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Electorates
- MLA Maylands 20 February 1965–22 March 1968
- Contested Maylands 22 March 1968
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Personal Information |
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10 April 1910 |
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Kalgoorlie, Western Australia |
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23 February 2004 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Robert Marshall, hairdresser, and Esther Williamson Vickers |
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Married (1) 24 February 1936, Methodist Church, Bayswater to Jane Dingwall Robertson, daughter of Thomas Percival Robertson and Minnie McLenaghen
Children: one son and two daughters
Widowed 22 January 1968 (wife killed in road accident)
Married (2) 7 April 1973, St Mary’s Church, West Perth to Ethel May Gracie (nee Marriott), widow, daughter of George Marriott and Emily Fearn
No children
Widowed 27 March 1983
Married (3) 12 December 1983, All Saints Church, Upper Swan, Guildford to Hazel Jean Nicholas (nee Rowling) (died 26 March 2005), daughter of Richard James Rowling and Frances Mary Sprigg
No children
Cousin of William Mortimer Marshall |
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Church of England |
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Educated South Kalgoorlie Primary School 1915–1918, Kalgoorlie Central School 1918–1921 and Bayswater Primary School 1921–1922
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Businessperson |
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Perth Boys’ School apprentice hairdresser 1925–1929
Owned own business in Bayswater
Had business in London Court, Perth until 1941
Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force 20 January 1942
Flight-Sergeant Shepparton No. 2 recruiting depot, physical training instructor in various units around Australia
Discharged 20 November 1945
Dry cleaning proprietor 1946–1962
Squash court proprietor in Maylands from 1962
In 1988 still holding interest with son in Carine Glades Squash Academy |
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Bayswater Road Board 28 August 1948–2 June 1951
Perth Road Board (later Shire Council) 18 October 1963–28 April 1967 |
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Awarded Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) 1980 for services to billiards and the community
Sportsman of the Year for WA 1963 |
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Member Maylands Royal Institute for the Blind for 20 years
Justice of the Peace circa 1970
World class billiards player, four times world amateur champion 1936, 1938, 1951, 1962 and 22 times Australian amateur champion between 1936 and 1990
At one time holder of all world amateur billiard records
In 1993 won Masters billiards and snooker titles
During 1990s still coached and gave exhibitions at orphanages and retirement villages
Foundation member WA Hall of Champions August 1985, also Sport Australian Hall of Fame November 1985
Carried Olympic torch June 2000
Foundation president Sportsmen’s Association of Australia Hall of Fame November 1985
Foundation president Sportsmen’s Association of Australia, WA Division
Honoured by name on plaque in footpath of St George’s Terrace |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 175.
West Australian, 22 February 1965, 26 January 1980.
Western Australian Parliamentary Debates, 2 March 2004, p. 67–68.
Who's Who in Australia (1968) |
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