Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor
Independent Labor after 1905 |
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24 April 1901 |
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Mount Burges |
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Electorates
- MLA Mt Burges, 24 April 1901–June 1904
- Contested Yilgarn, 27 October 1905
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1904 |
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Personal Information |
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1849 |
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Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom |
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18 November 1924 |
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Cottesloe, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia.
Presbyterian Area, EA section, 0365 grave site |
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Arrived WA 1896, on Eastern Goldfields |
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Son of Archibald, schoolmaster (?) and Margaret Gawn (Gason) |
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Married 28 December 1874, Armadale, Bathgate, Scotland to Rachel Menzies (born circa 1854 and died 5 September 1946), daughter of George and Magdalena Easton
Children: five sons and four daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Local schools
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Miner and union secretary |
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Ironstone miner, began work in pit in Linlithgow at age of 12 years
General secretary, Labour, Electoral and Social Leagues, Newcastle
After leaving Parliament, farming with his sons at York, 1909 and Dulbelling, 1912 |
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Arrived Sydney, NSW 1878 and WA 1896
President, Australian Workers Association (AWA) in Leonora and Malcolm districts; secretary Coolgardie branch
Justice of the Peace and licensing magistrate to 1905
Chairman, Goldfields Ambulance Society
Retired to Cottesloe |
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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. 168.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 12 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=193bbd48-ec1c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf |
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