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Electorates
- MLA Beverley, 3 October 1911–21 November 1914, 29 September 1917–22 March 1924
Office
- Colonial Secretary 25 June 1919–22 August 1922
- Minister for Public Health 12 March 1921–22 August 1922
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Personal Information |
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31 May 1876 |
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Avondale, Beverley, Western Australia |
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1 April 1930 |
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Beverley, Western Australia |
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Beverley Cemetery, WA |
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Son of James William, farmer, and Emily Jane Lukin and grandson of Peter Broun, the first Colonial Secretary |
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Married 17 February 1903, St Mary’s Anglican Church, Beverley, to May Constance Sewell (born 19 August 1884–died 12 May 1969), daughter of Henry Hawkins and Annie Lucy Robins
Children: three sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Beverley and Bennett’s Grammar School, York 1894–1897
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Farmer |
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Employed on his father’s property
Then engaged in mixed farming sheep and wheat at Waterhatch estate, Beverley with 5,000 acres |
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Beverley Road Board Member 1902–1904, 1906–1914, 1917–1919
Beverley Road Chairman 1908–1909, 1911–1914, 1917–1919 |
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Member Western Australian Turf Club
1906, Justice of the Peace
Freemason |
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JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 340.
D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 38.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
West Australian, 2 April 1930. |
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