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MLC |
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10 February 1880 |
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Fremantle |
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Electorates
- MLC Fremantle 10 February 1880–21 October 1884
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1884 |
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Personal Information |
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26 July 1846 |
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Eydon, Brackley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom |
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20 April 1885 |
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Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Arrived WA 1853 with parents |
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Son of John, baker, and Mary Ann Phipps and brother of John Joseph Higham |
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Married 27 April 1880, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Alice (born 4 September 1852), daughter of George Glyde and Alice (nee Draper), later wife of William Silas Pearse
Children: three sons and one daughter |
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Congregational |
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1859 left school to help widowed mother carry on small business
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Businessperson |
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Circa 1870 partner in firm
Chairman Fremantle Building Society 1875–1885 |
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Fremantle Town Council 1872–1876, 1878–1882; chairman 1883
Fremantle Road Board chairman 1873 |
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1873 member Fremantle Chamber of Commerce
Member Fremantle Board of Education 1876
Involved in Volunteer Movement |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 14.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume II, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
Inquirer, 22 April, 6 May 1885.
West Australian, 22 April 1885. |
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