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- Nominated MLC, 24 November 1875–25 July 1876 (resigned)
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Personal Information |
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1806 or 1808 |
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Fethard, Tipperary, Ireland |
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16 October 1876 |
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Fethard, Ireland |
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Arrived WA March 1830 on Warrior with two brothers |
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Son of Dr Richard Lockier Burges and Isabella Evans
Brother of Lockier Clere Burges, uncle of Thomas Burges and Richard Burges |
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Unmarried |
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Church of England |
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Farmer |
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Farmer in upper Swan, 1830–1837
Resident Magistrate, Champion Bay (Geraldton), 1851–1860
Sub-collector of customs and visiting magistrate convict depot, Port Gregory, 1853 |
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1837 to Tipperary, York
Ireland, 1841–1844
Returned to York
Justice of the Peace, 1846
Secretary, York Agricultural Society 1847, petitioned for convict transportation
Moved to Bowes, Champion Bay, 1850
Returned to Ireland, 1860
Revisited WA, 1868 and 1875–1876
Bequeathed his farming property to his nephew Thomas Burges which was managed by John Wellington until 1900
Believed that Burges Road in Champion Bay, Geraldton is named after him |
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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, WA, 2001, p. 7. |
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R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
Inquirer, 14 April 1875, 13 and 20 December 1876.
M. Tamblyn, 'Burges, William (1806–1876)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/burges-william-1852/text2149, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 17 December 2015.
White, Sue, The Bowes: a little piece of heaven. Northampton Historical Society, 2012. |