Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor until 1894
Later Liberal |
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9 June 1910 |
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Fremantle |
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State (WA)
Electorates
- MLA Fremantle 9 June 1910 (by-election)–3 October 1911
- Contested Fremantle 3 October 1911
State (NSW)
Electorates
- MLA Balmain 1891–1894 (Prot)
- Contested Balmain North 1894
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Search for speeches by William Murphy |
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1911 |
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Personal Information |
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Circa 1858 |
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Wexford, Ireland, or Formby, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom |
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11 October 1929 |
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Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA circa 1894–1895 |
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Son of Michael, marine superintendent Cunard Company, and Annie Jones |
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Married 9 April 1889, residence of bride, Paddington, NSW to Ada Annie Southern (born circa 1858 and died 17 September 1944), daughter of Thomas James and Anne Jane Grayling
Children: three sons and two daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Liverpool Institute, Montreal
Certificates as second mate, first mate, master |
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Seaman, clerk and businessperson |
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1873 with Fordan, March and Company, Boston, United States as trainee buyer
Undertook marine survey Cockburn Sound
Working as customs clerk 1900, then merchant |
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Mayor of Fremantle October 1907–1909 |
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Went to sea
1879 arrived Sydney, New South Wales
1884 returned to England
1889 left sea to form Officers’ Association in NSW
1890 member of Labour Defence Committee
Member Ugly Men’s Association |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 149.
Daily Telegraph, (Sydney) 3 July 1891.
Martin, AW and P Wardle, Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1856-1901, p. 157.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 26 February 2015. http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php?id=FB00015382 |
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