Parliamentary Service |
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Liberal
Joined Liberal Party
1947 (52)
Inaugural president
Mt Lawley Young Liberals
Member
Clontarf and Rossmoyne–Shelley branches Liberal party |
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19 February 1977 |
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Clontarf |
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Electorates
- MLA Clontarf, 19 February 1977–4 February 1989
Office
- Opposition Whip, 1983–1988
Committees
- Member, Joint House Committee 1980–1989
- Member, Joint Printing Committee 1979–1986
- Member, Joint Select Committee on Offices of Profit of MPs and Members’ Contracts with the Crown 14 October 1980–3 November 1982
- Appointed to Select Committee on the Small Claims Tribunal, 27 November 1984 but discharged at own request 28 February 1985
Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
- WA delegate, Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1985
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Personal Information |
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9 August 1928 |
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Mt Lawley, Western Australia |
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19 May 2012 |
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Salter Point, Western Australia |
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Memorialised at Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Lawn 5C, Sir T Meagher Gardens, garden M, position 0001 |
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Son of William Bartle Williams, clerk and accountant, and Thelma Mildred Enid Flanders |
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Married 30 August 1952, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Diana Borwell Pocklington, daughter of John Shaw Pocklington and Dorothy Elizabeth Mary Borwell
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated North Perth Primary School and Wesley College
Associate Fellow, Australian Institute of Management, 1978
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Businessperson |
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Clerk for 10 years, then self-employed businessman and company director |
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Member, Swan Shire Council, 27 October 1972–May 1978 |
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Member, WA Chamber of Commerce and Confederation of WA Industry
Justice of the Peace
Member, P&C Association during children’s school years
Member, Rotary and honorary member Manning Lions Club
Played A grade cricket for Nedlands
Past president, WA Suburban Turf Association
Patron of various sporting clubs
Member, Royal Agricultural Society, WA Club, Western Australian Cricket Association, Nedlands and South Perth Cricket Clubs, Royal Perth Golf Club, South of Perth Yacht Club, Riverton–Rossmoyne Bowling Club and Mt Pleasant Bowling Club
In retirement living in Salter Point |
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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. 280.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 28 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=ca8a673f-8c1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c3d1
West Australian, 18 August 1973, 24 July 1975, 21 February 1977.
Who's Who in Australia, (1982) |
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