Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                

About: Edmund Birch

An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Edmund Birch (1831 – 16 January 1875) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1875. Born in England in 1831, Birch emigrated to Western Australia on the Parkfield in March 1841. There he was apprenticed to George Shenton Sr as a pharmacist. From 1852 to 1853, he was an assistant at the Colonial Hospital (now Royal Perth Hospital). He then went into partnership with his father and brother as pharmacists and grocers in Perth. In May 1856 he married Anne Hymus; they would have eight children.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Edmund Birch (1831 – 16 January 1875) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1875. Born in England in 1831, Birch emigrated to Western Australia on the Parkfield in March 1841. There he was apprenticed to George Shenton Sr as a pharmacist. From 1852 to 1853, he was an assistant at the Colonial Hospital (now Royal Perth Hospital). He then went into partnership with his father and brother as pharmacists and grocers in Perth. In May 1856 he married Anne Hymus; they would have eight children. Birch began to take an interest in public life, becoming vice president of the and chairman of the . In 1862 he was a founding director of the Perth Building Society. The following year he became a member of the Perth Municipal Council, which position he held until his death. He became a member of the Perth Board of Education, a director of the WA Bank, and in 1872 was captain of the . On 19 October 1870, Birch contested the Legislative Council's seat of Perth, but was unsuccessful. On 18 November 1873, he contested the seat again in a by-election. He won the seat, holding it until his death. He died on 16 January 1875 as a result of injuries from a fire. (en)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 2572047 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2111 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1053653387 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Edmund Birch (1831 – 16 January 1875) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1875. Born in England in 1831, Birch emigrated to Western Australia on the Parkfield in March 1841. There he was apprenticed to George Shenton Sr as a pharmacist. From 1852 to 1853, he was an assistant at the Colonial Hospital (now Royal Perth Hospital). He then went into partnership with his father and brother as pharmacists and grocers in Perth. In May 1856 he married Anne Hymus; they would have eight children. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Edmund Birch (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:predecessor of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:predecessor of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License