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Electorates
- MLA Coolgardie September 1908–13 July 1916
- Contested Mt Burges 24 April 1901, South Province 30 May 1904, Coolgardie 27 October 1905, 9 July 1906 (by-election)
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1862 |
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Ballarat, Victoria, Australia |
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13 July 1916 |
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West Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Came to WA 1896 |
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Son of Charles and Bridget Devine |
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Married 17 September 1893, Government Statistical Office, Melbourne Victoria to Rebecca Harriet Chescoe (nee Avery) (born 1858, United Kingdom and died circa July 1933), daughter of George and Elizabeth Hutchings
Widowed 18 May 1892
Children: one son and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated in New Zealand
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Auctioneer |
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From 1884 estate agent in Melbourne
Auctioneer at Coolgardie
Transferred land and estate business to Perth |
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Nunawading Shire Council 1891
Coolgardie Municipal Council 1901–1904
Mayor of Coolgardie 1904–1906 |
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1866–1884 resided in New Zealand
1893–1896 on Committee of Australian Natives' Association (ANA), Victoria
1898 president WA branch ANA
Justice of the Peace 1914
Freemason |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930,p. 128.
Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1,p. 348.
West Australian, 14 September 1908, 14 July 1916. |
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