Editing Arthur Fadden (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Arthur Fadden and family.jpg|thumb|right|Fadden with his wife Ilma and daughter Betty at a ball in 1951]]
On 27 December 1916, Fadden married Ilma Nita Thornber (2 April 1895 – 14 May 1987), who worked as a milliner.<ref>[http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/fadden/spouse.aspx Australia's PMs > Arthur Fadden > Ilma Fadden] - National Archives of  Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2018.</ref> Her father James Thornber and brother-in-law George Fay both served periods as [[City of Mackay#List of mayors|mayor of Mackay]].<ref>[http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/mayors/022_thornber.html James Henry Thornber] - Mayors of Mackay. Retrieved 22 March 2018.</ref><ref>[http://www.mackayhistory.org/research/mayors/033_fay_gb.html George Bergin Fay] - Mayors of Mackay. Retrieved 22 March 2018.</ref> The couple had four children together – Gordon, John, Mavis, and Betty.<ref>[http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/fadden/fast-facts.aspx Fast facts: Arthur Fadden] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190311150759/http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/primeministers/fadden/fast-facts.aspx |date=11 March 2019 }} - National Archives of  Australia. Retrieved 22 March 2018.</ref> His oldest son Gordon predeceased him, dying in 1956 at the age of 34.{{sfn|Arklay|2010|p=251}} Arthur Fadden was initiated as a Freemason in Lodge Caledonia, No. 737 S.C. (Mackay, Qld), on 29 July 1915. After being elected to the Australian Parliament on 19 December 1936, he joined Lamington Lodge, No. 110 U.G.L.Q.(Brisbane, Qld), on 4 February 1937.  Bro. Sir Arthur Fadden remained a member of Lamington Lodge, No. 110 U.G.L.Q., until he resigned in March 1973, a month before his passing.<ref><></McInnes, Dianne.  Lamington Lodge: 100 Years of Freemasonry, 1996.</ref>

Arthur Fadden was once a member of an acting group in Mackay called the "Nigger Minstrel Troupe".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/170528634 | title=MACKAY GREETS FAMOUS SON | date=July 21, 1941 | publisher=[[Daily Mercury]] | page=4 | quote=Mr. Fadden recalled his associations with the old Nigger Minstrel Troupe... | access-date=November 2, 2021 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/171447688 | title=MR. FADDEN RECALLS WALKERSTON "UNIVERSITY" | date=December 20, 1948 | publisher=[[Daily Mercury]] | page=2 | quote=He noted with regret that the stage formerly used by the nigger minstrel troupe, in which he made his first appearance as a public entertainer, had been removed.| access-date=November 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://twistedhistory.net.au/2016/07/02/nigger-minstrel-troupe-prime-minister-arthur-fadden | title=Nigger Minstrel Troupe – Prime Minister Arthur Fadden | date=July 2, 2016 | website=Twisted History | access-date=November 2, 2021 }}</ref>