# Edward Guye

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**Edward Fritz Guye** (12 November 1887 – 4 July 1960) was an Australian politician who sat in the [Victorian Legislative Assembly](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Assembly) from 1940 to 1958.

Guye was born in [Brentford](/source/Brentford), England, the son of Fritz Guye and his wife Gertrude Percy Ashton Glover. His father was a Swiss watchmaker who had settled in London.[1] His father died in 1901 and Guye emigrated to Australia at the beginning of the 20th century. He enlisted in the [AIF](/source/First_Australian_Imperial_Force) on 2 September 1914, and was sent to Europe in October. He returned to Australia in 1916.[2]

In 1940, Guye was elected as [Country Party](/source/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Victoria) representative for the [Electoral district of Polwarth](/source/Electoral_district_of_Polwarth) in the Victorian Legislative Assembly. In March 1949, Guye was one of six Country MPs to defect to the [Liberal and Country Party](/source/Liberal_and_Country_Party) established by [Thomas Hollway](/source/Thomas_Hollway) as the Victorian division of the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Victorian_Division)). In December 1949, he became [Minister of Transport](/source/Minister_of_Transport_(Victoria)) and a [Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works](/source/Vice-President_of_the_Board_of_Land_and_Works).[3]

Guye's brother [Denis Guye](/source/Denis_Guye), who remained in England, was an [Olympic rower](/source/Rowing_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_double_sculls).

## References

1. British Census 1891

1. ["Australian ANZACS in the Great War 1914–1918"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110604204546/http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=121803). Archived from [the original](http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=121803) on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 16 November 2009.

1. [Government Gazette 1949](http://gazette.slv.vic.gov.au/images/1949/V/general/1117.pdf)

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