Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Nationalist |
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29 September 1917 |
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Albany |
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Electorates
- MLA Albany 29 September 1917–2 May 1919
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1919 |
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Personal Information |
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29 December 1876 |
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Red Hill, Blackwood, Victoria, Australia |
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2 May 1919 |
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St George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia |
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Albany Cemetery, WA |
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Arrived in Western Australia 1878 with family to Albany |
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Son of John, bank manager/merchant, and Margaret Thomson
Brother of Robert Thomson Robinson, lawyer and politician |
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Married 9 July 1907, Methodist Church, South Dublin, Ireland to Margurite (Meta) Sarah Christy, daughter of William Stanley
Children: two sons and one daughter |
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Methodist |
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Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia
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Businessperson |
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After leaving school joined father’s business, Drew Robinson & Co, a department store which was founded 1888
Merchant, became junior partner with his father who died 1926 |
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Mayor of Albany November 1912–November 1915 |
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Life fellow Royal Colonial Institute, London
Life member British and Foreign Sailors Society and Australian Natives’ Association |
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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. 171. |
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