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22 November 1870 |
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Fremantle |
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Electorates
- Nominated MLC 22 November 1870–26 December 1872 (resigned)
- Contested Fremantle 21 October 1870
- MLC Fremantle 31 December 1872 (by-election)–21 October 1890
- MLA Fremantle 5 December 1890–4 July 1896
Office
- Commissioner for Crown Lands 29 December 1890–4 December 1894
- Sat on nearly 100 select committees and royal commissions
Conventions
- Member Federal Convention, Sydney 1891
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Personal Information |
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22 October 1845 |
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Fremantle, Western Australia |
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4 July 1896 |
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South Terrace, Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Fremantle Cemetery. Monument erected in Mayor’s Park, Fremantle, Western Australia |
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Son of William Patrick, merchant and licensed victualler, and Charlotte Stone, and father-in-law of Arthur Valentine Rutherford Abbott |
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Married 28 December 1870, Catholic Church, Fremantle to Anna Mary Gibbons (born 4 May 1853), daughter of Peter and Margaret Murphy
Children: three sons and six daughters |
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Catholic |
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Educated Fremantle, Perth
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Businessperson and consul |
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Started work at 16 years, master in mercantile service at 21 years
Merchant, began own business in Fremantle, developed pastoral, pearling and maritime interests
Leased millions of acres of pastoral land, early station owner in Kimberley
Established mining companies in Yilgarn
Consul for Netherlands |
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Fremantle Town Council 1871–1873 |
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Catholic member Central Board of Education 1871-1895
Justice of the Peace, 1872 |
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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. 136. |
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R. T. Appleyard, 'Marmion, William Edward (1845–1896)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/marmion-william-edward-7494/text13063, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 15 December 2015.
Erickson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians pre 1829-1888,vol. 3.
Kimberly, WB. History of West Australia, p. 204–266.
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 191. |