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Francis Patrick Wallace
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Birth | | Date: 20 December 1861
Place: Campbell’s Camp, near Dalby, Queensland, Australia |
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Parents |  | Son of Edward, innkeeper, and Bridget Knox |
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Marriage and Family |  | Unmarried |
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Death |  | Date: 1 July 1925
Place: Old Men's Home, Dalkeith, Western Australia
Cemetery: Karrakatta Cemetery, WA
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Religion |  | Catholic |
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Education |  | Educated Queensland |
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Occupation |  | Storekeeper |
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Employment History |  | Went into business in north-west Queensland
1896–1906 storekeeper at Yalgoo |
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House |  | MLA |
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Local Government Service |  | Yalgoo Road Board chairman 1896–1897 |
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Party |  | Independent |
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Date Elected |  | 3 May 1897 |
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Speeches |  | Search for speeches by Francis Wallace |
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Year Retired/Resigned |  | 1904 |
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Electorate |  | Yalgoo |
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Parliamentary Service |  | Electorates
- MLA Yalgoo 3 May 1897–24 June 1904
- Contested Central Province 27 August 1904 (ministerial by-election)
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Background/Membership |  | 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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References |  | 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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