Obituaries Australia

14 February, 1870
Shawfield, Lanarkshire, Scotland

4 December, 1924 (aged 54)
Petersham, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Scottish

• Baptist

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• Bowling, Peter (colleague)
• Peters, Ernest Robert (colleague)

• coalminer (1885-1914) New South Wales, Australia
• temperance advocate (1885-1924) New South Wales, Australia
• trade union official (1890-1914) New South Wales, Australia
• labour politician (1914-1917) Federal, Australia
• Member of Upper House (1914-1917) Federal, Australia
• anti-conscriptionist (1916-1917) New South Wales, Australia

• Independent Order of Good Templars (member, ?-1924)
• Independent Order of Rechabites (member, ?-1924)
• New South Wales Prohibition Alliance (lecturer, ?-1924)
• Colliery Employees' Federation (NSW) (member, 1885)
• Colliery Employees' Federation (NSW) (president, 1910-1914)
• Australian Labor Federation (NSW) (vice-president, 1913)

• ALP (NSW) (member, 1895)
• anti-conscriptionist (politician, 1916-1917)

• Northern District Miners' Federation (NSW) (president, 1910-1914)
• Parliament of Australia (Senate - member, 1914-1917)