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State
Electorates
- MLC East Province, 22 May 1912–17 June 1923 (resigned)
- MLC Metropolitan Province, 22 May 1940–21 May 1948
- Contested East Province, 13 May 1910 (by-election), Avon 30 October 1911
- Contested Metropolitan Province, 8 May 1948
Office
- Colonial Secretary and Minister for Education (from 28 June 1917), 27 July 1916–17 April 1919
- Premier, Treasurer, Minister for Education and Railways, 17 April–17 May 1919
- Minister for Education, Agriculture, Public Health and North West, 17 May 1919–3 April 1921
- Minister for Education, North West and Justice, 3 April 1921–17 June 1923
Delegation
- Member, Secession Delegation to Imperial Parliament, 1934
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Senator for WA 1 July 1929 (elected 1928)–20 March 1933 (resigned)
Royal Commissions
- Member, Royal Commission on Commonwealth Constitution 1927–1929
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Personal Information |
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29 March 1872 |
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Underley, Wolverflow, Hertson, England, United Kingdom |
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12 February 1953 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of George Pateshall, farmer and chemist, and Georgina Gardner |
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Married (1) 29 April 1896, St George’s Cathedral, Perth to Mary Maud Saunders (born circa 1869 and died 20 January 1940), daughter of J Valentine and Margaret Duff
Children: two sons
Widowed 20 January 1940
Married (2) 21 December 1944, St Andrews Church, Perth (Presbyterian) to Marion Frances Gibson (born circa 1911 and died circa 1975), daughter of Sir Frank Gibson and Jean Rodger Ella
Children: one son |
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Church of England |
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Educated at local school Goolwa, South Australia
Attended evening classes in shorthand, English literature and Latin
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Journalist and newspaper owner |
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At age 11 years, office boy and printer’s devil, Norwood Free Press
Worked on newspapers at Peterborough, Port Pirie and Laura
At age 16 years, went to Broken Hill as journalist with Silver Age
Reported strike meetings and Crown witness at the trial of strike leaders, 1892
1894 to WA with Golden Age (Coolgardie) and Kalgoorlie Miner
Mining editor, Morning Herald, 1896–1905
Editor and owner, Northam Advertiser,1905–1912 |
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Mayor of Northam, November 1909–November 1912 |
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1923), Knight (Kt) (1927) |
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Organised election of James Mitchell to Legislative Assembly, 1905
Committee member, War Patriotic Fund for WA, 1916
Agent-General for Western Australia, 1923–1927 and 25 March 1933–15 March 1939
Member, Senate, University of Western Australia, 1916
WA chess champion, 1900–1901
Edited A Story of a Hundred Years WA 1829–1929 (Perth 1929) |
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Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 49.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 23 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=13c087f2-f31c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c0bd |
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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. 49.
- Battye I, 325.
- Colebatch Papers, Battye Library, Perth.
- Courtney, 101–104.
- Crowley, 184, 186–87, 224, 275.
- B. K. De Garis, 'Colebatch, Sir Harry Pateshall (Hal) (1872–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/colebatch-sir-harry-pateshall-hal-5725/text9685, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 17 December 2015.
- J Rydon, A Biographical Register of the Commonwealth Parliament, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1975.
- Watt.
- West Australian, 13 February 1953.
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