The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Handyside, Hon. Andrew Dodds

by Philip Mennell

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Handyside, Hon. Andrew Dodds, M.P., Commissioner of Public Works, South Australia, has represented the Albert district in the Legislative Assembly of that colony since 1887. In June 1892 he accepted the post of Commissioner of Public Works in the Holder Government.

Handyside, Hon. Andrew Dods, M.P. (p. 213). Mr. Handyside was born in East Lothian in 1835. He emigrated to Victoria in 1853, and was engaged in pastoral pursuits in that colony and New South Wales until 1868, when he settled in South Australia.