Members’ biographical register

Hon Thomas Brimage

House

MLC

Party

Date first elected

5 September 1900

Year Retired/Resigned

1912

Electorate(s)

South

Inaugural Speech

Brimage, Thomas Frederick Outridge, Inaugural Speech.pdf

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC South Province 5 September 1900–21 May 1906
MLC North-East Province 22 May 1906–21 May 1912
Contested East Province 14 May 1912

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

25 May 1915

Cause of death

Place of death

Hordern Hotel, Narrogin, Western Australia

Cemetery

Narrogin Cemetery, WA

Arrived in WA

1894 to WA

Occupation

Engineer and manager

Employment History

Entered engineering branch of South Australian Government Railways, on completion of course retained as mechanical draughtsman
Set up as consulting engineer Coolgardie
1895 land agent and sharebroker Kalgoorlie, extended to Perth 1900
General manager Hannan’s Great Northern Hotel

Local Government

East Coolgardie later Kalgoorlie Council Road Board member 1896–1899, chairman 1899

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

1875 to South Australia
Vice-president Mine Managers’ Institute of WA
Director Kalgoorlie Prospecting Gold Mining Co
Member Perth Stock Exchange
1900 Justice of the Peace

References

JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, vol. I, p. 334–35. D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 36.
WB Kimberly, History of West Australia. A narrative of her past, together with biographies of her leading men, FW Niven and Co, Melbourne, 1897, p. 208–9.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 23.
West Australian, 27 May 1915.

Bibliography

Further Information