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State (Western Australia)
Electorates
- MLC South East Province 4 October 1909 (by-election)–31 March 1917
State (New South Wales)
Electorates
- MLA St Leonards 1889–1894
- Willoughby 1894–1895
- Contested Willoughby 1895
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1849 |
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Jamberoo, New South Wales, Australia |
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31 March 1917 |
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Katanning, Western Australia |
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Katanning Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1904 |
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John, farmer, and Rebecca Johnstone
Brother of Sir William, Chief Justice of New South Wales |
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Married 18 April 1878, St Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales to Annie Butler (born circa 1853 and died circa November 1928), daughter of John and Vianna
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Congregational |
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State schools and Camden College, Sydney
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Newspaper owner and editor |
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Congregationalist minister, Windsor, North Sydney, North Willoughby and Watson’s Bay
1886 resigned
Proprietor and editor of a North Sydney paper
From 1906 proprietor and editor Great Southern Herald (Katanning) |
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Two years in Eastern Goldfields
Free trade in 1890s |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930 (rev.ed.). Perth: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 56. |
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