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Electorates
- MLA East Fremantle 5 May 1897–28 June 1904, 27 October 1905–24 April 1906 (election in 1905 declared void, seat declared vacant)
- MLC North Province 21 March 1914 (by-election)–25 April 1942
- Contested East Fremantle 28 June 1904
- After 1914 by-election victory re-elected unopposed until death
Office
- Commissioner for Railways May–November 1901
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Personal Information |
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24 May 1866 |
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Mandurah, Western Australia |
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25 April 1942 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Robert, police constable, and Maria Wilson |
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Married 17 August 1897, St Michael’s Church, Wollongong, NSW to Marjorie Jane Tighe (born circa 1872), daughter of Joseph Conlon and Isabella Neil
Children: two sons and two daughters
Widowed |
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Church of England |
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Educated Mandurah
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Butcher and farmer |
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From 1884 storeman, 1887 joined butcher’s firm, founded by brothers
1897–1931 pastoralist, part-owner with JA Kilfoyle of Rosewood Station, East Kimberley
Owned Homewood Station, 40,000 acres near Mingenew |
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Patron East Fremantle Football Club
Fremantle Municipal Council 1893–1898
Mayor of Fremantle 1910 (for a few days)
Supported Forrest 1897, opposed 1898–1900 |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1890-1930, p. 100-101.
G.C. Bolton, History of the Kimberley Pastoral Industry, USWA, 1954.
BDWA II.
Kimberly, p. 197–98.
Twentieth Century Impressions, p. 31–32.
West Australian, 27 April 1942.
Who's Who in Australia(1941) |
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