Parliamentary Service |
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Labor
Held numerous official positions in Australian Labor Party
Left party circa 1911 but rejoined 1947 |
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24 June 1904 |
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Collie |
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Electorates
- MLA Collie 24 June 1904 – 27 October 1905
- Contested Collie 27 October 1909
Commonwealth
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- Contested Perth (House of Representatives) 13 April 1910
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Personal Information |
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4 September 1870 |
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Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
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11 June 1950 |
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Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA circa 1894 with brother and two sisters |
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Son of John, cabinet maker, and Frances Lamb |
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Married 17 August 1892, Hawthorn, Victoria, Julia Emma Wildy, (born circa 1870), daughter of George and Eliza Ann Webb
Children: one son and two daughters
Widowed 15 June 1945 |
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Church of England |
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Apprenticed as carpenter by 1892 carpenter living in Clifton Hill, Victoria
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Carpenter |
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Worked as a carpenter and joiner
Prominent in designing and erecting Perth Trades Hall but left party after dispute circa 1911
During World War I foreman carpenter Henderson Naval Base project
In later life a building surveyor |
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Lived in Subiaco
Secretary Industrial Union of Carpenters and Joiners
1902–1903 president Coastal Trades and Labour Council
Assisted in forming Institute of Quantity Surveyors late 1930s |
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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, 2001, p. 96.
Morning Herald, 30 June 1904. |
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