Sir Charles Graham Waddell KBE (7 January 1877 – 7 April 1960) was an Australian politician.
He was born in Orange to bank manager Colonel George Walker Waddell and Fanny Elizabeth Sharpe.[1][2] He attended Sydney Grammar School and worked as a bookkeeper and overseer near Adelong before becoming a grazier at Bethungra. He was president of the Graziers' Association from 1925 to 1928 and chairman of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council from 1925 to 1935.[3] In 1927 he was knighted.[4]
In 1936 he was elected to a 12 year term as a Country Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Council,[5] serving from 1937 until 1949.[6]
Waddell died at Potts Point in 1960 (aged 83).[3]
His uncle Thomas Waddell was also a member of Legislative Assembly and briefly Premier,[7] and his cousin John Waddell was the member for Waverley in the Legislative Assembly from 1932 until 1939.[1]
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