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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

John Ewing

Parliamentary Service

House

MLA MLC

Party

Liberal then National 1917

Date Elected

28 April 1901

Electorate

South-West Mining

Service

Electorates

MLA South-West Mining District 28 April 1901–24 June 1904
MLA Collie 27 October 1905–11 September 1908
MLC South West Province 18 May 1916 (by-election)–30 November 1933
Contested Collie 28 June 1904, 11 September 1908, Bunbury 3 October 1911

Office

Minister for Education, Justice and the North West 18 June 1923–5 April 1924

Committees

Chairman of Committees 12 August 1920–11 July 1923

Private Member's Bills

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1933

Personal Information

Birth date

6 October 1863

Place of birth

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Death date

30 November 1933

Cause of death

Place of death

Briarsleigh, Guildford, Western Australia

Cemetery

Upper Swan Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

1896

Parents

Son of Thomas Campbell, Anglican clergyman, and Elizabeth Thomson

Marriage and Family

Brother of Norman Kirkwood
Married 28 July 1888, Church of England Church Bowral, New South Wales to Beatrice Maud Swinson (born September 1864 and died December 1933), daughter of George Newton of England, surgeon, and Lucy Dorothy Edwards
Children: two sons and two daughters

Religion

Church of England

Education

The Kings School, Parramatta, NSW

Occupation

Surveyor

Employment History

Apprenticed to his brother, surveyor, practised at Wollongong
For five years organised surveying of Berry estate, southern New South Wales
Land and mining surveying on Murchison and Eastern Goldfields
From 1897 surveyed Collie town site, discovered and developed coal seams
From 1908 mapping and classifying land for Midland Railway Company

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Living in Bunbury by 1898
1905 Justice of the Peace
Chairman Collie Progress Association
Chairman Griffin and Cardiff Coal companies
Member Senate University of Western Australia 1923–1924
Collie Road Board chairman 1905

References

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. 71-72.

Bibliography

Further Information

Suzanne Edgar and Peter Ewing, 'Ewing, John (1863–1933)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ewing-john-6127/text10487, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 21 December 2015.