Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Independent
Liberal from 1904 |
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18 March 1903 |
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Pilbara |
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Electorates
- MLA Pilbara 6 March 1903 (by-election)–27 June 1906 (resigned)
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Personal Information |
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1849 |
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Victoria?, Australia |
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5 October 1919 |
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Victoria Hospital, West Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Arrived in Western Australia on 21 November 1883, again 10 April 1884, possibly with his wife |
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Marriage details not known |
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Church of England |
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Prospector |
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Farming in Victoria
Manager, Karratha station near Roebourne
Kimberley pastoral lessee with Henry Hickes, 1885
Lake Edah cattle station near Broome, also purchased Croyden station with R and D McRae
Prospecting in Kimberley from 1887, sought stock route Fitzroy–Oakover rivers
Prospecting and storekeeper, Pilbara, 1888–1903
Mine manager at Nullagine, 1904
Travelling Protector of Aborigines, Marble Bar and Kimberley districts, 1906–1909
Protector of Aborigines at Turkey Creek, 1910–1915
Storekeeper, Pilbara, 1916 |
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Sold Lake Edah, February 1889
Justice of the Peace, 1902
Publications:
- Developing Our Resources: The Great Nor-Western Railway Port Hedland to Marble Bar and Nullagine, (Perth 1905?)
- Opening Up the Pilbara Goldfields, (Perth 1905) - with James Thomson
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Pilbara Goldfields News, 7 March 1903.
Reports – Chief Protector of Aborigines, 1907–1910.
Derby Police Journals (A241) (WA Archives)
Wise (1915–16)
BDWA II
Information supplied by Cathie Clement |
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