Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
ALP member until 1917 then Nationalist
President
Political Labor League
Bunbury |
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1 March 1911 |
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Bunbury |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Bunbury, 1 March 1911–29 September 1917
- Contested Sussex, 11 September 1908
- Contested South West Province, 13 May 1910
- Contested Bunbury, 29 September 1917
Office
- Minister without portfolio, 28 June–29 September 1917
Commonwealth
- Contested Senate (Independent Country Party), 13 December 1919
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1917 |
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Personal Information |
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25 September 1872 |
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Kilmore, Victoria, Australia |
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13 July 1921 |
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Bunbury, Western Australia |
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Bunbury Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1893 |
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Son of James, farmer, and Mary Browne |
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Married 22 September 1901, St Mary's Church, West Perth to Hannah Walker (born circa 1876–1878 and died Mt Lawley, 19 July 1961), daughter of John and Jemima Tolmie
Children: one son |
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None |
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Qualified as pharmacist in New South Wales
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Pharmacist |
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Assistant dispenser, Government Hospital, Kalgoorlie
Chemist, Kalgoorlie, 1894–1901 |
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Member, Bunbury Municipal Council from 1906
Mayor, 1918–1919 and 1920–1921 |
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Member, Pharmaceutical Society
Came to Western Australia, 1893
Moved to Perth and then after a few years to Bunbury until death
From 1920 on entering local government involved in controversy over Council funds and services provided
Collapsed at a meeting to discuss a deficit in the Electric Light Department and died the next day after surgery |
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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. 193.
Lorraine's Cemetery Records Pages. Accessed 20 April 2015. http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Bunbury/bunbury.htm
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 15 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=55c91ffe-f31c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0 |
| Bibliography |
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JS Battye (ed.),The Cyclopaedia of Western Australia, 2 vols, Adelaide: Hussey and Gillingham, 1912–13, I, 354
South Western Times, 14 July 1921.
West Australian, 15 July 1921. |