The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Suttor, Hon. William Henry
Suttor, Hon. William Henry, M.L.C., late Vice-President of the Executive Council, New South Wales, is the eldest son of the late William Henry Suttor, of Bathurst, N.S.W., by his marriage with Charlotte Augusta Anne (Francis), and was born at Brucedale, near Bathurst, on Nov. 14th, 1834. He was educated under Dr. Woolls at Parramatta, and was returned to the Legislative Assembly for East Macquarie, which had previously been represented by his father and uncle, in Jan. 1875. He was re-elected in 1877, and was Minister of Mines in the Farnell Administration from December of that year till Dec. 1878. He was nominated to the Upper House in 1880, and on the return to power of Sir Henry Parkes in May 1889 accepted a seat in the Ministry as Vice-President of the Executive Council, and representative of the Government in the Legislative Council. This post he held till the defeat of the Ministry in Oct 1891. Mr. Suttor was appointed one of the representatives of New South Wales at the Federation Convention held in Sydney in March 1891. Mr. Suttor, who is captain of the Bathurst Reserve Rifle Company, was married at Kelso, near Bathurst, on March 20th, 1862, to Adelaide Agnes Nanietta, daughter of Major Bowler, of the 80th Regiment. He is author of "Australian Stories Retold and Sketches of Country Life" (Whalan, Bathurst, 1887).