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Electorates
- East Fremantle 28 June 1904–27 October 1905, 13 November 1906 (by-election)–October 1911; North–East Fremantle October 1911–24 March 1927
- Contested East Fremantle 24 April 1901, 27 October 1905 (election declared void 12 April 1906, seat declared vacant 24 October 1906)
Office
- Hon Minister 8 October 1911–22 November 1914
- Minister for Works 23 November 1914–27 July 1916; for Lands and Migration 17 April 1924–24 March 1927
Royal Commissions
- In 1935 and 1938 chairman two Royal Commissions on wheat
Miscellaneous
- 1936 presided over Rural Relief Trust
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Personal Information |
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8 May 1863 |
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St Just-in-Penrith, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom |
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9 June 1944 |
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East Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1892 to Western Australia |
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Son of Benjamin, tin miner, and Mary Taylor (died in William's infancy) |
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Married 3 July 1884 Whitehaven, Cumberland, Sarah Ann Sumpton (born c. 1867), daughter of Jacob and Mary Jane Young
Children: two sons and two daughters
Widowed 9 April 1941 |
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Methodist |
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Educated locally at Methodist school
Apprenticed to carpenter in Cornwall
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Carpenter |
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1882 left Cornwall to work as builder in Cumberland, where joined several reform movements and worked for temperance
1892–1904 carpenter for Sandover & Company, 1916
Agent-General for Western Australia in London, 24 March 1927–25 March 1933 |
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1897 helped form East Fremantle Municipal Council
Councillor 1897–1927
Mayor 1902–04 |
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1933) |
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In Cumberland joined several reform movements
1886 moved to Victoria
Member Committee War Patriotic Fund for Western Australia
1910–25 Fremantle Municipal Tramway and Electric Lighting Board
Board of Management Fremantle Public Hospital
Chairman of two Royal Commissions on wheat
1936 presided over Rural Relief Trust |
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D Black and G Bolton, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1890-1930 , Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 28. |
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