High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG (22 April 1867–6 November 1936) was an Australian Commonwealth Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australia`s 17th longest serving federal Parliamentarian (33 years and one month). He was a member of every non-Australian Labor Party ministry from 1905 to 1926. He was a liberal protectionist, who believed in the extension of federal powers, but became increasingly opposed to the Australian Labor Party`s socialist agenda.