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17 March 1934 |
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North-East |
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Electorates
- MLC North-East Province 17 March 1934 (by-election)–23 March 1938
- Contested Kalgoorlie 22 March 1924 (National Labor Party), North-East Province 10 May 1930, 29 October 1932 (by-election)
Historical Notes
- Wife, Catherine contested by-election unsuccessfully in 1938
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Personal Information |
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3 March 1870 |
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Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia |
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23 March 1938 |
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Kalgoorlie, Western Australia |
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Kalgoorlie Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1893 |
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Edwin Alexander Elliott, pastoralist, and Elizabeth Dyce Dias |
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Married 7 September 1908, St John’s Church, Kalgoorlie, WA to Catherine Reid (born circa 1867 and died 2? March 1968), daughter of Hugh and Bridget Hannah Bourke
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Gundaroo, New South Wales
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Miner and engineer |
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Prospected mainly in Mt Margaret
Managed several mines and properties in outback before settling in Kalgoorlie
Became a permanent tributer and mining engineer |
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Member, Kalgoorlie Municipal Council, 22 November 1922–May 1934 |
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Secretary, Eastern Goldfields Tributers Association
Took case on its behalf to the Privy Council and won the right to a premium on gold won from tributes
President, Amalgamated Prospectors Association of Western Australia at time of his death |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 80.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 30 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=7ab7aa89-db1c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9 |
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