Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Protectionist in NSW until 1895
then National Federal Labor from 1905 |
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27 October 1905 |
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Kanowna |
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State (WA)
Electorates
- MLA Kanowna, 27 October 1905–10 May 1932
Office
- Minister for Justice and Education, 7 October 1911–27 July 1916
- Attorney General, 22 November 1911–27 July 1916
- Speaker, 24 July 1924–29 July 1930
State (NSW)
Electorates
- MLA Northumberland, 17 February 1887–25 June 1894
- Contested Wallsend, 1894, 1895, Sturt 1898
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Personal Information |
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5 February 1858 |
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Preston, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom |
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10 May 1932 |
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Inglewood, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia.
Anglican area, ZB section, gravesite 0109 |
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1899 to WA |
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Son of Thomas, corn miller and merchant, and Ellen Eccles |
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Married 19 May 1881, Graaf Reinet, Cape Province, South Africa to Andrietta Maria Somers (born circa 1862 and died 18 October 1939), daughter of John William
Children: two sons and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Leyland Grammar School
Studied law from circa 1906
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Journalist |
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Farmhand and chemist’s assistant, Canada
Schoolteacher, Preston for two years
Journalist, Preston Herald
Lecturer on evolution and occult sciences, 1876
To Australia 1877, lectured in New South Wales, England and South Africa on spiritualism and politics
Wrote whilst in NSW Parliament
After 1894 in New Zealand for a time, taught elocution, worked for temperance, lectured and wrote for press
Journalist, Sunday Times, Kalgoorlie Sun and Kalgoorlie Miner
Editor, Sunday Timesfrom 1901 and Sununtil 1905
WA Bar, 1911 |
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Emigrated to Canada
Returned to United Kingdom
Moved to Toledo, Ohio, United States of America
To Australia, 1877
Returned to Australia, 1882; to Victoria
Member, Senate, University of Western Australia, 1912–1916 |
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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. 200.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 20 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=0a14cb82-961d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
| Bibliography |
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Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 320–21.
Grant, AR. Memories of Parliament, p. 25–27.
Mansfield, B. "The background to radical republicanism in New South Wales in the 1880's", Historical Studies, no. 20, May 1953, p. 1.
Martin, AW and P Wardle. Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1856-1901.
F. B. Smith, 'Walker, Thomas (1858–1932)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/walker-thomas-4789/text7975, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 12 January 2016.
West Australian, 11 May 1932. |