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Electorates
- MLC North-East* Province 14 May 1900–21 May 1906
- MLC Metropolitan Province 22 May 1906–21 May 1918
- Contested Metropolitan Province 11 May 1918
Office
- Minister for Lands 27 May–21 November 1901
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Personal Information |
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20 January 1869 |
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Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
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19 March 1922 |
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Cottesloe, Western Australia |
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Walebing Cemetery, Moora, WA |
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1894 |
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Son of William, restaurant keeper, and Ann Matilda Merrell |
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Married 9 June 1886, St Mary's Church, Morwell, Victoria to Agnes Donaldson (born circa 1863), daughter of David and Annie Thompson
Children: one son and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Geelong Grammar School 1878–1882
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Real estate agent |
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Farmed at Bendigo
Commission agent in Morwell by 1886
Stock and station agent Geelong
1894 mining for two years, Western Australia
Developed New Victoria Mine near Coolgardie
1896 managing director Victoria Hotel, Coolgardie
1900 founded Perth office as land agent and sworn valuator
Farming property in south-west |
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Traralgon Shire Council, Victoria 1883–1886, Geelong Municipal Council 1886–1894
Mayor of Coolgardie, two terms 1899–1903 |
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1882–1886 in Gippsland, Victoria
To Guildford, WA by 1898 |
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JS Battye (ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Western Australia, 2 vols, Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham, 1912–13, p. 333–34.
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. 184.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia. Anon. P.H.W. Thiel: Perth, 1901, p. 27.
West Australian, 15 May 1912. |
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