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MLC |
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National |
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8 January 1878 |
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Swan |
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Electorates
- MLC Swan 8 January 1878 (by-election)–13 February 1880
- Nominated MLC 10 June 1887–7 March 1889, 24 December 1890–9 December 1891 (resigned)
- Contested Swan 13 February 1880
Royal Commissions
- Member Royal Commission on Agriculture 1887–1891
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 Brockman, Edmund Ralph, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1829 |
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England, United Kingdom |
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17 September 1908 |
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Guildford, Western Australia |
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Middle Swan Cemetery, WA |
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Arrived in Western Australia on the Minstrel, 20 January 1830 |
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Son of William Locke Brockman, farmer and grazier, and Frances Elizabeth Hamersley
Brother of Henry Brockman and William Locke Brockman |
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Married 18 March 1852, Middle Swan Church, to Elizabeth Deborah Slade (born circa 1837 and died 16 April 1915), daughter of Lieutenant Frederick William, Royal Navy (later Resident Magistrate, Toodyay) and Janet Thomson
Children: two sons and four daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated privately at home (Herne Hill property) and later at Reverend William Mitchell’s School, Middle Swan
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Farmer |
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1847 managing Seabrook, property purchased by father in 1841
1872 after father’s death moved to Herne Hill, purchased adjoining Henley Park, also bred horses at Lyndhurst near Dandaragan
After sale of Henley Park in 1897 farmed Kenwick, a property near Cannington, then retired to Balmain, a smaller property |
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Chairman Swan Road Board January 1875–December 1877, 1879–December 1883 |
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1877–1878, 1880–1882 president Royal Agricultural Society
Prominent in Mechanics Institute and Northam Farmers’ Club |
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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. 37. |
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