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3 May 1897 |
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Yalgoo |
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Electorates
- MLA Yalgoo 3 May 1897–24 June 1904
- Contested Central Province 27 August 1904 (ministerial by-election)
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Search for speeches by Francis Wallace |
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Personal Information |
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20 December 1861 |
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Campbell’s Camp, near Dalby, Queensland, Australia |
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1 July 1925 |
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Old Men's Home, Dalkeith, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Son of Edward, innkeeper, and Bridget Knox |
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Unmarried |
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Catholic |
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Educated Queensland |
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Storekeeper |
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Went into business in north-west Queensland
1896–1906 storekeeper at Yalgoo |
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Yalgoo Road Board chairman 1896–1897 |
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1886 to Kimberley
Moved to Goldfields, later at Mingenew and Mullewa
1907–1908 at Wagin
Justice of the Peace, 1897
1910 lived at Shamrock Hotel, Geraldton, described himself as a gentleman
Sportsman and racehorse owner |
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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. 200.
Erikson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume IV.
Geraldton Express, Murchison Goldfields Supplement 27 March 1897, 113.
Kimberly, WB. History of West Australia. A Narrative of her Past, together with biographies of her leading men, p. 199.)
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 38.
The Western Australia post office directory(1900–10) |
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