Parliamentary Service |
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Independent National 1918
Ministerial Country Party 1923–1924 then National |
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22 May 1918 |
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Central |
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Electorates
- MLC Central Province 22 May 1918–21 May 1924
- Contested Central Province 10 May 1924, 8 May 1926
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1924 |
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Personal Information |
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13 January 1859 |
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Narra Tarra Station near Geraldton, Western Australia |
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21 March 1943 |
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Government Hospital, Geraldton, Western Australia |
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Narra Tarra Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of John, pastoralist, sheep farmer, and Caroline Greer |
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Married 9 May 1892, Central Wesleyan Church, Greenough to Hannah Maley (born 28 April 1865), daughter of John Stephen and Elizabeth Kniest Waldeck, sister of Charles Crowther Maley and Henry Kennedy Maley
Widowed 10 July 1905
Children: one son and one daughter |
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Church of England |
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Farmer and bank inspector |
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Inspector of sheep, Champion Bay circa 1878–1888
By 1892 sheep farmer at Narra Tarra
1901 manager of Wurarga Station east of Mullewa
1903 lands inspector
November 1904 inspector for Agricultural Bank, Geraldton district, later administered Industries Assistance Act
After 1924 farmed in partnership with son at Waggrakine near Geraldton |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 139.
Erickson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, vol 3.
Government Gazette (1878–1888)
Henn, PU. Genealogical Notes.
Information from Mr JS Mills, Waggrakine.
West Australian, 16 May 1918. |
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