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- MLA Nelson 11 December 1903 (by-election)–28 June 1904
- Contested Nelson 27 October 1905
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Personal Information |
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23 June 1863 |
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Bishop’s Hall, Somerset, England, United Kingdom |
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27 June 1944 |
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Bridgetown, Western Australia |
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To WA 1886–1887 |
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Son of Octavius Gardiner and Prudence Ardagh |
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Married 2 July 1891, Parish Church, Bunbury, Emily Louisa Thomson (born 12 July 1870 and died 5 December 1955), daughter of James Guy and Emma Lucille Frances Roe
Children: two sons and six daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated locally and Oxford University
Two years at Guelph Agricultural College Canada
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Farmer |
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Worked in Ontario in summer
Worked at Busselton farm of Joseph Cookworthy and with brother William Ardagh Gardiner at Nannup
1889 bought 400 acres at Bridgetown and selected 2,000 acres later - ‘The Peninsula’ - crops and orchard
Agency business in town 1905–1910 |
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Bridgetown Road Board Chairman |
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Justice of the Peace, 1900
Secretary and president Agricultural Society
Chairman Health Board |
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Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 2, p. 461.
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. 201.
Bridgetown Advocate, 29 June 1944.
Dictionary of Western Australians, 1829-1914. Volume 4. Part 2, L-Z. The challenging years, 1868-1888.
Western Mail,13 May 1898. |
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