Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Murchison, 12 March 1921–19 August 1952
Committees
- Chairman of Committees, August 1939–3 August 1945
Office
- Minister for Mines, Railways and Transport, 3 August 1945–1 April 1947
Historical Notes
- Father of the House, October 1948–August 1952
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Personal Information |
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19 August 1952 |
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Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia |
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Darwin Cemetery, Northern Territory, Australia |
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To WA in his early twenties |
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Miner |
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Mining, Malaya and Rhodesia
Labourer, Lawlers and later at Youanmi, 1910–1913
To Queen of the Hills mine, Meekatharra, 1913
Engine driver and amalgamator, Meekatharra until 1921 |
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Resident, Redcliffe during parliamentary career
Member, Douglas Social Credit Movement, 1930s
Visited NSW, 1941 to recruit skilled miners for WA
Known as ‘Lavender Bill’ because of his tastes in clothes |
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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.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. (Wife's record Kathleen Ellen Marshall) https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=4005bb57-031d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0 |
| Bibliography |
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Bulletin (Sydney), 9 May 1941.
Kalgoorlie Miner, 20 August 1952.
West Australian, 20 August 1952.
Western Australian Parliamentary Debates, vol. 131, p. 412–416. |