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Electorates
- MLA Nelson 28 June 1904–21 October 1914
Office
- Opposition Whip 1911–1914
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Personal Information |
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4 June 1865 |
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Wonnerup, Vasse, Western Australia |
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23 March 1926 |
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Bridgetown, Western Australia |
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Bridgetown Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of George, grazier, and Amelia Harriet Curtis and cousin of Ernest Charles Bavage Locke |
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Married 2 April 1893, St Mary’s Church, Busselton, Florence Edith Reynolds (born circa 1868 and died circa September 1956), daughter of Joseph Gardiner and Mary Ellen Morgan
Children: five sons and three daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Wonnerup and High School, Perth
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Farmer |
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At age 17 years worked for WA Timber Company for two years and then went farming
Had store on Greenbushes tin fields 1888–1900
Then grazier and pastoralist at Wonnerup |
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Greenbushes Road Board 1898–1904, sometime chairman |
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Member Nelson, Balingup and Southern Districts Agricultural Society
Keen horseman and judge of stock |
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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, 2001, p. 120.
Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review, vol 1, p. 346.
Blackwood Times, 26 March 1926.
R Erickson, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III
Henn PU. Genealogical Notes, MSS in Battye Library, Perth.
West Australian, 24 March 1926. |
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