Death
Edward St John died on 24 October 1994. His funeral was held in St Luke's Anglican Church, Mosman. The address was given by Justice Michael Kirby, who recalled St John's relationship to Oliver Cromwell:
In his blood, as he told the House of Representatives in 1967, were the genes of Oliver St John who defended John Hampden when he refused to pay ship money to King Charles I. Oliver married into the Cromwell family.
An obituary A crusader who put his party second was published in The Sydney Morning Herald on 26 October 1994. An obituary Maverick Liberal caused a storm, by Mungo MacCallum, was published in The Australian on 1 November 1994.
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