Mr William AFFLECK (1836 - 1923)

Date of Birth: 05/03/1836
Place of Birth: West Wemyss, Fifeshire, Scotland
Date of Death: 06/03/1923
Place of Death: Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Start	End	Period	Parliament	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	17 Jul 1894	16 Jul 1904	9yr(s) 11mth(s) 30day(s)
Member for Yass	17 Jul 1894	5 Jul 1895	11mth(s) 19day(s)	16th (1894 - 1895)
Member for Yass	24 Jul 1895	8 Jul 1898	2yr(s) 11mth(s) 15day(s)	17th (1895 - 1898)
Member for Yass	27 Jul 1898	11 Jun 1901	2yr(s) 10mth(s) 16day(s)	18th (1898 - 1901)
Member for Yass	3 Jul 1901	16 Jul 1904	3yr(s) 14day(s)	19th (1901 - 1904)
Presbyterian Church Property Management Amendment Bill. Committee No. 10	22 Nov 1894	5 Jul 1895	7mths 14days	16th (1894 - 1895)
Selection made by Martin Tully Committee No.8	17 Sep 1895	17 Oct 1895	1mth 1day	17th (1895 - 1898)
Dismissal of Constable Easterbrook Committee No.7	17 Sep 1895	20 Nov 1895	2mths 4days	17th (1895 - 1898)
Claim of Samuel and Mary Lemon Committee No. 10	30 Aug 1898	23 Dec 1898	3mths 24days	18th (1898 - 1901)
The Lieutenant Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1	11 Apr 1899	11 Apr 1899	1day	18th (1898 - 1901)
The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1	18 Jul 1899	18 Jul 1899	1day	18th (1898 - 1901)
Tamworth Showground Bill Committee No.15	26 Oct 1899	23 Dec 1899	1mth 28days	18th (1898 - 1901)
Yass Roman Catholic Church Trustees Enabling Bill Committee No.24	21 Dec 1899	22 Dec 1899	2days	18th (1898 - 1901)
Conditional Purchase of George Humphries Cowled Committee No. 10	3 Jul 1900	26 Jul 1900	24days	18th (1898 - 1901)
Tied Houses Committee No.8	4 Sep 1901	12 Sep 1901	9days	19th (1901 - 1904)	Chairman
Prevalence of the Gambling Evil Committee No.10	20 Aug 1903	1 Dec 1903	3mths 12days	19th (1901 - 1904)
Murrumbidgee Northern Water Supply and Irrigation Bill Committee No.14	11 Sep 1903	24 Nov 1903	2mths 14days	19th (1901 - 1904)

Political Party Activity

Freetrade.

Community Activity

Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1876. Freemason; associated with Australia Protection Defence Association; represented Queanbeyan in the General Assembly Presbyterian Church.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Storekeeper and contractor. Educated in village school to primary level. Apprenticed as confectioner and pastry cook; later worked at rope spinning and in a warehouse. Farm labourer, unsuccessful selector, poundkeeper; later in partnership with father as storekeeper, Gundaroo; contractor for public buildings and roads around Yass. Worked himself up to an independent position when he entered Parliament, but continued as storekeeper. Author of "An Essay on the Best Means of Settling People on the Land" 1893; "Reminiscences", 1916

Personal

Son of Arthur Affleck, storekeeper; (mother's name unknown). Married (1) Catherine Campbell Cameron, on August 1865 and had issue 2 sons. Married (2) Isabella Anderson on 17 June 1880. Arrived on New South Wales in 1855. Went to Gundarro, where lived for 44 years. Presbyterian.

Additional Information

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