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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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.
Anglican Area, MON A section, 0536 grave site |
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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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Trainee buyer, Fordan, March and Company, Boston, United States, 1873
Undertook marine survey, Cockburn Sound
Customs clerk, 1900
Merchant |
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Mayor of Fremantle, October 1907–1909 |
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Went to sea
Arrived Sydney, New South Wales, 1879
Returned to England, 1884
Left sea to form Officers’ Association, NSW, 1889
Member of Labour Defence Committee, 1890
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.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=936f498b-9b1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9 |
| Bibliography |
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Daily Telegraph, (Sydney) 3 July 1891.
Martin, AW and P Wardle, Members of the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, 1856-1901, p. 157. |