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Electorates
- MLA Guildford 29 September 1917–22 March 1924
- Contested Guildford 22 March 1924, Metropolitan–Suburban Province 10 May 1924, 8 May 1926, Guildford–Midland 13 March 1948 (by-election)
Office
- Selected for post of Honourable Minister 8 April 1919 but Government resigned 17 April 1919
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Personal Information |
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29 May 1880 |
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Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
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16 July 1954 |
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Claremont, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1899 |
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Joseph Edward, coalminer and clerk, and Elizabeth Olivia Morgan |
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Married 21 May 1903, St Pauls Church, Beaconsfield to Mary Theresa Brown (born India circa 1881), daughter of Hugh and Margaret Frances Ward
Children: seven sons and three daughters
Widowed 6 June 1952 |
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Church of England |
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Boarding school Pontypridd, Glamorgan, Wales
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Railway worker |
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1892–1899 coal miner South Wales
Worked as a labourer and on railways as boilermaker's assistant and then boilermaker by 1911 |
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West Guildford Road Board from March 1907 |
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Took part in formation of Iron and Steel Workers’ Assistants Union, amalgamated with Amalgamated Society of Railway Engineers
1911 left railways became union official, by 1916 secretary Midland Railways Employees Union
By 1922 secretary Brickyard and Pottery Works Employees Union |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930, Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 60. |
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