Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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28 June 1904 |
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Perth |
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Electorates
- MLA Perth from 28 June 1904 to 3 October 1911
- Contested Perth 3 October 1911
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 Brown, Harry, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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1911 |
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Personal Information |
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6 May 1863 |
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Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom |
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19 January 1925 |
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West Perth, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, WA |
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Came to Western Australia, circa 1887–1892 |
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Thomas Brown, basket maker, and Ellen O’Donell |
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Married 26 April 1890, St George’s Cathedral Perth, to Myra Minnie Pether (born 15 December 1864), daughter of Richard William and Elizabeth Birch
Children: one son and one daughter |
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Church of England |
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Leighton Buzzard
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Clerk and manager |
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In office of the land steward to Baroness de Rothschild, 1876–1883
Captain, Cape Mounted Rifles, purchased discharge, 1883–1887
Law Clerk, Stone and Burt solicitors
Secretary, then manager, Perth Building Society, 1892–1918, suspended following allegations of financial impropriety |
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Secretary, Perth Road Board, 1903–1905
Member, Perth City Council, 1898–1905
Chairman, Municipal Works Committee, 1901
Mayor, Perth, 1903–1905 |
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Emigrated to South Africa in 1883
Member, Perth Licensing Branch
Deputy chairman, Perth Hospital Board
Justice of the Peace
Managing Trustee, WA Cricket ground
Death date recorded as 17 January 1925 on Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website |
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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, 2010, p. 38.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 22 June. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=fbffb9b7-f41c-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0 |
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