Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Liberal
Country Party after 1958 |
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22 May 1946 |
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Central |
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Electorates
- MLC Central Province (Midland Province after 1950), 22 May 1946–12 June 1963
Office
- Government Whip, 1948–1950
- Minister for Transport, Railways and Mines, 6 April 1950–23 February 1953
- Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council, 1 December 1955–1 March 1958
Committees
- Deputy Chairman of Committees, 1953–1956
- Member, Joint House Committee, 1947–1950
- Member, Select Committee on the Retailing of Motor Spirits and Accessories, 1955–1956
- Member, Joint Select Committee on the Provisions of the Metropolitan (Perth) Passenger Transport Trust Bill, 1957
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Personal Information |
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28 August 1887 |
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Peechember, near Yanac-a-Yanac, Lowan, Victoria, Australia |
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12 June 1963 |
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Morawa Hospital, Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA.
Crematorium Rose gardens, Wall S, 0035 |
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Son of John Michael Simpson, schoolteacher, and Mary Ann Stone |
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Married 9 July 1921, Methodist Church, Glen Waverley, Victoria to Neta Annice Matyr (born 1897 and died 28 September 1992), daughter of Harry William Matyr and Eliza Wilson
Children: two daughters |
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Methodist |
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State School, Peechember, private tuition and James Street School, Perth (night classes)
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Clerk, storekeeper, and stock and station agent |
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Clerk, Perth, 1902–1905, then metallurgical work on Murchison goldfields, 1905–1913 (at Youanmi 1912–1913)
With Royal Engineers, England, World War I, 1917–1919
Returned to Australia, agency work at Paynesville, 1920–1921
Storekeeper, farm and station agent at Pindar, From 1921 |
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In Rhodesia, 1914–1916
Secretary, Mullewa Agricultural Society for 17 years
Justice of the Peace, 1933
Vice-president, Volunteer Defence Corps and Returned Services League of Australia
Member, Mullewa Hospital Board
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website records his place of death as Bassendean |
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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. 236.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 23 August 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=5d1dc46c-dd1c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
| Bibliography |
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Ferguson, p. 167.
West Australian, 13 June 1963.
Who's Who in Australia(1962) |