Albert Edward Victor Whitford
1877 — 29 January 1924
Albert Edward Victor Whitford (15‑6‑40)
Whitford was born in 1877 in Woolwich, England, son of Charles Whitford and Dora Kelly. He married Ethel Scott in Sydney and had two sons and two daughters. Arriving in Queensland in 1910, he worked as a tailor in Childers. Whitford was the MLA for Burrum from March 1918 to October 1920. He was murdered in Albert Square on 29 January 1924 by returned serviceman, James William Laydon.