Parliamentary Service |
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Electorates
- MLA Greenough 12 April 1930–20 November 1943
- Contested Greenough 20 November 1943, Central Province 4 May 1946
Committees
- Member Library Committee 1933–1943
- Member Select Committee on the Prices of the Necessaries of Life 1930
- Member Select Committee on Alternative Sites for the Erection of Public Buildings 1939–1940
- Member Select Committee on the operations of the Australian Wheat Board at North Fremantle 1943
- Member Hon Royal Commission inquiring into (Agricultural) Light Lands and Poison Infested Lands 1938
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Personal Information |
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10 May 1880 |
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Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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5 August 1968 |
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St John of God Hospital, Belmont, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To South Australia as small child and then to Western Australia circa 1900 |
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Son of William Patrick Sr, draper, farmer and politician, and Jane Walker |
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Married 4 June 1932, The Manse, North Perth, WA to Sarah Maude Sinclair (died 23 November 1982), daughter of John Sinclair and Marjorie McPherson
No children |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated Kapunda and Roseworthy Agricultural College, South Australia
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Farmer |
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Selected land in Northampton district and farmed there at ‘Ladyland’, Alma |
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Northampton Road Board 10 April 1918–June 1930
Chairman for four years |
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Brought up on orchard and dairy farm property in South Australia
Retired to Perth by 1946, then to Darlington
Foundation member Primary Producers’ Association, branch secretary and chairman
Founder Northampton District Agricultural Society, five years president, life member and life vice-president
Member Advisory Board Wheat Pool |
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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. 206.
Who's Who in Australia (1933–1934) |
Bibliography |
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