Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor until 1917
Then National |
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24 June 1904 |
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Mount Leonora |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Mt Leonora, 24 June 1904–2 November 1906 (resigned)
- Contested Geraldton, 18 March 1939
Office
- Minister for Works, 7 June–August 1905
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Senator, 1 July 1907 (elected November 1906)–30 June 1938
- Contested Senate, 23 October 1937
Office
- Minister for Works and Railways, November 1916–February 1917
- President of the Senate, August 1932–June 1938
Committees
- Vice-Chairman, Public Works Committee, October 1914–November 1916, member July 1923–June 1926
- Senate Committee on Committee System, 1929–1930
Royal Commissions
- Member, Royal Commission Fruit Industry, 1912–1914
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Personal Information |
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24 May 1867 |
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Skeark, Newcastle County, Meath, Ireland |
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15 January 1944 |
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Mount Lawley, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia.
Roman Catholic Area, BA Section, 0454 grave site |
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Son of Michael, farmer, and Bridget Cahill |
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Married (1) 21 November 1901, All Hallow’s Church, Boulder to Annie Josephine Cleary (born circa 1871 and died 18 May 1931), daughter of Michael and Mary Bourke
Widowed 8 May 1931
Children: two sons and two daughters
Married (2) 1 May 1933, St Matthew’s Church, Narrogin to Mary Brown (born circa March 1886 and died 7 August 1959), daughter of Michael and Elizabeth White
No children |
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Catholic |
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Educated Cormeen National School and Ballieborough Model School, Cavan
Marine Engineers Certificate
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Engine driver |
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Worked on father’s farm for three years
Went to Queensland and Croydon gold rush, 1886
Stoker on coastal and island ships for seven years, from Port Darwin
Engineer, Fijian sugar plantation
On gold mines in Kalgoorlie from 1897
Founder and general secretary, Goldfields Engine Drivers Association, 1897–1904, argued cases before arbitration court
Subsequently farmed wheat property with his brother at Three Springs |
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Member, Boulder City Council, 1901–1904 |
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Won Royal Humane Society award for life saving attempt in shark infested waters
Chairman, River Murray Commission 1916
Published with H Gregory, Report on the possibilities of settling immigrants on lands in Western Australia (Melbourne 1922)
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website records his place of death as Three Springs |
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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. 125.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 5 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=cf5e3c20-791d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c2d3 |
Bibliography |
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Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 306–307.
David Black, 'Lynch, Patrick Joseph (Paddy) (1867–1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lynch-patrick-joseph-paddy-7271/text12601, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 23 December 2015.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 10 October 1916.
Punch (Melbourne), 23 November 1916.
Rydon, Joan. A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, 1901-1972.
West Australian, 30 October 1905, 16 January 1941. |