Parliamentary Service |
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MLC |
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Liberal |
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29 December 1890 |
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Nominated |
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State (WA)
Electorates
- Nominated MLC 29 December 1890–June 1894
- MLC South-West Province 16 July 1894–19 February 1916
Conventions
- Delegate to Federation Council of Australasia 1895, 1897, 1899
- Delegate to Federal Convention 1897–1898
Historical Notes
- Father of the House 22 May 1906–19 February 1916
State (Victoria)
Electorates
- Contested Normanby, February 1880
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1916 |
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Personal Information |
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4 February 1848 (possibly 1847) |
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near Bray, Wicklow, Ireland, United Kingdom |
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19 February 1916 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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To WA June 1882 |
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Son of Rev John Winthrop, Church of Ireland minister, and Jane Sophia Monck (nee Mason) |
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Married 3 August 1905, St Mary’s Church, Busselton to Deborah Vernon Drake-Brockman (born circa August 1887 and died circa April 1965), daughter of Frederick Slade and Grace Vernon Bussell (Lady Hackett also married Sir Frank Beaumont Moulden in 1918 and Basil Buller Murphy in 1936)
Children: one son and four daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; BA 1871, MA 1874, Irish bar 1874, Hon LL D (1902)
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Editor, farmer and manager |
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In Melbourne 1876 as Vice-Principal (sub-warden) Trinity College, University of Melbourne
Contributed to Age and Melbourne Review
To WA June 1882, managed sheep station in Gascoyne
1883 with Charles Harper, partner and business manager at West Australian, editor 1887, full owner from 1912 |
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Knight (Kt) (1911) Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) (1913) |
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To Sydney 1875 |
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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, 2001, p. 87. |
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JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 327, 583–584 (port.)
Lyall Hunt, 'Hackett, Sir John Winthrop (1848–1916)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hackett-sir-john-winthrop-6514/text11181, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 22 December 2015.
Kimberly, p. 21–23.
Russell, p. 221–222.
Twentieth Century Impressions, 24, 171–72.
West Australian, 21 February 1916. |