- Born
- 23 May 1869
Alexandria, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 18 July 1942
Killara, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
Beeby was born at Alexandria, Sydney, and went to school nearby. He began training as a teacher but abandoned his studies, working for an iron supplier, a debt collection agency and a firm of accountants before beginning what would become a lengthy career in NSW Labor politics. He studied law during the depression and later went on to be appointed as a judge on both state and federal cases. He wrote on employment, and was an editor of the Bowral Free Press and the New England Democrat in the 1890s. He published short stories in the Bulletin and produced a number of plays, six of which were collected in Concerning Ordinary People (1923). His only novel, The Loaded Legacy, appeared in 1930.