Ted Kinsella

Edward Parnell Kinsella CBE (10 June 1893 – 20 December 1967) was an Australian politician and judge.

He was born in Glen Innes to Patrick Kinsella and Mary Jane, née Sharman.

During World War I he served in the 2nd, 54th and 56th Battalions, seeing action at Gallipoli and Flanders and rising to the rank of lieutenant.

After the war Kinsella returned to the Lands Department and studied law part-time at the University of Sydney, graduating with his Bachelor of Law in 1927, in which year he was called to the Bar.

In 1930 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Georges River, but he was defeated in 1932.