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Alfred (Alf) Thomas Chandler (3 June 1852 – 17 October 1941) was a journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. He was prominent in the Western Australian secession movement. ==History== Chandler was born in Geelong, Victoria, and began his journalistic career on ''The Hamilton Spectator''. He moved to Adelaide, where he found employment with both daily papers: the ''South Australian Register'', then ''The Advertiser''. He was, in 1889, with H. O. Evans, J. M. Black, and J. R. Powell, a member of the House of Assembly's first ''Hansard'' staff. While working at ''The Advertiser'' he published two books of verse: ''A Bush Idyl'' and ''Songs of the Sunland''. He joined Harry Evans as co-editor of ''Quiz'', a satirical weekly, to which he also regularly contributed examples of his poetry. He left the partnership (of, by then, ''Quiz and The Lantern'') on 31 August 1894, and left for Coolgardie, where he worked on J. M. Smith's weekly ''Goldfield Courier'' and its sister daily, the ''Golden Age''.〔Wilde, W. H. et al, eds. ''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' 2nd ed. 1985 Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553381 X〕 In 1896 he was elected secretary to the Coolgardie Stock Exchange and the Coolgardie Railway League. He was next editor of the ''Coolgardie Miner'', and gained a great deal of knowledge on the subject of mining, and served as John Kirwan's Coolgardie secretary. In 1905 he left the ''Miner'' for the position of secretary to the North End Gold Mining Company Ltd. Around 1911 he moved to Perth, where he joined the staff of ''The Sunday Times'' and around 1920 was promoted to editor, succeeding J. E. Webb, who left for a position with ''The Bulletin''. He retired around 1925, but continued contributing to the ''Sunday Times'' and other journals.〔 Around 1919 he joined the newspaper's owner, James MacCallum Smith, in a campaign to gain independence from the other States of Australia, founding the Secession League, and was active in the later Dominion League of Western Australia, and its president when a secession petition was tabled in the House of Commons. In 1938 he was granted a Commonwealth Literary Pension of £1 a week.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred Thomas Chandler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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