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Liberal until 1917 then Nationalist |
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21 October 1914 |
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North Perth |
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Electorates
- MLA North Perth, 2 October 1914–18 March 1939
- Contested South Province, 5 September 1900, Coolgardie 24 April 1901, North Perth 18 March 1939
Delegations
- Member, Secession delegation to Imperial Parliament, 1934
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Personal Information |
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26 April 1868 |
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Drumchardny near Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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6 August 1939 |
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Perth Hospital, Western Australia? |
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Dunlichity Cemetery, Scotland |
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1893 |
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Son of James, gamekeeper, and Helen McPherson |
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Married circa 1899 to Kate Louise Lawrence (born circa 1868 and died Highgate Hill, 31 March 1937), daughter of Lionel and Elizabeth
No children
Widowed 31 March 1937
Married second wife 11 December 1937, St Joseph’s Church (Roman Catholic) to Aileen Healy (born circa 1893), daughter of Timothy Stephen and July Mary McCartie
No children |
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Presbyterian |
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Journalist, businessperson and farmer |
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Staff member, Northern Chronicle, 1884
After arriving in Australia and in Queensland from 1888, worked briefly on a country paper then manager, Australian Mining Standard,Sydney
Established Golden Age (1894–1898), Western Australian Goldfields Courier (1894–1898) and Goldfields Morning Chronicle (1896–1898) with Sydney Hocking
Established the Sun newspaperat Kalgoorlie, 1898 with Arthur Reid and in 1901 purchased the Sunday Times
Bought out partner in 1912 and remained sole owner and chairman of directors, Sunday Times Publishing Co Ltd, until 1935
Deputy chairman, WA Bank until amalgamated in 1927
Deputy chairman, Western Australian Advisory Board, Bank of New South Wales
Director, Swan Portland Cement Company, Eagle Star Insurance Company, Amalgamation Colleries of Western Australia Limited
Chairman, Western Australian Finance Limited
Owned Pindar Merino Stud, Canna and Homebush Stud Farm, Cookernup, also wheat farm, Koorda
Exhibited stud sheep, cattle and horses |
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Arrived in Australia and in Queensland from 1888
To Coolgardie, 1893
Vice-president, Dominion League of WA
President, Scottish League of WA
Estate included endowment for MacCallum Smith chair of veterinary science at University of Western Australia |
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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, 2010, p. 182–183.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 15 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=f3a6ca3e-031d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c3d1 |
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V. Courtney, All I May Tell, Sydney: Shakespeare Head, 1956
Dictionary of Western Australians 1829–1914, Vol. 5, The Golden Years 1889–1914, Nedlands: University of Western Australia Press, 1986.
Donald Grant, 'Smith, James MacCallum (1868–1939)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/smith-james-maccallum-8476/text14905, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 11 January 2016.
Sunday Times (Perth) 13 August 1939
West Australian 11 August 1939
Who's Who in Australia,1938 |