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Electorates
- Elected MLC Metropolitan Province May 1934 but unseated on petition 21 November 1934 and James Thomas Franklin declared elected as from May 1934
- Contested North Perth (Legislative Assembly) 21 October 1914
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Personal Information |
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8 December 1864 |
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Aberdare, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom |
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16 July 1951 |
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St Margaret’s Convalescent Home, Maylands, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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After 1884 |
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Thomas George, tin worker, and Phoebe Morgans |
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Married (1) 26 February 1884, Registry Office, Northampton to Sarah Thomas, daughter of John and Mary Owen
Children: three sons and four daughters
Widowed 3 March 1922
Married (2) 16 December 1922, Railway Parade, West Leederville (Presbyterian) to Jessie Elizabeth Stephens (nee Cook) (born circa 1877 and died July 1965), widow, daughter of Edmund George and Mary Hunter Shankley
No children |
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Welsh Free Church |
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Educated in Wales
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Miner and businessperson |
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Tin miner at Northampton in 1884
Worked as a labourer in late 1880s, became carter then general carrier in 1890s, produce merchant in Perth from circa 1905 |
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Perth City Council November 1904–November 1934 |
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To Australia circa 1882
Moved to Perth after marriage
Retired circa 1926
Master Protestant Alliance Friendly Society
Grand Trustee of the Alliance in 1912 |
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David Black, and Geoffrey Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia volume one 1870-1930, Perth, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, 2001, p. 96. |
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