# Raymond Garrett
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{{Short description|Australian politician (1900–1994)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sir Raymond Garrett
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AFC|AE}}
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| office = [President of the Victorian Legislative Council](/source/President_of_the_Victorian_Legislative_Council)
| term_start = 20 February 1968
| term_end = 19 March 1976
| premier =
| predecessor = [Sir Ronald Mack](/source/Ronald_Mack)
| successor = [William Fry](/source/William_Fry_(Victorian_politician))
| office1 = Member of the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for [Templestowe](/source/Templestowe_Province)
| term_start1 = 20 May 1970
| term_end1 = 19 March 1976
| alongside1 = [Vasey Houghton](/source/Vasey_Houghton)
| predecessor1 = ''New constituency''
| successor1 = [Ralph Howard](/source/Ralph_Howard_(politician))
| office2 = Member of the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for [Southern](/source/Southern_Province_(Victoria))
| term_start2 = 21 June 1958
| term_end2 = 20 May 1970
| alongside2 = [Gilbert Chandler](/source/Gilbert_Chandler)
| predecessor2 = [Roy Rawson](/source/Roy_Rawson)
| successor2 = ''Constituency abolished''
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1900|10|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [Kew, Victoria](/source/Kew%2C_Victoria)
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|10|12|1900|10|19|df=yes}}
| death_place = [Box Hill, Victoria](/source/Box_Hill%2C_Victoria)
| party = [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Victorian_Division))
| spouse =
| relations =
| alma_mater = [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne)
| awards = [Knight Bachelor](/source/Knight_Bachelor)
| nickname =
| allegiance = Australia
| branch = [Royal Australian Air Force](/source/Royal_Australian_Air_Force)
| service_years = 1927–1937
1939–1945
| rank = [Group Captain](/source/Group_Captain)
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| battles = [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War)
| mawards = [Air Force Cross](/source/Air_Force_Cross_(United_Kingdom))
[Air Efficiency Award](/source/Air_Efficiency_Award)
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'''Sir Raymond William Garrett''', {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100%|sep=,|AFC|AE}} (19 October 1900 – 12 October 1994) was an Australian pilot, military officer, photographer, and [politician](/source/politician). A member of the [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Victorian_Division)), Garrett served on the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for eighteen years, and was knighted in 1973.
==Early life and career==
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Garrett was born in [Kew](/source/Kew%2C_Victoria), in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne), [Victoria](/source/Victoria_(Australia)). He was educated at Workingman's College (now [RMIT University](/source/RMIT_University)) and the [University of Melbourne](/source/University_of_Melbourne). At the age of 26, Garrett graduated from flying school at the [Royal Australian Air Force](/source/Royal_Australian_Air_Force) [base](/source/RAAF_Williams) at [Point Cook](/source/Point_Cook%2C_Victoria); he became a commercial pilot in 1927, and joined the [Citizen Air Force](/source/Citizen_Air_Force). Garrett later became the first civilian instructor in the CAF. Garrett was as keen on [gliding](/source/gliding) as he was on flying aeroplanes. In 1928, he set a [British Empire](/source/British_Empire) record for gliding duration. In 1929, he founded the Gliding Club of Victoria.
In 1933, he began working in the [Northern Territory](/source/Northern_Territory) for the [Larkin Aircraft Company](/source/Larkin_Aircraft_Company). Flying as the chief pilot for the company, Garrett ran the first Territory-wide mail route, and provided the air links between [Darwin](/source/Darwin%2C_Northern_Territory) and other townships in the territory. In the mid-1930s, Garrett left the Northern Territory and returned to Melbourne, where he tried being a professional photographer. Garrett's interest in photography began in the 1920s, when he was one of the country's first aerial photographers.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} In 1934, Garrett married Vera Halliday Lugton, with whom he had four children.
When [World War II](/source/World_War_II) broke out, Garrett was called up into the Royal Australian Air Force. Initially based at [RAAF Base Laverton](/source/RAAF_Base_Laverton), he moved to [Mascot](/source/Mascot%2C_New_South_Wales) to take up a post as commanding officer of the RAAF training school. He retired from the Air Force in 1945, having achieved the rank of [group captain](/source/group_captain).
After the war, Garrett took his earlier love of photography and set up a successful business in [Doncaster](/source/Doncaster%2C_Victoria), manufacturing photographic chemicals. He later became Chairman of [Ilford](/source/Ilford) (Australia) Pty Ltd. Several of his descendants shared his passion, and became professional photographers.
==Politics==
It was around this time that Garrett also began to dabble in politics, sitting on the council of the Shire of Doncaster and Templestowe for six years. In 1956, Garrett contested—and won—the seat of [Southern Province](/source/Southern_Province_(Victoria)) for the [Liberals](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Australia_(Victorian_Division)). He served the electorate with distinction, and was elected [President of the Victorian Legislative Council](/source/President_of_the_Victorian_Legislative_Council) in 1968. Southern Province had, by that time, become over-large and difficult to represent, and, after some redistricting, Garrett joined fellow Liberal [Vasey Houghton](/source/Vasey_Houghton) in representing [Templestowe Province](/source/Templestowe_Province). He held a seat in Templestowe until his retirement from politics in 1976.
==References==
* {{Cite web
|title=Parliamentary biography
|url=http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/president/x/garrett.htm
|accessdate= 11 March 2005
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060820190205/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/president/x/garrett.htm
|url-status=dead
|archivedate=2006-08-20
}}
* "Sir Raymond Garrett, 93, former President of Victorian Legislative Council and wartime pilot instructor", ''The Age'', 25 October 1994.
* Condolence motions, HANSARD records of the Victorian State Parliament, 14 October 1994 ([http://tex2.parliament.vic.gov.au/bin/texhtmlt?form=VicHansard.dumpall&db=hansard91&dodraft=0&house=ASSEMBLY&speech=19938&activity=Condolences&title=DEATH+OF+SIR+RAYMOND+WILLIAM+GARRETT%2C+AFC%2C+AEA&date1=18&date2=October&date3=1994 available online])
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