Neville Wran

Neville Wran
Wran c. 1971
Chairman of the CSIRO
In office
5 December 1986 – 4 December 1991
Preceded byNorman Boardman
Succeeded byAdrienne Clarke
35th Premier of New South Wales
Elections: 1976, 1978, 1981, 1984
In office
14 May 1976 – 4 July 1986
MonarchElizabeth II
Governor
Deputy
Preceded bySir Eric Willis
Succeeded byBarrie Unsworth
National President of the Labor Party
In office
8 September 1980 – 3 July 1986
Preceded byNeil Batt
Succeeded byMick Young
Member of the New South Wales Parliament
for Bass Hill
In office
17 November 1973 – 4 July 1986
Preceded byClarrie Earl
Succeeded byMichael Owen
Personal details
Born
Neville Kenneth Wran

(1926-10-11)11 October 1926
Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Died20 April 2014(2014-04-20) (aged 87)
Elizabeth Bay, New South Wales, Australia
Political partyAustralian Labor Party
Spouses
  • Marcia Oliver (m. 1946–76; divorced)
  • Jill Hickson (m. 1976–2014; his death)
Children4
OccupationLawyer
NicknameNifty[1]

Neville Kenneth Wran, AC, CNZM, QC (11 October 1926 – 20 April 2014) was an Australian politician who was the Premier of New South Wales from 1976 to 1986. He was the national president of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) from 1980[2] to 1986 and chairman of both the Lionel Murphy Foundation and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) from 1986 to 1991.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference nifty was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Joy at ALP summit". The Canberra Times. 9 September 1980. p. 1 – via Trove.