Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
Australian Labor Party until 1917 then Nationalist |
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24 April 1901 |
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Mount Margaret |
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Electorates
- MLA Mount Margaret 24 April 1901–12 April 1930
- Contested Leederville 26 March 1930
Office
- Colonial Secretary 10 August 1904–7 June 1905
- Speaker 19 July 1917–23 July 1924
Committees
- Chairman of Committees 13 October 1910–1 November 1911
Historical Note
- Father of the House October 1911–April 1930
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Personal Information |
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16 May 1861 |
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Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia |
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24 December 1935 |
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Oxford Street, Leederville, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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1894 |
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Son of Robert, carpenter, and Margaret Bourke |
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Married 12 December 1910, St Andrew's Church, Subiaco to Neta Hannah Stanley Whalan (born circa 1872 and died 13 June 1933), widow of F Hackett and of Robert P Whalan (died circa 1895), daughter of John Oughton, statistician, and Amelia Jane Dove
Children: one child
Widowed 13 June 1933 |
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Church of England |
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Wollongong State School, New South Wales
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Shearer and prospector |
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Joined a shearing team at 12 years old, in various occupations, drifted to Queensland where became involved with Labor movement
Took active part in formation and subsequent activities of Queensland Shearers’ Union
Became Central and Western Districts Organiser for Australian Labor Federation |
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Convicted in Rockhampton, Queensland of conspiracy during 1891 shearers’ strike, imprisoned for three years on St Helena but was released early
To Western Australia 1894
Worked at Mulga Queen Mine near Erliston and then Mount Sir Samuel Mine
Helped form North Coolgardie branch of Australian Workers' Association
Became vice president and at one time a life member Australian Workers' Union
Member Perth Hospital Board 1908–1913, chairman 1913–1923
Member Licensing Bench 1930–1933 (5) |
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Black, David, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One. 1890 -1930 revised edition, p. 192.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 20 April 2015. http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=KB00047948 |
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J.S. Battye (ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Western Australia, 2 vols, Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham, 1912–1913, vol I, p. 353–54.
Wendy Birman, 'Taylor, George (1861–1935)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/taylor-george-8755/text15341, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 12 January 2016.
Dictionary of Western Australians 1829–1914, Vol. 5, The Golden Years 1889–1914, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1986.
Kookynie Press 7, 10, 17 June 1905.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia,Anon., p. 36.
West Australian, 25 September 1935.
Who's Who in Australia, (1922) |