Members’ biographical register

Hon Thomas Burges

House

MLC

Date first elected

24 December 1890

Year Retired/Resigned

1893

Electorate(s)

Nominated

Inaugural Speech

Burges, Thomas, Inaugural Speech.pdf

Valedictory Video

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC North District 31 December 1874–31 January 1878 (resigned)
Nominated MLC 11 July 1885–9 June 1887 (resigned), 24 December 1890–7 August 1893
Contested Geraldton, 27 October 1884

Personal Information

Death date

7 August 1893

Place of death

Perth, Western Australia

Cemetery

Bowes House, Northampton, WA

Occupation

Farmer

Employment History

1859 took over Bowes station from his uncle William Burges to become a pastoralist
Circa 1872 acquired Yuin Station in Murchison, helped open stock route north to Gascoyne

Local Government

Northampton Road Board 1871–1877 member and chairman Geraldton Town Council 1891 member

Background/Membership

1850s made several visits to North-West
Member Geraldton Agricultural Society
1863, Justice of the Peace
1890 member Geraldton Board of Education

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 41 R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE HON. THOMAS BURGES. (1893, August 18). Victorian Express (Geraldton, WA : 1878 - 1894), p. 3. Retrieved February 21, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article211774280
Government Gazette,1863, pp. 63, 219.
Victorian Express, 11 August 1893.

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