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Electorates
- MLA Dundas 20 November 1905–3 October 1911
- MLA Yilgarn 3 October 1911-12 March 1921
- Contested Yilgarn 12 March 1921
Office
- Minister without portfolio 28 June–27 July 1917
- Minister for Mines and for Railways 27 July 1917–17 April 1919
- Colonial Secretary 17 April–17 May 1919
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Personal Information |
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19 December 1866 |
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Kildare, Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
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1 May 1937 |
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Home of Peace, Subiaco, Western Australia |
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Albany Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of Charles George, wheelwright and coachbuilder, and Annie Nicholson |
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Married 2 November 1892, East Melbourne, Victoria to Jane Ellen Wiggins (born circa 1870), daughter of John and Margaret Ellen Carpenter
Children: none
Widowed 16 January 1927 |
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Church of England |
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Lawyer and solicitor |
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Called to Victorian Bar
Practised in Shepperton by 1892, in Traralgon, Victoria 1897–1900, also partnership in Morwell 1899–1900
At Terang 1901
WA Bar 1904
Practised at Norseman and later at Albany for a short time after leaving politics until ill health forced him to take a partner |
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At Home of Peace, Subiaco from 1928 |
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Battye I, p. 345.
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. 103.
West Australian, 5 May 1937. |
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