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Mr Edmund WEBB (1830 - 1899)

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Date of Birth: 04/09/1830
Place of Birth: Liskeard, Cornwall, England
Date of Death: 24/06/1899
Place of Death: Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 22 Aug 1882 23 Jun 1899 16 years 10 months 2 days Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 29 December 1881
Grafton Presbyterian Church Land Sale Bill Committee No.24 28 Oct 1881 24 Nov 1881 28 days
Refreshment Room No.5 06 Jul 1881 20 Dec 1881 5 months 15 days
Refreshment Room No.4 17 Dec 1880 06 Apr 1881 3 months 21 days
Member for East Macquarie 23 Nov 1880 29 Dec 1881 1 year 1 month 7 days
Petition of Mr E.W Rudder Committee No.26 22 Jun 1880 09 Jul 1880 18 days
Petition of Mr E.W Rudder Committee No.18 12 Nov 1878 24 Jul 1879 8 months 13 days
Member for East Macquarie 01 Feb 1878 09 Nov 1880 2 years 9 months 9 days
Goulburn Cattle Sale Yards Bill Committee No.10 24 Nov 1874 26 Nov 1874 3 days
Lithgow Valley Colliery Railway Bill Committee No.12 14 Oct 1873 15 Oct 1873 2 days
Working of Municipalities Committee No.7 19 Sep 1873 22 Apr 1874 7 months 4 days
Fire Brigades Bill Committee No.25 14 Feb 1873 25 Apr 1873 2 months 12 days
Claim of Mr Stephen Scholey Committee No.20 04 Feb 1873 21 Apr 1873 2 months 18 days
Petition of John Dargin Committee No.14 26 Nov 1872 31 Jan 1873 2 months 6 days Chairman
Bathurst Gas Bill Committee No.7 14 Jun 1872 21 Jun 1872 8 days
Opening Speech of the Administrator of the Government Committee No.1 01 May 1872 01 May 1872 1 day
Member for West Macquarie 24 Feb 1872 28 Nov 1874 2 years 9 months 5 days
Bathurst Gas Company’s Bill Committee No.7 29 Nov 1871 06 Dec 1871 8 days
Petition of Hugh Maguire Committee No.6 18 Aug 1870 07 Oct 1870 1 month 20 days
Goulburn School Trust Bill Committee No.16 03 Mar 1870 09 Mar 1870 7 days
Sydney Infirmary Committee No.14 01 Mar 1870 22 Apr 1870 1 month 25 days
Member for West Macquarie 15 Dec 1869 03 Feb 1872 2 years 1 month 20 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 15 Dec 1869 29 Dec 1881 12 years 15 days
Political Party Activity
Community Activity
Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Softgoods manufacturer and merchant. Educated at Saltash. Arrived in Sydney with mother and sisters on 13 September 1847. Worked for 3 years with a draper in Bathurst and opened own drapery business in 1851; prospered and took on a partner under style of Webb & Co. 1866, manufacturing own clothing, millinery, footwear and supplying much of western New South Wales; retired from active business in 1880. Acquired much property in and around Bathurst. Firm started newspaper in 1881. Founding member and later trustee of Bathurst Mechanics' School of Arts; Member of building committee of the District Hospital in 1876, treasurer from 1882 until 1893; Vice president of Bathurst Agricultural Horticultural and Pastoral Association. Deputy licensing magistrate in 1891; Vice president of Local Option League in 1890. Commissioner of Sydney International Exhibition in 1879. Foundation vice president. Free Trade Association of New South Wales in 1885, dedicated Wesleyan Methodist. Chaired Bathurst circuit meetings; member of Australasian Wesleyan Methodist annual conference in 1860s; founder of Newington College and on the council from 1879 until 1897; Member of council of Methodist Ladies College, Burwood from 1890 until 1897.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Member of Bathurst Borough Council in 1863; Mayor in 1866, 1868, 1875 until 1877.
Personal
Youngest son of Thomas Webb, farmer, and Catherine Geake. Married Selina Jane Jones on 18 January 1854 at Springfield, near Bathurst and had issue, 2 daughters and 3 sons. Wesleyan Methodist.
Additional Information
Biography and portrait in ‘Australian Men of Mark’, Volume 1. Sydney, [?1889] , page 84

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