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Electorates
- MLA East Perth 3 October 1911–21 October 1914
- Contested East Perth 21 October 1914
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Personal Information |
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5 April 1861 |
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Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom |
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8 January 1948 |
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St Margaret Hospital, Maylands, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA October 1892 |
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Son of James Brooke, journeyman stonemason, and Margaret Moran |
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Married 3 May 1887, Congregational Parsonage, Newcastle, NSW to Lucinda Jane Beattie (born circa 1859), daughter of Joseph and Jane Montgomery
Widowed 14 May 1937
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Stonemason |
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Spent several years working in South Australia, Victoria and NSW as a monumental mason
Inspector with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 1894–1911
Studied in free time and became associate of Sanitary Institute and certified Sanitary Inspector
Honorary inspector of meat and milk for Perth Central Board of Health
After Parliament became farmer at Bruce Rock and veterinary practitioner in Merredin area |
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Perth City Council 1909–1911 |
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To South Australia on Dundee 1883
To WA October 1892, arrived at Albany then moved Perth
1908 name removed from list of honorary inspectors after agitating about health standards
Retired to Merredin by 1936 |
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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. 117.
Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review: descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations: an epitome of progress p. 346.
West Australian, 5 October 1911.
Family information (daughter, Mrs Thielemann) |
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