| 词条 | Walter Cresswell O'Reilly |
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|honorific-prefix = |name = Cresswell O'Reilly |honorific-suffix = |image = |imagesize = |caption = | office = Chief Commonwealth Film Censor |term_start = November 1928 |term_end = June 1942 |predecessor = Robert Wallace |successor = J. O. Alexander |office1 = 10th Mayor of Ku-ring-gai |predecessor1 = George Christie |successor1 = Ernest Selby | deputy1 = Audley Hubert Brennan James Briton Ernest Selby |term_start1 = 19 March 1929 |term_end1 = 5 December 1933 |office2 = Alderman on Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council |term_start2 = 10 December 1928 |term_end2 = January 1935 |term_start3 = 12 November 1944 |term_end3 = 14 December 1948 |office4 = Councillor on Warringah Shire Council |predecessor4 = Frederick Latham |term_start4 = 14 November 1939 |term_end4 = 11 December 1941 |constituency4 = A Riding |birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1877|06|06}} |birth_place =Sydney, Colony of New South Wales |death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1954|12|20|1877|06|06}} |death_place = Pymble, New South Wales, Australia |spouse = Ethel Jane Vickery |children = |education = Newington College University of Sydney |religion = }} [Walter] Cresswell O'Reilly (6 June 1877 – 20 December 1954) was an Australian public servant who became Chief Commonwealth Film Censor. He "dominated and shaped Australian film censorship" and was able to "define appropriate mass entertainment" for nearly twenty years.[1] He was the founding president of the National Trust of Australia (NSW) and an early urban conservationist. Early lifeCresswell O'Reilly (he was always known by his second name) was born in New South Wales to an American physician and his Ballarat-born wife. He was educated at Newington College (1894–1896)[2] and the University of Sydney from where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1903.[3] He married Ethel Jane Vickery, a granddaughter of philanthropist Ebenezer Vickery,[4] in 1909. Army serviceDuring World War I he served with the Australian Imperial Force in France as a gunner and then as a warrant officer, class 1, with the Army Education Service. Public serviceBefore attending university, O'Reilly had been a junior clerk in the Department of Justice. After the war, he returned to the public service as an officer-in-charge in the justice branch of the Attorney-General's Department. In 1925 O'Reilly was nominated by the Methodist Church, the YMCA, and the Businessmen's Efficiency League as the senior Commonwealth film censor in Sydney. In this position he was de facto chief censor, as most films arrived in Australia through Sydney. Three years later he became chief Commonwealth censor and was reappointed annually until 1942 when he retired. As chief censor he introduced, in 1930, the classification system that graded films 'For General Exhibition' and 'Not Suitable for Children'.[5] Community serviceO'Reilly was a Wesleyan and served as a trustee of Pymble Methodist Church for over 50 years, and was a choirmaster, Sunday-school-superintendent and lay preacher. He was elected to Ku-ring-gai Municipal Council as an alderman and as mayor from 1929 until 1933. As an early conservationist he earned a reputation as the 'tree mayor' and was president of the State branch of the Australian Forest League and a member of the Forestry Advisory Council.[6] In 1945 he became the founding president of the New South Wales division of the National Trust of Australia. At Wesley College, University of Sydney he was a councillor and treasurer. Honours
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References1. ^Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 May 2008 {{S-start}}{{S-gov}}{{S-bef|before= Robert Wallace}}{{S-ttl| title= Chief Commonwealth Film Censor|years=1928{{spaced ndash}}1941}}{{S-aft| after=J. O. Alexander}}{{s-civ}}{{s-bef| before=George Christie}}{{s-ttl |title= Mayor of Ku-ring-gai | years =1929{{spaced ndash}}1933 }}{{s-aft|after=Ernest Selby}}{{S-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Oreilly, Walter Cresswell}}2. ^Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999) pp147 3. ^Alumni Sidneienses. Retrieved 29 May 2008 4. ^Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 29 May 2008 5. ^OFLC Annual Reports Extracts 1925–1963. Retrieved 29 May 2008 6. ^Ku-ring-gai Council. Retrieved 29 May 2008 7. ^National Library of Australia. Retrieved 29 May 2008 9 : 1877 births|1954 deaths|Australian Methodists|University of Sydney alumni|People educated at Newington College|Wesleyan Methodists|20th-century Methodists|Shire Presidents and Mayors of Ku-ring-gai|New South Wales local government politicians |
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