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Electorates
- MLA North Murchison 13 October 1899 and again 24 October (by-election after resignation)–10 December 1901
- Contested Central Province 17 January 1895 (by-election), North Murchison 3 May 1897, 10 December 1901 (ministry by-election)
Office
- Attorney-General 21 November–23 December 1901, defeated at ministry by-election
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Personal Information |
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1863 (baptised 4 October), Kings County Ireland |
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Ireland |
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27 November 1902 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived in WA 1889 |
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Son of Michael J, medical practitioner, and Elizabeth (Julia?) Humphrys |
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Married 21 November 1891, York to Amy Susanna Blackwood Campbell (nee Monger) (born 1 April 1867), widow of Archibald Campbell (married 1886), daughter of John Henry and Henrietta Joaquina
Children: one daughter
Widowed 11 May 1900 |
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Catholic |
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Educated St Stanislaus Jesuit College and Trinity College, Dublin
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Lawyer |
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Worked with John Horgan
WA Bar 1890
Established firm of Horgan and Moorhead 1890–1895, and Moorhead and Northmore 1896
1893 solicitor for Perth City and several large firms
1900 QC
Judge Supreme Court 24 April–27 November 1902 |
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President Arbitration Court
Member of Perth Hospital Board, 1895
Central Board of Health and Aborigines Protection Board
Noted orator
Suffered from locomotor ataxia after 1897
1886 Rugby international for Ireland |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 145.
Erickson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, vol 3.
Morning Herald, 31 October, 27 November 1902.
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 33. |
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