Mr Dowell Phillip O'REILLY (1865 - 1923)**
- Date of Birth: 01/01/1865
- Place of Birth: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Date of Death: 05/11/1923
- Place of Death: Leura, New South Wales, Australia
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Parliamentary Service
| Position | Start | End | Period | Notes |
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| Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly | 17 Jul 1894 | 8 Jul 1898 | 3yr(s) 11mth(s) 22day(s)
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| Member for Parramatta | 17 Jul 1894 | 5 Jul 1895 | 11mth(s) 19day(s)
16th (1894 - 1895) |  |
| Member for Parramatta | 24 Jul 1895 | 8 Jul 1898 | 2yr(s) 11mth(s) 15day(s)
17th (1895 - 1898) | |
| The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.1 | 12 May 1896 | 12 May 1896 | 1day
17th (1895 - 1898) | |
| Old Age Pension Committee No.9 | 16 Jun 1896 | 16 Sep 1896 | 3mths 1day
17th (1895 - 1898) | |
| Pitt Town Settlement Committee No.30 | 6 Oct 1896 | 12 Nov 1896 | 1mth 7days
17th (1895 - 1898) | |
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Qualifications, occupations and interests
Schoolmaster. Educated at Sydney Grammar. Assisted mother in keeping preparatory school for boys at Parramatta. Master at Sydney Grammar from 1898 from 1909. Officer in Commonwealth Taxation Office from 1910. Poet and short story writer of distinction.
Personal
Son of Canon O'Reilly. Married (1) Eleanor McCulloch in 1895. Married (2) Marie Miles in 1917.
Additional Information
Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: 1. Dowell Phillip O'Reilly - papers, 1884 - 1923 (MLMSS 231) 2. Dowell O'Reilly - papers, 1891 - 1920 (MLMSS 3505); photographs in the PICMAN Database.
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