{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = Sir | name = John Soundy | honorific_suffix = CBE | image = Sir John Soundy OBE.png | caption = | alt = | office1 = Chair of Committees<br/>{{small|Deputy-President of the Tasmanian Parliament}} | term_start1 = 1948 | term_end1 = 1952 | predecessor1 = | successor1 = | office2 = Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Denison | term_start2 = 1925 | term_end2 = 1946 | predecessor2 = | successor2 = Robert Harvey | office3 = Member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Hobart | term_start3 = 1946 | term_end3 = 1952 | predecessor3 = {{Collapsible list | title = ''3 member electorate'' | William Strutt | Dennis Lonergan | Charles Eady }} | successor3 = Phyllis Benjamin | office4 = Lord Mayor of Hobart | term_start4 = 1938 | term_end4 = 1946 | predecessor4 = Joshua J. Wignall, C.M.G. | successor4 = W. W. Osborne | office5 = Mayor of Hobart | term5 = 1925 | predecessor5 = J. A. McKenzie | successor5 = Francis Valentine | term_start6 = 1929 | term_end6 = 1932 | predecessor6 = J. J. Wignall | successor6 = Joshua J. Wignall, C.M.G. | birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|11|14|df=y}} | birth_place = Dorchester, Dorset, England, UK | death_date = {{Death date and age|1960|10|25|1878|11|14|df=y}} | death_place = Hobart, Tasmania, Australia | party = Independent (from 1946) <br> Nationalist (until 1946) }} '''Sir John Soundy''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|CBE}} (14 November 1878 – 25 October 1960) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England. In 1925 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as a Nationalist member for Denison. He concurrently served as Lord Mayor of Hobart from 1938 until 1946, when he resigned from the House to contest the Legislative Council seat of Hobart, successfully. He was Chair of Committees from 1948 to 1952, when he retired from politics. Knighted in 1954, Soundy died in Hobart in 1960.<ref name=tas>{{cite Tas Parliament |title=Soundy, Sir John |id=soundyj395 |access-date=24 July 2022}}</ref>
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