Philip McBride

Sir Philip Albert Martin McBride, KCMG, PC (18 June 1892 – 14 July 1982) was an Australian politician.

McBride was born at Burra, in the mid north of South Australia, the son of an early settler and well known pastoralist James McBride and his wife Louisa (née Lane), and was educated first at Burra Public School and then Prince Alfred College in Adelaide.

In the early years he was very much a hands-on man, involved in day-to-day matters at the sheep stations.

[5] As a backbencher, he advocated for increased assistance to farmers and lower tariffs, and was concerned with the interests of the wheat and wool industries, given that he represented one of the largest electorates in Australia.

[1][4] McBride was Assistant Minister for Commerce from April 1939 to September 1940, and resigned several directorships at the time of his promotion to avoid conflicts of interest.

[8] He returned to parliament for the Liberal Party at the 1946 general election, winning the House of Representatives seat of Wakefield.

[12] His great-grandson is the independent South Australian state parliamentarian Nick McBride, who quit the Liberal Party in 2023.