Roy Vincent

{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{One source|date=March 2020}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = The Honourable |name = Roy Vincent |honorific_suffix = |image= |order = Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests |term_start = 18 June 1932 |term_end = 16 May 1941 |predecessor = Frank Chaffey |successor = Jack Baddeley |majority = |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1892|2|6}} |birth_place = near Glen Innes, New South Wales |death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1965|6|5|1892|2|6}} |death_place = Sydney |party = Progressive Party Country Party }}

'''Roy Stanley Vincent''' (6 February 1892 – 5 June 1965) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1922 until 1953. He was a member of the "True Blue" faction of the Progressive Party until it became the Country Party in 1927. He was the party's Deputy Leader and Whip between 1950 and 1953. He held ministerial rank as the Secretary of Mines and Minister for Forests between 1932 and 1941.

==Early life== {{Unreferenced section|date=May 2025}} Vincent was born at Glen Innes, New South Wales and was the son of a newspaper editor. He was educated at Uralla and became a newspaper reporter but eventually edited and owned the Don Dorrigo Gazette in Dorrigo. He became active in community organizations including the New England New State Movement of Earle Page, the Returned and Services League of Australia and the Aboriginal Protection Board. Vincent served in the First Australian Imperial Force during World War One and was severely wounded and gassed in France.

==State Parliament== Vincent was elected to the parliament as a Progressive Party member for in the multi-member seat of Oxley at the 1922 election. He defeated the sitting member and his Progressive Party colleague Richard Price. He moved to the seat of Raleigh as a member of the Country Party when New South Wales reverted to single member electorates at the 1927 election. He retained this seat for the next eight elections and retired at the 1953 election.<ref name="Vincent NSW Parl">{{Cite NSW Parliament |former=Yes |access-date=5 May 2019 |id=1525 |title= Mr Roy Stanley Vincent (1892-1965)}}</ref>

==Government== The state election of 1932 saw the landslide defeat of Labor and the formation of a conservative coalition government by Bertram Stevens. Vincent was the Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests throughout the premiership of Stevens and his successor Alexander Mair whose government was defeated at the 1941 election.<ref name="Vincent NSW Parl"/>

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{{S-start}} {{s-par|au-nsw-la}} {{Succession box | title=Member for Oxley (multi-member) | before= Richard Price | after= Lewis Martin reverted to single member seat|with=Joseph Fitzgerald |with2=Theodore Hill |years=1922{{spaced ndash}}1927}} {{Succession box | title=Member for Raleigh | before= Restored seat | after= Radford Gamack| years=1927{{spaced ndash}}1953}} {{S-off}} {{S-bef |before= Frank Chaffey }} {{S-ttl |title= Secretary for Mines and Minister for Forests | years = 1932{{spaced ndash}}1941 }} {{S-aft|after= Jack Baddeley}} {{S-end}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vincent, Roy}} Category:1892 births Category:1965 deaths Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales Category:Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Category:20th-century Australian politicians Category:Ministers for agriculture (New South Wales)