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Electorates
- MLA Nelson 15 February 1936–18 March 1939
- Contested Nelson 18 March 1939
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Personal Information |
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3 August 1885 |
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Balbarrup near Manjimup, Western Australia |
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19 April 1961 |
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Warren District Hospital, Manjimup, Western Australia |
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Manjimup Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Abraham Benjamin Clarence, farmer and orchardist, and Mary Needes |
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Married 13 April 1909, Dingup Church, Balbarrup to Agnes Helen Giblett, daughter of Thomas and Maria Agnes Moulton
Children: two sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated privately
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Farmer, bank inspector, land valuer and shire clerk |
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Farmer in Manjimup district pre World War I, also first secretary and engineer Warren Road Board (later with Manjimup Road Board) 1908–1916
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 12 August 1916, served in France with 1st Australian General Hospital
Lance Corporal
Discharged 28 August 1919
Agricultural Bank inspector 1919–1923
Federal land land valuer 1923–1926
Secretary Manjimup Road Board 1926–October 1936
After leaving Parliament farmed at Manjimup with sons
Acted as secretary Manjimup Road Board June 1942–July 1946 |
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Manjimup Road Board 4 November 1939–March 1942 |
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Prominent in Manjimup community affairs especially assisting migrants
1954 founded Dunreath Cottage Scheme for the Aged |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 73. |
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