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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Norman Kirkwood Ewing

Parliamentary Service

House

MLA

Party

Protectionist New South Wales in 1890s Independent 1897–1901 Free Trade 1901–1903 Anti-socialist (Liberal) 1906–1915

Date Elected

4 May 1897

Electorate

Swan

Service

State (Western Australia)

Electorates

MLA Swan 4 May 1897–March 1901
Contested Canning 28 June 1904 (Independent)

State (New South Wales)

Electorates

Contested The Tweed 1895

Commonwealth

Electorates

Senator for Western Australia 29 March 1901–17 April 1903 (resigned)
Contested Senate (Tasmania) 12 December 1906

State (Tasmania)

Electorates

MHA Franklin (Tasmania) April 1909–September 1915 (resigned)
Leader of the Opposition October 1914–September 1915

Private Member's Bills

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1904 (WA)

Personal Information

Birth date

6 December 1870

Place of birth

Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

Death date

19 July 1928

Cause of death

Place of death

Launceston, Tasmania

Cemetery

Carr Villa Cemetery, Launceston, Tasmania

Arrived in WA

1895

Parents

Thomas Campbell, Anglican clergyman, and Elizabeth Thomson

Marriage and Family

Brother of John Ewing
Married 15 October 1897, St Georges Cathedral, Perth to Maude Louisa Stone (born circa November 1869), daughter of Sir Edward Albert Stone and Susan Shenton
Children: one son and two daughters

Religion

Church of England

Education

Illawarra College, Wollongong and Oaklands Mittagong then night school in Sydney

Occupation

Lawyer and judge

Employment History

Articled to MAH Fitzhardinge
Admitted solicitor 1894, practised Murwillumbah, New South Wales
Admitted to the bar 1896, in 1897 established firm Ewing and Downing
Member Executive Committee Federal League of Western Australia
To Hobart 1905 where established Ewing and Seager
King's Counsel 1914
Judge Supreme Court of Tasmania from 1915
Administrator Tasmania November 1923–June 1924
On Tasmanian Royal Commission into public debts sinking fund 1915, Hobart Licensing Branch 1916, charges against VR Ratten 1918, Tasmania Institution for Blind, Deaf and Dumb 1925
Also 1919–1920 Royal Commission into Administration at Northern Territory, and 1920 into imprisonment of Industrial Workers of the World members in Sydney
Published The Practice of the Local Courts of Western Australia, 1897

Local Government

Candidate for Mayor of Perth 1902

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

To Hobart 1905
Worked only spasmodically from 1924 after suffering stroke

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 72.

Bibliography

Further Information

Scott Bennett, 'Ewing, Norman Kirkwood (1870–1928)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ewing-norman-kirkwood-6128/text10509, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 21 December 2015.