Glen Sheil was an amateur tennis player who competed at the Australian Championships in the 1940s and 1950s.
13 Facts About Glen Sheil
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Glen Sheil's father was a civil engineer who worked in several states and was appointed general manager of Queensland's Mount Morgan Mine in 1950.
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Glen Sheil was the Country Party candidate at the 1967 Capricornia by-election.
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Glen Sheil went on to study medicine at the University of Queensland, graduating MBBS in 1954.
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Glen Sheil subsequently purchased the Fermoy Private Hospital, a small private hospital which was expanded to include a medical centre and pharmacy.
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Glen Sheil was elected to the Senate at the 1974 election, taking his seat immediately on 18 May because the election followed a double dissolution.
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Glen Sheil was then sworn into the Federal Executive Council, the body that formally advises the Governor-General on governmental matters.
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The next morning a story appeared in the Melbourne Sun News Pictorial where Glen Sheil professed his support for apartheid.
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Glen Sheil was never a minister at all, but he was a member of the Executive Council for two days.
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Glen Sheil became the only person to be announced in a Ministry who never made it as a minister.
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Glen Sheil was defeated by Liberal Party candidate Peter White.
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Glen Sheil was defeated at the 1990 election, his term expiring on 30 June 1990.
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Glen Sheil was widowed in 1989 and remarried in 1991 to Elizabeth Anderson, the daughter of former Country MP Charles Anderson.