'Albert Augustine Edwards (1888-1963), hotelier, philanthropist and politician, was born on 6 November 1888 in the West End of Adelaide; no record of his birth has been found, but his mother was a Mrs Miller. He attended St Joseph's Catholic primary school before working on stalls at the city's markets and racecourses; from 1915 he ran a tea-room. He became secretary of the West Adelaide Democratic Club and of the Adelaide Electorate Committee of the United Labor Party, and a controversial official of the West Adelaide II Football Club.' (ADB : Edwards, Albert Augustine (1888–1963)
