Sydney Charles Edgar Herring (1881-1951)

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Birth:	8 October 1881 Gladesville, New South Wales, Australia Ω
Death:	27 May 1951 Killara, New South Wales, Australia ¶
Father:	Gerard Edgar Herring (1835-1915)
Mother:	Caroline Estella de Lange (c1852-1935)
Spouse / partner:	Florence Elizabeth Murray-Prior (1879-1957)
Wedding:	17 August 1910 New South Wales, Australia ₪
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Biography

Sydney Charles Edgar Herring was born 8 October 1881 in Gladesville, New South Wales, Australia to Gerard Edgar Herring (1835-1915) and Caroline Estella de Lange (c1852-1935) and died 27 May 1951 Killara, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes. He married Florence Elizabeth Murray-Prior (1879-1957) 17 August 1910 in New South Wales, Australia.

Children

Offspring of Sydney Charles Edgar Herring and Florence Elizabeth Murray-Prior (1879-1957)
Name	Birth	Death	Joined with
Diana Ruth Florette Herring (1911-1993)

Obituary

Brigr.-Gen. S. C. E. Herring Dead

The former commander of the N.S.W. Volunteer Defence Corps. Brigadier-General Sydney Charles Edgar Herring, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D., Croix de Guerre, died suddenly at his Killara home late on Sunday night after a heart attack.

Brigadier Herring, who was 69, is survived by a widow and daughter, Diana (Mrs. F. E. Fleming, of Canberra).

After a service at St. John's Church of England, Gordon, at 11 a.m. to-morrow, he will be given a military funeral to the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.

Brigadier Herring was a former secretarv of the N.S.W. Golf Club and an estate agent. He was a councillor of the Royal Empire Society and a vice-president of the Millions Club.

The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1951, page 3

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‡ General

Anna Katzmann, 'Herring, Sydney Charles Edgar (1881–1951)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/herring-sydney-charles-edgar-6651/text11461, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 5 May 2015. https://www.aif.adfa.edu.au/showPerson?pid=135599

Ω Birth

BDM Index ref for birth: 14224/1881 HERRING.—October 8, at her residence, Gladesville, Mrs. Gerard Herring, of a son. The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 October 1881, page 1

₪ Wedding

HERRING—MURRAY-PRIOR.—August 17, at Kuranda, Bay-road, by the Rev. J. H. Best, Sydney, Charles Edgar, third son of Gerard E. Herring, of Bracondale, Gladesville, to Florette, daughter of the late T. de M. Murray-Prior, of Marroon, Queensland. The Sydney Morning Herald, 27 August 1910, page 12

¶ Death

HERRING, Sydney Charles Edgar, Brigadier-General, C.M.G., D.S.O.—May 27, 1951, at his residence, Bracondale, Northcote Avenue, Killara, loved husband of Florence and father of Diana, aged 69 years. The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 May 1951, page 18