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John Ewing
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Birth | | Date: 6 October 1863
Place: Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia |
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Arrival in WA | | 1896 |
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Parents | | Son of Thomas Campbell, Anglican clergyman, and Elizabeth Thomson |
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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 |
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Death | | Date: 30 November 1933
Place: Briarsleigh, Guildford, Western Australia
Cemetery: Upper Swan Cemetery, Western Australia
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Religion | | Church of England |
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Education | | The Kings School, Parramatta, NSW |
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Occupation | | Surveyor |
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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 |
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House | | MLA
MLC |
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Local Government Service | | |
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Party | | Liberal then National 1917 |
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Date Elected | | 28 April 1901 |
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Speeches | | Search for speeches by John Ewing |
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Year Retired/Resigned | | 1933 |
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Electorate | | South-West Mining |
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Parliamentary 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
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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 |
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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. |
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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. |
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