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24 October 1884 |
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Swan |
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MLC Swan 24 October 1884–30 January 1889
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1889 |
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Personal Information |
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21 June 1845 |
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Herne Hill, Western Australia |
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7 November 1916 |
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South Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Son of William Locke Brockman, pastoralist and stock breeder, and Ann Frances Elizabeth Hamersley, cousin of Edward Hamersley and Samuel Hamersley and brother-in-law of Charles Harper and James Morrison |
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Married 19 March 1874, St Matthews Church, Guildford to Anna Louisa (born 20 September 1855 and died 28 April 1932), daughter of Robert de Burgh and Clara Welliton
Children: three sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated England
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Farmer |
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From 1864 farmer and grazier at Cheriton, near Gingin
1870 in horse export trade to India
Prominent grazier and exhibitor at Royal Agricultural Society shows
From 1886 investor and speculator Midland Railway, lost heavily
Circa 1903 sold Cheriton |
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Mayor of Gingin, 1893–1903 |
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 3, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966-.
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. 5.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
West Australian, 8 November 1916. |
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