BROPHY, JAMES (1889-1969), public servant and community leader, was born on 26 September 1889 in South Melbourne, eldest child of Richard Brophy, labourer, and his wife Catherine, née Mackey, both from Ireland. Having been educated at St Patrick's Jesuit College, Melbourne, in 1906-07 Jim attended Carmelite College, Terenure, near Dublin, but decided against the priestly vocation and returned to Victoria. He gained first place in the July 1908 Commonwealth Public Service clerical examination and on 5 October joined the Department of Home Affairs. In 1912 he was admitted as a licentiate of the Incorporate Institute of Accountants, Victoria. Promoted and transferred to Sydney that year, by 1919 he was accountant in the Sub-Treasury, Queensland. On 14 January 1922 at St Brigid's Catholic Church, Red Hill, Brisbane, he married 20-year-old Elizabeth Constance Ridley (d.1965). They moved to Melbourne in 1927 and to Canberra in 1930.
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