# Percival Inchbold

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**Percival Pennell Inchbold** (28 January 1884 – 8 July 1953) was an Australian politician.

He was born at [Yarrawonga](/source/Yarrawonga,_Victoria) to farmer John Inchbold and Mary Ann Burgess. He and his brother had a farm at [Telford](/source/Telford,_Victoria), and during [World War I](/source/World_War_I) he served in the [22nd Battalion](/source/22nd_Battalion_(Australia)) and was wounded more than once. He returned to farm at Yarrawonga and [Peechelba](/source/Peechelba,_Victoria). On 2 June 1925 he married Helen Mary Livermore, with whom he had a son. In 1927 he moved to [Wangaratta](/source/Wangaratta,_Victoria), where he was a farmer and closely involved in the agricultural community. He had served on [Yarrawonga Shire Council](/source/Shire_of_Yarrawonga) from 1921 to 1933 (president 1921–23) and served on [Wangaratta Borough Council](/source/Shire_of_Wangaratta_(Victoria)) from 1927 to 1936 (mayor 1933–34). In 1935 he was elected to the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) as a [Country Party](/source/National_Party_of_Australia_%E2%80%93_Victoria) member for [North Eastern Province](/source/North_Eastern_Province_(Victoria)). From 1938 to 1943 he was a member of [John McEwen](/source/John_McEwen)'s breakaway [Liberal Country Party](/source/Liberal_Country_Party). He was [Minister of Education](/source/Minister_of_Education_(Victoria)) from 1950 to 1952. Inchbold died at Wangaratta in 1953.[1]

## References

1. Parliament of Victoria (2001). ["Inchbold, Percival Pennell"](https://web.archive.org/web/20060823151803/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1565). *re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851*. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from [the original](http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1565) on 23 August 2006. Retrieved 13 December 2015.

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