New Zealand war from 1863 to 1864, and was present, in reserve, at the action of Poatoko, on 2 October 1863, and at the storming and capture of the rebel Maori strongholds at Ahuahu and Kaitake in March 1864. For these services Mr. Blackmore received the New Zealand medal. He was appointed Parliamentary Librarian to the Legislature of South Australia in Oct. 1864; Clerk Assistant and Sergeant-at-arms, House of Assembly, in Dec. 1869; Clerk of the House of Assembly in May 1886; Clerk of the Legislative Council and Clerk of Parliaments in May 1887. He also acted as Clerk of the 1897-1898 Australian Federal Convention, and was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Year Honours List 1901, in recognition of services in connection with the Federation of Australian Colonies and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia He was a prominent member of the Adelaide Hunt Club and Master of Fox Hounds for the years 1870 and 1885. He was the father of the early Australian rules football player, Lewis Blackmore.