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Thomas Rainsford (Tom) Bavin was a lawyer and politician. Bavin was appointed Edmund Barton’s private secretary in 1901 and served both Barton and Alfred Deakin. He was Deakin’s co-correspondent to the London Morning Post (1907-11). Bavin later entered state politics and was premier of New South Wales (1927-30).

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McCarthy, John. Bavin, Sir Thomas Rainsford (Tom) (1874-1941), Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Published in hard copy 1979, accessed online 4 July 2013.