Bernhard Wise
Politician
1858 – 1916
Who was Bernhard Wise?
Bernhard Ringrose Wise was an Australian politician. He was a social reformer, seen by some as a traitor to his class, but who was not fully accepted by the labor Movement. He said, "My failure in Sydney has been so complete—my qualities those which Australia does not recognise, my defects those which Australians dislike most." When he died, William Holman said, "There is hardly anything in our public life which we have to consider to-day that cannot be traced back to his brilliant mind and clear foresight … [Wise] held undisputed supremacy as the foremost debater, foremost thinker and foremost public man in the life of New South Wales".
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- Born
- Feb 10, 1858
Petersham - Parents
- Nationality
- Australia
- Profession
- Education
- Rugby School
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- Died
- Sep 19, 1916
Kensington
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on July 23, 2013
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