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Electorates
- MLA Cockburn Sound 24 April 1901–June 1904
- Contested Beverley 27 October 1905
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Personal Information |
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1 January 1860 |
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Dunbeath, Caithness, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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13 May 1938 |
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Dunbeath, East Beverley, Western Australia |
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Beverley Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1892 to WA |
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Son of James, farmer, and Annie Grant |
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Married (1) 27 May 1887, Presbyterian Church, Newtown, NSW to Minnie Ellen McLeod (born circa 1865), daughter of Donald and Mary Ellen Daly
Widowed 13 May 1920
Children: three sons and six daughters
Married (2) 24 June 1921, Edinburgh, Scotland to Lucy Murray McDonald (born circa 1883), daughter of William and Eliza Bannerman
Widowed 28 September 1934
No children |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated locally in Scotland
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Storekeeper |
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Established store at Kurrajong, New South Wales
Started a business in Fremantle
After 1904 became a farmer at Beverley |
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East Fremantle Municipal Council
Mayor 1900–1901 |
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To NSW on emigrant ship Netbudda
Justice of the Peace
Elder of Presbyterian Church |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 127.
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 33, 458, 499. |
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