17 Facts About Stanley Argyle

Sir Stanley Seymour Argyle KBE, MRCS, LRCP, was an Australian radiologist and politician.

Stanley Argyle served as premier of Victoria from 1932 to 1935 and was the state leader of the Nationalist Party and United Australia Party from 1930 until his death in 1940.

Stanley Argyle went on to study bacteriology at King's College London.

Stanley Argyle was a member of the Kew City Council from 1898 to 1905 and was mayor from in 1903 to 1905.

Stanley Argyle returned to Australia in 1917 with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel and resumed his medical practice at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne.

Stanley Argyle invested in the pasteurization of milk and citrus growing.

In 1920, Stanley Argyle was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the seat of Toorak as an independent Nationalist.

When McPherson resigned as leader of the Nationalist Party, Stanley Argyle was chosen to succeed him and, in 1931, the party was renamed the United Australia Party.

Stanley Argyle led the opposition to Ned Hogan's minority Labor Party government, which was unable to cope with the effects of the Great Depression and was heavily defeated at the May 1932 elections.

Stanley Argyle formed a coalition government with the Country Party, led by Allan and later by Albert Dunstan.

Stanley Argyle was lucky in that the economy began to improve from 1932, and the unemployment rate fell from 27 percent in 1932 to 20 percent in 1934 and 14 percent in 1935.

Stanley Argyle fought the March 1935 election with an improving economy and a record of sound, if unimaginative, management.

Henry Bolte, later Victoria's longest-serving Premier, was 27 in 1935, and Dunstan's betrayal of Stanley Argyle lay behind his lifelong intense dislike of the Country Party, whom he called "political prostitutes".

Stanley Argyle remained in politics as Leader of the Opposition until his death in 1940.

Stanley Argyle married Violet Ellen Jessie Lewis of "Spring Grove", Cotham Road, Kew at Holy Trinity Church, Kew on 24 January 1895.

Stanley Argyle died in Perth in 1963 at the age of 94.

Stanley Argyle was a cousin of the British judge Michael Argyle.