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Mr Robert Bliss WILKINSON (1838 - 1928)

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Date of Birth: 01/01/1838
Place of Birth: Northampton, England
Date of Death: 26/04/1928
Place of Death: Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
Parliamentary Service
Position Start End Period Notes
Hay Athenaeum Trustees Enabling Bill Committee No.17 19 Jan 1893 01 Feb 1893 14 days
Simpson’s Railway Bill Committee No.19 08 Sep 1891 24 Nov 1891 2 months 17 days
Member for Balranald 29 Jun 1891 25 Jun 1894 2 years 11 months 28 days
Conditional Purchase made by Annie Nash O’Brien, at Corowa Committee No.6 26 May 1891 02 Jun 1891 8 days
Hay Athenaeum Trustees Enabling Bill Committee No.48 18 Dec 1890 19 Dec 1890 2 days
Conditional Purchase made by Anne Nash O’Brien at Corowa Committee No.47 16 Dec 1890 20 Dec 1890 5 days
Hay and Deniliquin Tramway Bill Committee No.34 23 Sep 1890 13 Nov 1890 1 month 22 days Chairman
Elections and Qualifications Committee No.2 30 Apr 1890 20 Dec 1890 7 months 21 days
Elections and Qualifications Committee No.2 27 Nov 1889 21 Dec 1889 25 days
Elections and Qualifications Committee No.2 01 Mar 1889 25 Apr 1889 1 month 28 days
Member for Balranald 28 Jan 1889 06 Jun 1891 2 years 4 months 10 days
Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales Incorporation Bill Committee No.8 28 Sep 1887 18 Oct 1887 21 days
Hay and Deniliquin Tramway Bill Committee No.26 02 Jun 1887 30 Jun 1887 29 days Chairman
Member for Balranald 24 Feb 1887 19 Jan 1889 1 year 10 months 27 days
Pharmaceutical Society of New South Wales Incorporation Bill Committee No.55 15 Jul 1886 11 Aug 1886 28 days
Bell’s Estate Bill Committee No.23 30 Mar 1886 26 May 1886 1 month 27 days
Muswellbrook Cattle Saleyards Bill Committee No.17 05 Feb 1886 24 Mar 1886 1 month 20 days
Hay Gas Bill Committee No.16 04 Feb 1886 13 Apr 1886 2 months 10 days Chairman
Kite’s Leasing Bill Committee No.7 04 Dec 1885 17 Dec 1886 1 year 14 days
Library Committee No.4 03 Dec 1885 25 Oct 1886 10 months 23 days
Member for Balranald 28 Oct 1885 26 Jan 1887 1 year 2 months 30 days
Hay Gas Bill Committee No.22 01 Oct 1885 02 Oct 1885 2 days
Member for Balranald 07 Dec 1882 07 Oct 1885 2 years 10 months 1 day
The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 22 Aug 1882 22 Aug 1882 1 day
Wagga Wagga Gas Bill Committee No.10 27 Jan 1881 11 Feb 1881 16 days
Member for Balranald 02 Dec 1880 23 Nov 1882 1 year 11 months 22 days
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly 02 Dec 1880 25 Jun 1894 13 years 6 months 24 days
Political Party Activity
Community Activity
Qualifications, occupations and interests
Stock and station agent. Educated at Hanwell College. Arrived in Victoria in 1852. Entered Bank of Victoria in 1853; worked in Castlemaine and Maryborough branches. Joined J.S Lavender in running Marra station, near Wagga in 1865; sold out after a few years. Founded Wilkinson & Lavender, stock and station agents of Sydney, Hay, Wagga Wagga and Bourke in 1870. Managing director of 1901; retired in 1927, but on death of successor assumed control until a few days before death. For some years was a trustee of the Graziers Association. Member of the Sheepbreeders Association and the Australian Jockey Club.
Military Service
Honours Received
Membership of other Parliaments & Offices Held
Local Government Activity
Personal
Son of David Wilkinson, engineer, and Elizabeth Bliss. Married (1) Alice Georgiana Foss Jarrett on 15 November 1882 at South Yarra, Victoria, and had no issue. Married (2) Annie Louise Leitch (Lavender) on 26 February 1890 at Burwood and had issue, 2 daughters and 1 son. Church of England.
Additional Information
Biography and portrait in ‘Australian Men of Mark’, Volume 1. Sydney, [?1889] , page 285

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