Edward Close Jr.
Edward Charles Close was an Australian politician.
He was born at Morpeth to Sophia Susannah Palmer and Edward Charles Close, who was a British soldier and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was a pastoralist and landowner, and on 24 July 1847 married Louisa Slade Platt, with whom he had four children. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Morpeth; he retired in 1860, returned in 1862, and retired again in 1864. Close died at St Leonards in 1887.
