Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Liberal to 1914
Country Party 1914–1917 then Country Party Nationalist
President National Political League |
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24 April 1901 |
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Albany |
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Electorates
- MLA Albany 24 April 1901–28 June 1904; Irwin 21 October 1914–12 March 1921
- Contested Irwin 30 October 1911
Office
- Colonial Treasurer 1 July 1902–28 April 1904, 28 June 1917–1 April 1919
- Speaker 1 March–28 June 1917
- First Parliamentary Leader of Country Party in Western Australia November 1914–March 1915
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1921 |
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Personal Information |
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12 June 1861 |
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Papakua Valley near Auckland, New Zealand |
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27 October 1928 |
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Westminster Hospital, Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1895 |
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Son of George, farmer, and Mary Craig |
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Married 22 April 1889, Northcote, Victoria to Emily Louisa Browne (born circa January 1860), daughter of John Edward and Eliza Doney
Children: three sons and three daughters
Widowed 22 August 1925 |
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Church of England |
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Saddleworth, South Australia 1867-1872
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Farmer and auctioneer |
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Spent three years with South Australian Carrying Company
Circa 1882–1893 with William Hamilton and Company, stock and station agents, Victoria
Established Western Australian branch of Gordon and Gotch
1900 began own business
Director Commercial Union Assurance Company (Western Australian branch), South Perth Ferry Company
Owned farm near Moora |
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Arrived Australia 1867
Chairman first Cricket Council of Western Australia |
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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, 2010, p. 77. |
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'Gardiner, James (1861–1928)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/gardiner-james-6276/text10817, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 21 December 2015. |