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John Arthur Wright
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Birth | | Date: 25 November 1841
Place: St Mary’s Parish, Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom |
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Arrival in WA | | Arrived WA June 1885 on Penola |
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Parents | | Son of John, civil engineer, and Mary Boylan Holahan |
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Marriage and Family | | Married 28 January 1870, Parish Church, Tuxford, Nottinghamshire, England to Katherine Whitington (born 1874), daughter of Peter
Children: two sons and one daughter |
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Death | | Date: 24 February 1920
Place: Albany, Western Australia
Cemetery: Albany Cemetery, WA |
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Religion | | Church of England |
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Education | | Educated privately
Queen Elizabeth School, Cranbrook; Clapham Grammar School
MICE (Member Institute of Civil Engineers)
Articled to Joseph Cubitt, vice-president Institute of Civil Engineers |
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Occupation | | Engineer |
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Employment History | | Worked as engineer England, Spain, USA, France, Russia (at least from 1870–1874)
1889 manager WA Land Company and general manager in charge of construction until completion 1896
Great Southern Railway
Consulting engineer to government
1896–1908 Government Resident at Albany |
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House | | MLC |
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Date Elected | | 24 December 1890 |
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Speeches | | Search for speeches by John Wright |
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Year Retired/Resigned | | 1894 |
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Electorate | | Nominated |
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Parliamentary Service | | Electorates
- Nominated MLC 11 July 1885–18 December 1889, 24 December 1890–June 1894
Office
- Director of Public Works, Engineer-in-Chief and Commissioner of Railways, July 1885–December 1889
Conventions
- Delegate to Sydney Federal Convention 1891
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Background/Membership | | Justice of the Peace
Life president Albany Club
Freemason |
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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. 212. |
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Further Information | | JS Battye, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol II, p. 829.
Pat Bunny, 'Wright, John Arthur (1841–1920)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wright-john-arthur-9201/text16253, published first in hardcopy 1990, accessed online 12 January 2016.
Dictionary of Western Australians, 1829-1914. Volume 4. Part 2, L-Z. The challenging years, 1868-1888.
DS Garden, Albany: A Panorama of the Sound from 1827.
West Australian, 26 February 1920. |
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