Frank Troy
Frank Troy | |
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Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
In office 1 November 1911 – 13 February 1917 | |
Preceded by | Timothy Quinlan |
Succeeded by | Bertie Johnston |
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
In office 24 June 1904 – 18 March 1939 | |
Preceded by | Frank Wallace |
Succeeded by | Lucien Triat |
Constituency | Mount Magnet |
Personal details | |
Born | Labor | 13 October 1877
Michael Francis "Frank" Troy (13 October 1877 – 7 January 1953) was an Australian politician who served in the
Early life and business career
Troy's parents were Ellen (née Maloney) and Patrick Troy, both Irish Catholic immigrants from County Tipperary. He was born at Pimlico, New South Wales, the locality on the Richmond River (near Ballina) where his father's farm was located.[1] Troy's father died when he was very young, and his mother subsequently moved her ten children to the nearby town of Wardell, where she ran a store.[2] Initially training as a schoolteacher, Troy left the profession after only two years, and instead worked various jobs in the country. He arrived in Western Australia in 1897 with the intention of prospecting for gold in the colony's Murchison region. There, he became involved in the local trade union movement, serving in leadership roles with both the Australian Workers' Union (AWU) and the Amalgamated Workers' Association (AWA) at various stages.[1] Troy quickly rose to become secretary of the Murchison district AWA branch, succeeding John Holman (who had entered parliament).[3]
Parliamentary career
Early years and speakership
At the
Troy again faced only a single opponent at the early
Like almost all future Labor speakers, Troy shunned some of the regalia normally associated with the speakership, first not wearing the traditional wig, and then also dispensing with the gown.
Front bench
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Later life and death
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Troy died in Mount Lawley, the Perth suburb in which he had long been resident, in January 1953, after a long illness. He had married Flora Brown Mackinnon in April 1913, when he was 35.[1] It was the first marriage for both of them (she being several years older than him), and the couple never had children, with Flora Troy dying just over a year before her husband.[13]
Notes
- the only preceding Labor government, that of Henry Daglish.
References
- ^ a b c Black, David, and Bolton, Geoffrey (1990). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: Volume One (1870–1930) Archived 16 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine, p. 195.
- ^ "MRS. ELLEN TROY." – Catholic Freeman's Journal (Sydney), 17 November 1938.
- ^ "STATE POLITICS." – Westralian Worker, 24 August 1902.
- ^ "MT MAGNET ELECTORATE." – Mount Magnet Miner and Lennonville Leader, 4 June 1904.
- ^ "MR. M. F. TROY ELECTED" – The West Australian, 2 July 1904.
- ^ "THE POLITICAL SITUATION." – The West Australian, 12 August 1904.
- ^ "GENERAL EXECUTIVE A.W.A. – Westralian Worker, 11 November 1904.
- ^ "COUNTRY AND GOLDFIELDS ELECTORATES." – The West Australian, 30 October 1905.
- ^ "THE NEW PARLIAMENT." – The West Australian, 25 November 1905.
- ^ "TO MR. M. F. TROY, M.L.A." – Mount Magnet Miner and Lennonville Leader, 3 October 1908.
- ^ "THE NOMINATIONS." – The Western Mail, 30 September 1911.
- ^ "MR. M. F. TROY ELECTED SPEAKER." – Wickepin Argus, 4 November 1911.
- ^ a b "DEATH OF MR. M. F. TROY AFTER LONG ILLNESS" – The West Australian, 8 January 1953.
- ^ "IN THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY." – The West Australian, 27 June 1913.
- ^ "NEWS AND NOTES." – The West Australian, 4 July 1912.
- ^ "MR. TROY ELECTED SPEAKER" – Kalgoorlie Miner, 4 December 1914.
- ^ The Nominations. – Westralian Worker, 16 October 1914.
- ^ "LATE SPEAKER INTERVIEWED." – The Western Mail, 16 February 1917.
- ^ "MR E. B. JOHNSTON ELECTED SPEAKER." – Great Southern Leader (Pingelly), 16 February 1917.