announced his intention of retiring from Parliament at the next election, he resigned from the Liberal Party on 11 October 1977, citing the government's handling of the economy and industrial relations. He stood for the Senate in New South Wales at the December 1977 election, polling 2.1 per cent of the vote. Later he was active in the Grey Power movement, and stood again for the Senate as a Grey Power candidate at the 1984 election; again, he did badly. Wentworth's last appearance in Australian politics was in April 1995, when he contested the by-election in the seat of Wentworth (which was named after his great-grandfather) caused by the resignation of Dr John Hewson. In the absence of a Labor candidate, he polled 18 per cent of the vote, 52 years after he first contested the seat in 1943. During his time in the House of Representatives, Wentworth voted against his party more often than any other Representative in Australian history. Honours In 1993, he was appointed an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours for "service to the Australian Parliament, particularly in relation to Aboriginal rights and to the standardisation of inter-state rail gauges". Later life, death and family He retired to north Queensland, from where he continued to write pamphlets and newspaper articles until his death in Sydney in 2003 at the age of 95. He was survived by his wife Barbara, and four children. The prominent journalist Mungo MacCallum is his nephew. Publications Referendum and Reform: The Upper House in New South Wales Deaton & Spencer, Sydney, 1933 Demand for defence: being a plan to keep Australia white and free Sydney, W.C. Wentworth, 1939 Labor, Socialism and Soviets: the Trend to Totalitarianism in Australia: The Place of Bank Nationalisation in the Plan Compress Printing Limited, Sydney, 1947 Ancestry See also Political families of Australia: Wentworth/Hill/Griffiths/Scott/Cooper family Wentworth family References 1907 births 2003 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford Officers of the Order of Australia Australian anti-communists Australian economists Liberal Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Australia Independent members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Mackellar Members of the Australian House of Representatives Politicians from Sydney 20th-century Australian politicians