{{Short description|Australian politician (1959–2025)}} {{Use Australian English|date=August 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Jeremy Kinross | image = Jeremy_Kinross.webp | alt = | caption = Kinross c.1992 | constituency_AM = Gordon | assembly = New South Wales Legislative | parliament = | term_start = 1992 | term_end = 1999 | predecessor = Tim Moore | successor = ''Seat Abolished'' | prior_term = | birth_date = {{birth date|1959|12|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Sydney, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|7|19|1959|12|18|df=y}} | death_place = Phuket, Thailand | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | birth_name = | citizenship = | party = Liberal | other_party = <!--For additional political affiliations--> | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | cabinet = | portfolio = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Jeremy Stirton Prevost Kinross''' (18 December 1959 – 19 July 2025) was an Australian politician. He was the Liberal Party member for Gordon in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1992 to 1999.
==Life and career== Kinross was born in Sydney on 18 December 1959, to John Stirton Kinross and his wife Elisabeth. He was educated at The King's School, Parramatta, before attending the University of New South Wales and Macquarie University, receiving a Bachelor of Laws (with Honours) and a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA, becoming both a Barrister and Chartered Accountant. He was a fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and author of the taxation section for the Commercial Law Association. He joined the Liberal Party in 1986.<ref name=nsw>{{cite NSW Parliament |title=Mr Jeremy Stirton Prevost Kinross (1959– ) |id=2105 |former=Yes |accessdate=13 May 2019}}</ref>
In 1992, the Liberal member for the local state seat of Gordon,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mr Jeremy Stirton Prevost KINROSS, M.B.A., LL.B.(Hons.), B. Comm., A.C.A., F.T.I.A. |url=https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/members/Pages/member-details.aspx?pk=2105 |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=www.parliament.nsw.gov.au}}</ref> Tim Moore, resigned over the findings of the Independent Commission Against Corruption, having been linked to the Metherell affair. Kinross was selected as the Liberal candidate to contest the by-election, which he won easily,<ref name="Green 1992 Gordon by-election">{{cite NSW election |year=1991 |district=Gordon_1 |title=1992 Gordon by-election |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref> (with an almost unprecedented swing against the Government of only 5%) as the Labor Party did not field a candidate. However, in a by-election in the neighbouring seat of Ku-ring-gai on that very same day (caused by the resignation of the then Premier Nick Greiner), the Liberal Party suffered a 19% swing taking, for the first time ever, the seat to preferences.<ref name="Green 1992 Ku-ring-gai by-election">{{cite NSW election |year=1991 |district=Ku-ring-gai_1 |title=1992 Ku-ring-gai by-election |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref> Both these seats were 'jewels in the Crown' for the Liberal Party – and there appears no public analysis or record whatsoever as to the reason(s) for that huge difference. Kinross was re-elected in 1995,<ref name="Green 1995 Gordon">{{cite NSW election |year=1995 |district=Gordon |accessdate=2 July 2020}}</ref> but in 1999 his seat was abolished. In the reshuffle of North Shore Liberal MPs, Kinross missed out on a seat, whilst Stephen O'Doherty in Ku-ring-gai was rewarded with the newly re-created seat of Hornsby (held by Liberal Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Neil Pickard until 1991). Kinross contested preselection for the Legislative Council, which is the upper house of the New South Wales parliament, but was unsuccessful. Much writing on the Liberal Party factions (especially in NSW)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GT6UG9TKZTMC|title=The Liberals: The NSW Division 1945–2000|last=Hancock|first=Ian|date=20 September 2007|publisher=Federation Press|isbn=9781862876590|language=en}}</ref> has attributed his downfall to them or, perhaps more accurately, to 'collateral damage' which also saw the chief factional powerbroker in NSW and deputy Liberal leader Ron Phillips, and his colleague Michael Photios, both defeated in that 1999 general election. The latter has been well documented in the Book "The Bear Pit" by former Leader of the Opposition in NSW, Peter Collins.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Bear Pit|last=Collins|first=Peter|publisher=Allen & Unwin|year=2000}}</ref> Kinross subsequently retired.<ref name=green>{{Cite NSW election |year=1999 |district=Ku-ring-gai |accessdate=30 April 2019}}</ref>
Kinross died in a choking accident in Phuket, Thailand, on 19 July 2025, at the age of 65.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McSweeney |first=Jessica |last2=Hope |first2=Zach |date=23 July 2025 |title=Former NSW MP dies suddenly in Thailand |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/former-nsw-mp-dies-suddenly-in-thailand-20250723-p5mh9e.html |access-date=23 July 2025 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |name-list-style=and |url-status=live |archive-date=23 July 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20250723100138/https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/former-nsw-mp-dies-suddenly-in-thailand-20250723-p5mh9e.html}}</ref>
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{succession box | title=Member for Gordon | before=Tim Moore| after=Abolished | years=1992–1999}} {{s-end}}
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