Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Subiaco, 21 March 1959–20 February 1971
Office
- Speaker, 25 July 1968–20 February 1971
Committees
- Member, Standing Orders Committee 1959–1968 and thereafter as Speaker
- Member, Printing Committee 1962–1965
- Chairman, Hon. Royal Commission inquiring into the Natural Therapists Bill 1959–1961
- Member, Select Committees on the Perpetual Executors Trustees and Agency Co. (WA) Ltd and the WA Trustee Executor and Agency Co Ltd Private Bills 1966
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Personal Information |
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2 July 1910 |
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Laverton, Western Australia |
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28 January 2000 |
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Swan Lodge, Midland, Western Australia. Recorded as Kalamunda on Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. |
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Taken by Administrator at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Wemyss Manley Guthrie, accountant, and Annie Hutchinson |
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Married 27 April 1946, Perth College Chapel, Mt Lawley to June Cresswell Collins, daughter of William Ernest Collins and Christine Elizabeth Nickolls
Children: two sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated at private junior school in West Perth, owned and conducted by Miss Hilferty
Hale School, 1920–1927
University of Western Australia
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Lawyer |
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Barrister and solicitor
Served articles of clerkship with Lohrmann and Tindal, from 21 February 1928
Admitted to practice, 17 July 1933
Became partner in firm, 1 April 1937
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 15 May 1940, original member from 1939 of 2/16 Battalion as Private, then 39th Battalion
Commissioned 2nd/Lieutenant 30 May 1942, promoted Lieutenant 6 May 1943, Captain 14 December 1943
Posted to 49th Battalion (the original battalion at Port Moresby), 1942
Served in Middle East, Papua and New Guinea, Dutch New Guinea, Morotai and Borneo
Wounded in Sanananda
Mentioned in Despatches
Served in Headquarters of Sir Leslie Morshead when commander of 2nd Australian Corps
Discharged 30 October 1945 |
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Member, Law Society from 1934, served many years on Council
Director, NM Symington Co Pty Ltd
Director, Minilya Pastoral Co Pty Ltd
Director, Pilbara Exploration NL
Director, Callcott and Downey Pty Ltd, including period as chairman
Director, Wrights Ltd for 25 years, chairman 15 years
Retired 31 March 1971
Resident, Busselton, 1971–1974
Farm at Kent River
Member, Perth Legacy from 1946, president, 1953–1954
Chairman, Albany Contact Group of Perth Legacy, 1976–1978
Vice-president, Toc H (WA) 1970–1972
President, Cottesloe sub-branch Return Services League of Australia, 1949–1951
Member, Subiaco and Busselton Rotary Clubs, 1968–1974
Member, Royal Kings Park Tennis Club from 1935, president, 1950–1955
Vice president, Western Australian Lawn Tennis Association, 1951–1953
Member, Subiaco Cricket Club from 1960, president, 1962–1970
Member, Subiaco Boy Scouts, 1967–1970
Member, Western Australia Club since 1938, president, 1953–1955 |
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Black, David (1936). Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume two, 1930–2010, p. 105.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 5 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=45d9df74-f71c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c3d1 |
Bibliography |
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Daily News, 17 June 1968.
Speakers Presidents
Transcript of interview with Ronda Jamieson, (Battye Library)
Guthrie, Hugh Norman, Oral History.pdf
West Australian, 23 March 1959, 6 June 1968.
Who's Who Australia, (1968) |