William Charles Angwin was an Australian politician who was Deputy Premier of Western Australia from 1924 until 1927, and Agent-General for Western Australia in London from 1927 until 1933.
11 Facts About William Angwin
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William Angwin was a founding member of the East Fremantle Municipal Council and a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for the Labor Party from 1904 until 1927, representing the seats of East Fremantle and North-East Fremantle.
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William Angwin was educated locally at a Methodist school before being apprenticed to a carpenter.
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William Angwin left Cornwall in 1882 to work as a builder in Whitehaven, Cumberland, where he joined several reform movements and worked for temperance.
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William Angwin filed a petition against his return, and on 12 April 1906, the seat was declared vacant by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the basis that 26 votes were incorrectly recorded.
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When Labor came back to power under John Scaddan at the 1911 election, William Angwin was made an honorary minister in the Scaddan Ministry.
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William Angwin served on the Fremantle Municipal Tramway and Electric Lighting Board, the War Patriotic Fund for WA and the Fremantle Public Hospital Board during this time.
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When Labor returned to power at the 1924 election, William Angwin became Minister for Lands and Immigration.
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William Angwin retired from politics at the following election, and on 24 March 1927 was appointed Agent-General for Western Australia in London.
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William Angwin left England on 25 March 1933, and chaired two Royal Commissions on wheat in 1935 and 1938, and presided over the Rural Relief Trust in 1936.
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William Angwin died on 9 June 1944 in East Fremantle, and was buried in the Methodist section of Fremantle Cemetery.