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- MLA North-East Coolgardie 4 May 1897–6 January 1901
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Personal Information |
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23 March 1867 |
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St Dominic, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom |
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6 January 1901 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA. Roman Catholic (at death) |
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To WA 1892 |
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Son of Charles Walker, civil engineer and Emma Lane |
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Married 11 November 1897, St John’s Church, Perth (Church of England) to Venetia Ann Nicholson (nee Finn), widow, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth King
No children |
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Catholic |
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Educated Truro, Cornwall, England
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Journalist |
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British Navy, 1885
Worked as timber miller, drover, miner, journalist
Joined staff of Eidsvold Reporter, mining correspondent for Maryborough Chronicle and Colonist, sub-editor of Northern Miner
Editor, Australian Republica,1891
Moved to WA , edited Murchison Miner, 1892
Founded Miners' Right later Coolgardie Miner, 1894
Also briefly edited Geraldton Express
Founded Sunday Times (Perth), 1897 |
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Emigrated to Bolivia at age 15 years
1886 arrived Queensland
1892 imprisoned for inciting strikes among miners
Published:
- The Prospector’s Companion: A Guide to Simple Mineral Analysis (Perth, 1894)
- A Social Armistice (pamphlet)
- Legalised Robbery (pamphlet)
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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, 2010, p. 199. |
Bibliography |
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Bastin, J. "FCB Vosper, an Australian Radical" (unpublished paper, Kuala Lumpur)
Erickson, Rica. Dictionary of Western Australians 1829-1914, Vol 5, The Golden Years 1889-1914 .
Holyday, Chris. FCB Vosper of the long hair: a radical democrat ahead of his time. Carlisle, Western Australia: Hesperian Press, 2023.
Jaggard, E. "Bread and democracy: FCB Vosper in the roaring nineties." Westerly, 1977, No. 4, p. 28–43.
Jaggard, E. "FCB Vosper the agitator" in Ed. L Hunt. Westralian Portraits, p. 104–111.
Jaggard, E. "Vosper, Frederick Charles Burleigh (1869–1901)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/vosper-frederick-charles-burleigh-8933/text15695, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 12 January 2016.
Kimberly, WB. History of West Australia. A Narrative of her Past, together with biographies of her leading men, p. 181–82.
Raeside J. Golden Days. |