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Australian politician
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John Kirkpatrick |
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| In office 27 June 1891 – 25 June 1894 |
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| In office 17 June 1894 – 25 July 1895 |
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| Born | 1839-40 |
| Died | 8 December 1904 (aged 64) |
| Spouse | Bridget Annie Strong |
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John Kirkpatrick (1840 – 8 December 1904) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
John Kirkpatrick was born in 1840 in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, the son of Simon and Elizabeth Kirkpatrick. He was educated at a public school in Glasgow.[1][2]
Kirkpatrick was apprenticed as a tailor to his uncle, “with the purpose of succeeding him in business”.[1]
In 1860, “dissatisfied with life at home”, Kirkpatrick “accepted an engagement” in New Zealand on a salary of four hundred pounds a year. After gold was discovered in the Central Otago region of the South Island, he became a miner at the diggings “with varying success”.[1][2]
When cotton became a valuable commodity as a result of the American Civil War, Kirkpatrick went to Fiji to plant and harvest cotton. However, his enterprise met with “little success, owing to the frequency of hurricanes“.[1][2]
in 1871 Kirkpatrick came to New South Wales.[2] First at Gulgong and then at Coonabarabran, where he established a store and was twice mayor.
He then moved to Gunnedah, where he also served on council and was a director of a co-operative butchery.
From about the late 1870s Kirkpatrick began a de facto relationship with Bridget Annie Strong. Five children were born to the couple from 1880 to 1879 (one daughter and four sons). John Kirkpatrick and Bridget Annie Strong were married in 1890 at Gunnedah. Four more children were born to the couple from 1891 to 1896 (two sons and two daughters).[3][A]
In 1891 Kirkpatrick was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Gunnedah, as one of the first group of Labor Party members. Re-elected in 1894, he did not contest the 1895 election, although he did contest the 1898 election as a Free Trade candidate.
Kirkpatrick died on 8 December 1904 at Gunnedah.[4]
