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Electorates
- Nominated MLC 22 November 1870–29 July 1872
- MLC Geraldton 29 September 1874–circa March 1876 (resigned); 22 July 1876 (by-election)–10 April 1883 (resigned)
- Also elected MLC North circa 24 October 1874 but refused election, choosing to sit for Geraldton
- MLC Gascoyne, 26 April 1883 (new division)–7 April 1886 (resigned)
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Personal Information |
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17 July 1843 |
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Grassdale near York, Western Australia |
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8 May 1905 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta (later East Perth) Cemetery, WA |
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Son of Thomas, pastoralist and Resident Magistrate, and Eliza Caroline Bussey
Uncle of Edith Cowan |
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Married 16 February 1875, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Amy Frances Howard, daughter of George Routh
Children: three sons and four daughters
Widowed 1905 |
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Church of England |
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Educated locally by tutors
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Farmer and magistrate |
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1858 shepherd on father’s Champion Bay property, Glengarry into partnership with him
1861 with FT Gregory’s expedition to North-West
1863 with brothers inherited Glengarry
Founded adjoining Newmarracarra station, active in horse-breeding trade with India
Resident Magistrate, Greenough 1866–1869
Government Resident and Resident Magistrate, Geraldton 1869–1870 and 1886–1904 |
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1865 led punitive expedition against Aborigines, La Grange
Justice of the Peace, 1865
1871 foundation member Weld Club
1877 sold Glengarry and 1880 sold Newmarracarra station
1904 retired through ill-health
Interred Karrakatta
Re-interred East Perth 1911
In 1912 monument with bust erected on Fremantle Esplanade |
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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. 6. |
| Bibliography |
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P. Cowan, Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia, Fremantle, 1988.
H. Drake-Brockman, 'Brown, Maitland (1843–1905)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/brown-maitland-3080/text4553, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 17 December 2015.
R. Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
Morning Herald,11 May 1905.
West Australian, 11 May 1905. |