Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Country Party |
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12 April 1930 |
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Toodyay |
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Electorates
- MLA Toodyay 12 April 1930–21 March 1959
Office
- Minister for Lands, Agriculture (until 5 January 1948), Labour and Immigration (from 7 October 1949) 1 April 1947–23 February 1953
- Deputy Leader of the Country Party 1943–1956
Committees
- Member Select Committee on the Wroth Bankruptcy Case 1931
- Member Select Committee on the Western Australian Turf Club (WATC) (Property) Private Bill 1944
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Personal Information |
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7 June 1891 |
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York, Western Australia |
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13 July 1971 |
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St Joseph’s Hospital, Bicton, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta cemetery, WA |
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Son of Thomas Henry Thorn, flour miller, and Isabella Blakiston |
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Married (1) 23 August 1913, Wesley Church, South Fremantle to Sarah Olive Neilson (born circa 1893), milliner, daughter of Charles Neilson and Sarah Grace Fielding
Children: one son and three daughters
Widowed 26 October 1952
Married (2) 12 November 1953, St Oswald’s Church, Swanbourne to Jane Eliza Jones (died 6 December 1985), daughter of Frederick Thomas Jones and Jane Eliza Byfield
No children |
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Church of England |
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Educated Beaconsfield Primary School, and Fremantle Boys School
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Viticulturist |
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Worked as a labourer in Perth and horse driver prior to World War I
Enlisted Australian Imperial Force September (7 October) 1915
Served with 1st Division Armoured Corps in Egypt and France as driver
Returned to Australia 22 December 1918, discharged 4 April 1919
After war in viticulture industry in Swan Valley near Midland Junction |
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Chairman of directors Swan Valley Dried Fruits
Member State Executive Return Services League of Australia for ten years
Chairman Anzac House and Club Committee
Member Toodyay Club |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 255.
Ferguson, Alan. Leading personalities of Western Australia, p. 98.
West Australian 15 July 1971.
Who's Who Australia (1955) |
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