Wallace Nelson

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Wallace Nelson
Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
for Hannans
In office
28 June 1904 – 27 October 1905
Preceded byThomas Bath
Succeeded byFrancis Ware
Personal details
Born
Wallace Alexander Nelson

(1856-04-29)29 April 1856
Labor Party

Wallace Alexander Nelson (29 April 1856 – 5 May 1943) was a short term

Labor Party
in those days, having much experience at oration and writing. He later moved on to editing newspapers, and writing books.

Biography

Born in

Kalgoorlie, Western Australia
.

In Kalgoorlie, he was editor of the Westralian Worker until December 1902,[2] having taken over from Thomas Bath, then the Kalgoorlie Sun and Figaro. After his stint in parliament he moved to Perth, where he edited the Perth Democrat, was leader writer for the Daily News and contributed to the literary journal Leeuwin. After two years in England, he moved to Sydney in 1916 where he edited the Australasian Manufacturer until a few months before his death in 1943.

Nelson was an official lecturer on the Great White Train tour of New South Wales country towns in 1925–26.[3]

He was also the author of a number of books.[4][5]

Notes

  1. ^ "Capricornia Returns Complete: Mr Paterson's Majority 139". Morning Bulletin: 5. 12 April 1901.
  2. Cairns Morning Post
    . 3 May 1901. p. 2. Retrieved 12 March 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ Jill Roe (1986). "Nelson, Wallace Alexander (1856–1943)". Australian Dictionary of Biography: Nelson, Wallace Alexander (1856–1943). National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
  4. ^ Nelson, Wallace (1910), Foster Fraser's fallacies: and other Australian essays, Gordon & Gotch, retrieved 12 March 2013
  5. ^ Nelson, Wallace; Atkinson, Meredith, 1883-1929; Boote, Henry E. (Henry Ernest), 1868-1949 (1919), Letters to John Workman and capital and labour at the bar of reason, Manufacturer Publishing Co, retrieved 12 March 2013{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

References

Western Australian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Member for Hannans
1904–1905
Succeeded by