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- MLA Dundas 7 May 1897–26 April 1901
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Personal Information |
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22 July 1870 |
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Westmeath, Ireland |
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1 March 1945 |
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Braamfontein Crematorium, Johannesburg, South Africa |
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To Australia 1884
To Western Australia 1893 |
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Married probably in South Africa
No children |
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Not stated |
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Ran away from school
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Farmer |
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Cattle droving and stockman, Queensland
Opal mining North Queensland
Prospecting and gold mining Coolgardie
Opened up farming on islands at Esperance
1900 absent from Western Australian Parliament on military service in South Africa by leave
Served in 2nd Australian Contingent during Boer War, rose to rank of Sergeant
Discharged in South Africa 29 March 1901
Subsequently apparently farmed in Barberton area, Transvaal |
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After his election fought for the development of Esperance as a port for the goldfields
Retired to Craighall Park, Johannesburg
Member of Weld Club |
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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. 51.
Burke’s Peerage, (1959) Longford
Burke’s Landed Gentry in Ireland, (1912)
Connolly of Castletown
Department of Home Affairs, Republic of South Africa
Information Sir Connolly Abel Smith (nephew)
Kimberly, p. 157–158. |
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