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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

William Burges

Parliamentary Service

House

MLC

Date Elected

24 November 1875

Electorate

Nominated

Service

Electorates

Nominated MLC 24 November 1875–25 July 1876 (resigned)

Year Retired/Resigned

1876

Personal Information

Birth date

1806 or 1808

Place of birth

Fethard, Tipperary, Ireland

Death date

16 October 1876

Place of death

Fethard, Ireland

Arrived in WA

Arrived WA March 1830 on Warrior with two brothers

Parents

Son of Dr Richard Lockier Burges and Isabella Evans Brother of Lockier Clere Burges, uncle of Thomas Burges and Richard Burges

Marriage and Family

Unmarried

Religion

Church of England

Occupation

Farmer

Employment History

1830–1837 farmer in upper Swan
Resident Magistrate, Champion Bay (Geraldton) 1851–1860
1853 sub-collector of customs and visiting magistrate convict depot, Port Gregory

Background/Membership

1837 to Tipperary, York
1841–1844 in Ireland
Returned to York
Justice of the Peace, 1846
Secretary York Agricultural Society 1847, petitioned for convict transportation
1850 to Bowes, Champion Bay
1860 returned to Ireland
Revisited WA 1868 and 1875–1876

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, WA, 2001, p. 7.

Further Information

R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
Inquirer, 14 April 1875, 13 and 20 December 1876.
M. Tamblyn, 'Burges, William (1806–1876)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/burges-william-1852/text2149, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 17 December 2015.