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22 August 1893 |
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Nominated |
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Electorates
- Nominated MLC 22 August 1893–July 1894
- Contested South West Province 16 July 1894
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1894 |
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Personal Information |
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24 July 1847(?) |
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England, United Kingdom |
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6 July 1927 |
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Private nursing home, London, England, United Kingdom |
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Arrived Western Australia from England on Yeoman, 21 June 1887, wife and family followed 18 August 1888 |
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Son of George Alexander, gentleman |
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Married 24 January 1877, Parish Church, St John Notting Hill, Middlesex, England, Edith Euphemia Carnegie (born circa 1852 and died 3 March 1926), daughter of John William, Army Major
Children: at least two sons and one daughter |
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Not stated |
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Educated Rugby 1863–1865
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Engineer, farmer, assayer and prospector |
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Set up metallurgical laboratory at Perth
1887 leader of party which discovered gold at Yilgarn
1889 Government Assayer
From circa 1893 farmed at Jarrahdale
1898 orchardist at Cardup |
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Kelmscott Road Board 1894–1897
First chairman, Serpentine Road Board 1897–1898 |
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Associate Member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers (MICE) and Member Mining Association, Cornwall
At time of marriage lived in Earl’s Court, London
1889 Justice of Peace
In 1890 lived at Bindaring in Cockburn Sound region
Chairman Beaconsfield Quartz GM Co
Speculated in real estate in Claremont and Bassendean
During 1898 in financial difficulties, sold and moved to Cardup as orchardist
Returned to United Kingdom circa 1899
After 1909 and by 1913 living in Camberley, Frimley, Surrey where wife died in 1926
Retired
Residence subsequently listed as Falmouth |
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D Black and G Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1890-1930 , Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 29.
Carter.
CSO 3629/89.
MJ Coy, The Serpentine (Mundijong 1980)
BDWA I.
Harrow School lists.
Uren, p. 56–61.
West Australian, 10 September 1887. |
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