Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Murray 23 June 1962 (by-election)–30 March 1974
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Personal Information |
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15 July 1907 |
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Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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14 December 1981 |
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Murray Districts Hospital, Pinjarra, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, WA |
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Arrived in Western Australia 1912, family returned to Scotland on outbreak of war and remigrated circa 1919 |
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Son of Robert Thomas Ewart Runciman, farmer and superintendent Rottnest Island, and Agnes Evelyn Williamson |
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Married 14 March 1942, Saint Saviour’s Church Boyup Brook, (Church of England) to Flora Hester Mayhew (widow) (nee Inglis), daughter of James Inglis and Jessica Emily Flora Hester
Children: two daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Albany Primary School, 1913–1915; Portobello, Scotland, 1916–1918; St Idelphonsus, New Norcia, 1919–1920) and Scotch College, 1921–1923
Won scholarship to Royal Military College Duntroon, attended 1924–1926
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Farmer |
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Farmed at Wilga, 1927–1948; Boyup Brook, 1948–1952 and North Dandalup, 1952–1966 |
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Member of the Farmers’ Union, chairman North Dandalup
Received certificate of exemption from service in citizen forces, 1941
Member committee, Pinjarra Native Welfare Association
Deputy chairman, Peel Inlet Authority until 1974
Justice of the Peace
Member, North Dandalup Progress Association and Parents & Citizens
Member, Grand Lodge
Active sportsman all his life, played pennant bowls until his death
Patron, Mandurah Muscular Dystrophy Association
Patron of numerous sporting clubs |
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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. 228. |
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