Family background
Benjamin Penfold Wallington was born in 1878 in Emerald Hill (South Melbourne) in the Colony of Victoria, the son of immigrants John Samuel Wallington (1847–1925) and Charlotte Jennifer Stevenson (1853–1908).
In 1904, Wallington married Marion Jane Anderson McLean (1880–1943), and they had three children: John Penfold “Jack” (1905–1976), Marion Jane “May” (1906–1912) and Elizabeth Doris (1910–1990).
Wallington died at his residence in Furber Road, Centennial Park, on 31 March 1944. His funeral, conducted by Walter Carter Funeral Directors, was held on 3 April 1944 at Rookwood Church of England Cemetery.
Occupation & interests
Wallington variously worked as a shop assistant and as a produce and small goods merchant based in the 1920s at 332 Oxford Street, Paddington.
Community activity
In 1920, Wallington was appointed a Justice of the Peace in NSW.
Local government service
On 2 December 1922, Wallington was elected unopposed to the Municipality of Paddington (Upper Ward), representing the Australian Labor Party.
Wallington retired from the council at the December 1925 election, having moved to Bondi in the Waverley municipality.
References
Compiled and researched by Andrew Beveridge, 2025
The information about this alderman was compiled in collaboration with Woollahra Library and Information Service.
‘Deaths. Wallington’, Sydney Morning Herald, 3 April 1944, p. 8, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17876153
New South Wales Government Gazette, 147 (Supplement), p. 4746, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article224609821
‘Municipal Elections. Municipality of Paddington’, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 December 1922, p. 7, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16032080
‘The Municipal Elections. Notes on the Contest – Progress in Willoughby’, Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 1925, p. 6, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article245053059