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Electorates
- MLC Metropolitan–Suburban Province 29 August 1900–23 January 1903 (resigned)
- Contested North Fremantle 11 December 1890
Office
- Minister without portfolio 28 June–21 November 1901
- Minister for Lands 24 December 1901–23 January 1903
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Personal Information |
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5 May 1860 |
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Manse, Pathhead, Dysart, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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12 March 1907 |
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Railway accident |
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Alkmaar (Delagoa Bay), Mozambique, Africa, |
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Unknown |
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Arrived in WA 1884 |
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Son of Reverend Charles Adam, Church of Scotland minister, and Grace Chalmers |
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Married 23 November 1889, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Ethel Mary Hensman, daughter of Alfred Peach and Emily Rowden
Children: one daughter
Widowed 1897, Rome |
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Presbyterian |
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Educated Craigmont School, Edinburgh and Edinburgh University, MD 1883
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Doctor |
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Resident medical officer Chalmers Hospital England, where practised in partnership with Dr Harvey until 1892
Had interests in gold in Kimberley and Yilgarn fields
Practised medicine in Rome 1893–1897
1899–1900 chairman Prisons Commission
1903–1906 Commissioner for Crown Lands in Transvaal |
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Buckland Hill Road Board 1899–1901 |
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Moved to Europe for health reasons
Returned to WA after wife’s death |
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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. 107.
Morning Herald, 15 March 1907.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 25.
Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888, compiled by Rica Erickson, Nedlands: University of Western Australia press, 1987.
Dictionary of Western Australians II. |
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