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Electorates
- MLC Fremantle 27 June 1872–10 February 1880, 21 October 1884–21 October 1890
- MLA North Fremantle 5 December 1890–May 1895 (resigned)
Committees
- Member Select Committee Fremantle Harbour 1892
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Personal Information |
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30 December 1908 |
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Bristol, England, United Kingdom |
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Butcher and businessperson |
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Butcher and tanner at Fremantle in partnership with brother George
Shipowner and merchant, importing goods, trading as WS and G Pearse
Founder of Meka station at Murchison in 1874 and shareholder in Kimberley stations Oobagooma and Liveringa Stations 1881 |
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Fremantle Town Trust 1866, 1868–1871
Fremantle Municipal Council 1871–1874, chairman 1868–1872 |
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1875 president Fremantle Building Society
Treasurer and president Fremantle Mechanics’ Institute 1866
Retired to Bristol, England |
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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. 159. |
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The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, vol 3.
G. C. Bolton, 'Pearse, William Silas (1838–1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/pearse-william-silas-4381/text7131, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 11 January 2016.
Burke. Genealogical and Heraldic History of Colonial Gentry, Vol. 2, p. 194.
Ewers, JK. Western Gateway: 100 years of Local Government in Fremantle, Western Australia, p. 103–104.
West Australian Bulletin, 14 March 1888. |