Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor |
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11 September 1908 |
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Collie |
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State
Electorates
- MLA Collie 11 September 1908–17 February 1947
Office
- Parliamentary Labor Party Whip for 20 years
Commonwealth
Electorates
- Contested Flinders (Victorian House of Representatives) 16 December 1903
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Personal Information |
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3 April 1864 |
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Drakemire, Dalry, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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19 August 1948 |
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Inglewood, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1904 to WA |
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Son of Joseph Wilson, iron miner, and Elizabeth Wilson nee McGookin |
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Married 14 April 1892, residence of John Lamb, Coalville, Victoria to Mary Jane Lamb (died circa January 1953), millworker, daughter of John and Elizabeth Gibbons
Children: one son and two daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Miner |
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Started work in the Scottish coalmines at the age of 12 years
By 1885 working in the South Gippsland, Victoria coal mines as check weighman at Outtrim
Secretary, Victoria Coal Miners’ Association
Blacklisted after 1903–1904 strike
Secretary, Collie Miners’ Union
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force 2 March 1917
Served with 11th Field Company Engineers, transferred from Tunnelling Company's reinforcements, Engineer Sergeant
Returned to Australia 16 March 1919, discharged 31 May 1919 |
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Order of the British Empire (OBE) 1948 |
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Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 355.
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. 206.
Ross, E. A History of the Miners' Federation of Australia, Chapter 9.
West Australian, 14 September 1908, 20 August 1948. |
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