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12 December 1891 |
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Electorates
- MLC Swan 13 February–23 April 1880 (resigned)
- Nominated MLC 12 December 1891–June 1894
- MLA Murchison 15 October 1894 (by-election)–26 April 1897; de Grey 26 April 1897–28 May 1900 (resigned)
- Contested Central Province 16 July 1894
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Personal Information |
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3 October (30 September) 1842 |
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At sea on voyage from United Kingdom to Tasmania |
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3 August 1903 |
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Vevey, Switzerland |
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Arrived WA December 1864 on Stag as member of Camden Harbour Pastoral Co in partnership with New and Kean Explorations in north-west |
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Son of Daniel, farmer, and Ellen Barry |
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Married 23 November 1861, Portland, Victoria (Congregational) to Jane Maze (Mays) (born 1845 and died 9 April 1930), daughter of John Hill and Sarah Adams
Children: two sons and five daughters |
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Not stated |
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Educated Portland, Victoria
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Farmer |
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Farmer in Portland 1861
1866 first pastoralist to drive stock from Geraldton to Ashburton
Overseer for TC Gull at Boraning in Williams district, from 1874 managed Barker and Gull store at Guildford
To Mt Mortimer Station in north-west 1881, 1884 to cattle station, Henry River
Returned to Perth to manage JH Monger and Dalgety & Co
Chairman Aborigines Protection Board 1891–1892
Director of several companies |
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In Launceston, Tasmania until 1846
Bought land Roebourne 1867, joined by wife and family
On Ashburton station but this had to be abandoned after two years
Bankrupt 1871
President Western Australian Turf Club, Royal Agricultural Society
Author of Tarragul or Bushlife in Australia
Contributed to newspapers
Travelled extensively in Europe |
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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, 2001, p. 101. |
Bibliography |
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Wendy Birman, 'Hooley, Edward Timothy (1842–1903)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hooley-edward-timothy-3790/text5995, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 22 December 2015.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western AustraliansII.
WB Kimberly, History of West Australia. A narrative of her past, together with biographies of her leading men, FW Niven and Co, Melbourne, 1897, p. 24–28.
EI Sharp, ET Hooley Pioneer Bushman (published privately: West Perth, 1985)
Withnell Taylor, 56, p. 216–217. |