Frederick Birrell

[a] She and her children were helped by (later Sir) Robert Kyffin Thomas, general manager of the South Australian Register, and Frederick later gained employment as a printer with The Register and in 1892 became a member of the Typographical Society of South Australia.

A few years later he started work at the Labor Party newspaper, The Herald, as a linotype operator.

[1] Birrell represented the South Australian House of Assembly seat of North Adelaide from 1921 to 1933 for the Labor Party.

[2] Birrell married Ellen Thomas, a machinist, at College Park on 15 October 1903.

Family relationship to S.A. unionist and MHR Frederick Ronald Birrell (1913–1985), if any, has not been found.