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Country Party |
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19 May 1917 |
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South-East |
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Electorates
- MLC South-East Province, 19 May 1917 (by-election)–9 August 1931
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1931 |
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Personal Information |
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29 July 1875 |
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Prahran, Victoria, Australia |
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9 August 1931 |
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St John of God Hospital, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Wagin Cemetery, WA |
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1899 |
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Son of Andrew, compositor, printer and publisher, and Josephine Stuart Little |
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Married (1) 15 October 1900, St Albans Church, Elsternwick, Melbourne, Victoria to Maggie Russell Robertson, (born circa February 1874), daughter of William and Mary Hamilton
Children: four sons and two daughters
Widowed 23 April 1927
Married (2) 9 July 1929, St Albans Church, Highgate to Evelyn Ivy Piesse (nee Riley), (born circa 1889 and died 21 October 1977), widow of Charles Oxley Piesse, daughter of John Henry and Sarah Isabel Suding
No children |
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Church of England |
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Windsor Primary School, Victoria
Ballarat School of Mines, Wesley College, Melbourne
Queen's College, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Master of Civil Engineering (MCE) (Melbourne)
Glasgow University, FSCE (London) postgraduate student (1901) of economic geology
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Engineer and farmer |
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In charge of smelting, engineering and mining operations in South Africa, circa 1894, Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales by 1897
Owned woolgrowing property Solai, Wagin
Merino stud from 1924 |
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After visit in 1898 came to WA in 1899
Chairman of directors, Primary Newspaper Company
President, Wagin Agricultural Society
President, Wagin branch of Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association, represented Primary Producers’ Association at Attended Empire Woolgrowing Conference, Melbourne, 1930
Helped establish Wagin Farmers Co-operative Company |
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Black, David, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One. 1890 -1930 revised edition, p. 187
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 15 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=052bf906-ec1c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c2d3 |
Bibliography |
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Dictionary of Western Australians 1829–1914, Vol. 5, The Golden Years 1889–1914, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1986.
West Australian, 10 August 1931. |