Robert Sproule
Robert Sproule was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born in Omagh in County Tyrone to farmer William Sproule and Mary Ann Clisdell. He was a junior clerk in the Justice Department, and studied at the University of Sydney, receiving his Bachelor of Arts in 1907 and a Bachelor of Law in 1913. On 15 March 1911 he married Effie Stevenson. He was a court reporter from 1912 to 1919, and was called to the bar in 1913. In 1927 he was admitted as a solicitor, and worked with Richard Meagher. From 1920 to 1934 he was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council; he was Solicitor General from 1920 to 1922. Sproule died at Parramatta in 1948.
