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Electorates
- MLC North District 31 December 1874–31 January 1878 (resigned)
- Nominated MLC 11 July 1885–9 June 1887 (resigned), 24 December 1890–7 August 1893
- Contested Geraldton, 27 October 1884
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Personal Information |
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Circa July 1830 |
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York, Western Australia |
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7 August 1893 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Bowes House, Northampton, WA |
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Son of Samuel Evans and Judith Kearnan and half brother of Richard Goldsmith Burges |
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Married 31 March 1860, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Augusta Henrietta Marcia Burdett (Maud) Wittenoom (born 20 October 1842 and died 1 March 1908), daughter of Rev John Burdett and Mary Watson Helms |
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Church of England |
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Educated locally
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Farmer |
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1859 took over Bowes station from his uncle William Burges to become a pastoralist
Circa 1872 acquired Yuin Station in Murchison, helped open stock route north to Gascoyne |
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Northampton Road Board 1871–1877 member and chairman
Geraldton Town Council 1891 member |
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1850s made several visits to North-West
Member Geraldton Agricultural Society
1863, Justice of the Peace
1890 member Geraldton Board of Education |
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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, 2010, p. 41
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE HON. THOMAS BURGES. (1893, August 18). Victorian Express (Geraldton, WA : 1878 - 1894), p. 3. Retrieved February 21, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211774280
Government Gazette,1863, pp. 63, 219.
Victorian Express, 11 August 1893. |
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