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State (WA)
Electorates
- MLA Fremantle, 3 October 1911–29 September 1917
- Contested West Province 13 May 1908, Fremantle 29 September 1917
State (South Australia)
Electorates
- MLA Encounter Bay 1896–1902
- Contested Alexandra 1902
Commissions
- Chairman of Royal Commission on Old Age Pensions 1898
Commonwealth
Electorates
- MHR Fremantle 16 December 1903–12 December 1906
- Contested Fremantle (House of Representatives) 12 December 1906, 13 April 1910
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Personal Information |
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5 April 1863 |
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Stratton, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom |
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11 September 1930 |
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Hacking River National Park, Sutherland, New South Wales, Australia |
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Rookwood Cemetery, NSW |
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1886 arrived in Victoria |
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Son of Henry Carpenter, carpenter/boilermaker, and Mary Ann Hood |
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Married 3 April 1889, Albert Park, Victoria (Primitive Methodist) to Alice Catherine Ross (born circa 1859), daughter of Bryce and Sarah Higgins |
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Not stated |
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Educated Swindon
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Boilermaker, businessperson and journalist |
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Apprentice boilermaker, Great Western Railway, Swindon
1886 boilermaker employed on locomotive construction, Phoenix Foundry Co, Ballarat
1891–1896 working foreman Jas March Tin & Co, Gawler, SA
To workshops Fremantle 1903
After leaving federal politics in secretarial and agency business, also journalist |
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1886 arrived in Victoria
1891 to South Australia
Active in Barossa Reform League (land reform)
Member Fremantle Trades Hall Association
President Transcontinental Railway League, and Fremantle ALF District Council
Active church and temperance worker
Went to Melbourne and then Sydney 1930, body found floating in the river |
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JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 340.
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. 44.
Bulletin,17 June 1931.
Commonwealth Parliamentary Handbook.
J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975.
West Australian, WA 5 October 1911.
Western Clarion, 27 October 1903.
Who’s Who in Australia, 4th ed, Adelaide, 1906??? |
Bibliography |
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