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Charles Morris (Australian politician)

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He represented Port Adelaide on the Fire Brigade Board. He was a keen athlete, and actively concerned in all the athletic clubs in his district. He was a prominent bowler; he founded the Port Adelaide District Cricket Club, and was both its President and the club's delegate to the
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His first public office was in 1899, when he was elected Councillor for Cleave Ward in the municipality of
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candidate for the Central district, filling the seat made vacant by the death of
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He died at a private hospital after suffering from typhoid and pneumonia.
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the eldest son of C. E. Morris, and moved when very young to
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Members of the South Australian Legislative Council
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Index


Noarlunga
Underdale
Theophilus Robin
Theodore Hack
Port Adelaide
House of Assembly
seat of Port Adelaide
Thompson Green
Liberal Union
Theodore Bruce
South Australian Cricket Association
School Board of Advice
Adelaide Hospital
Unley Park
"Mr. C. R. Morris"
The Chronicle
"Charles Richard Morris"
Parliament of South Australia
"Death of Mr. C. R. Morris"
The Register
Categories
Australian timber merchants
Members of the South Australian Legislative Council
1863 births
1918 deaths
19th-century Australian businesspeople
Colony of South Australia people

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