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448:, Broome acted as intermediary between the Legislative Council and the British secretary of state. After considerable correspondence, the details of the new constitution were settled, and a bill, approved by Her Majesty's Government, finally passed the local legislature in 1889. Since complementary legislation was needed from Westminster to transfer Crown lands to the colonial legislature, the necessary bill was at once introduced by Lord Knutsford, and passed the House of Lords; but, owing to strong opposition to handing over an immense tract of Crown lands to the colonists, which suddenly showed itself in the home press and in the House of Commons, the bill could not be proceeded with in the House in 1889, and had to be deferred to the following year. 899: 426: 40: 437:, and assumed office in June 1883. He visited England in 1885, when, with the "view of extending knowledge of the resources of what was at that time a little known colony", he read a paper on "Western Australia" before the Colonial Institute, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales taking the chair. That year he donated a small but important collection of Aboriginal artefacts from Western Australia to the 456:
no opposition to the bill in the House of Lords. Broome finally left Western Australia in December 1889, on a mission to England in connection with the Constitution Bill, and his tenure as governor ended in September 1890. One source states "Disputes with his senior officials tarnished Broome’s reputation in the Colonial Office.
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Consequently, the British Parliament passed a bill for the whole of the lands of the vast territory—1,060,000 square miles—to be freely handed over to the legislature of Western Australia, which thus obtained its new constitution on the same basis as the other colonies of the continent, there being
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Sir Frederick and two leading members of the Western Australian legislature travelled to England in December 1889 to give evidence before a select committee of the House of Commons, to which, early in the session of 1890, the Constitution Bill was referred. Much to the surprise of the London press,
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Completion Fund, and, in 1873, secretary to the Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships, and held for some time a commission in the Essex yeomanry. He was selected by the Earl of Carnarvon, in 1875, to proceed with Lord Garnet Wolseley on a special mission to
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His term as governor of Western Australia was marked by great extension of railways and telegraphs, and general progress. When the colony was preparing for
310:, by his wife Catherine Eleanor (eldest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Napier, formerly Superintendent, Indian Department, Canada) Broome was born in 828: 785: 1082: 1072: 1087: 607: 1057: 991: 54: 1092: 1052: 926: 778: 648: 951: 673: 1067: 394:, where he administered the government in 1879, and was lieutenant-governor of the island from 1880 to 1888. He was the 14th 390:, as colonial secretary of that colony. He held that post until 1878, when he was promoted to the colonial secretaryship of 818: 686: 916: 762: 745: 696: 561: 526: 143: 1077: 801: 752: 724: 629: 434: 395: 295: 160: 110: 414: 270:(18 November 1842 – 26 November 1896) was a colonial administrator in the British Empire, serving in 91: 679:
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Broome returned to London in 1869, and for the following six years was a regular contributor to
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the committee reported in favour of the bill and of the transfer of all lands to the colony.
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The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia: Online exhibitions: Governors and Premiers
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from 9 Dec 1880 to 5 May 1883. He was created CMG in 1877, and KCMG in 1884
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are named after him. He has signed his name as F. Napier Broome.
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He died in London in 1896 and was buried on the eastern side of
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Frederick Broome with his wife, Mary Anne Barker; circa 1866
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The eldest son of Rev. Frederick Broome, rector of Kenley,
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Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
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On receiving the news of Britain's military disaster at
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in the West Indies and, in July 1891, was appointed
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Index

KCMG

Governor
Trinidad and Tobago
Victoria
Sir William Robinson
Sir Hubert Jerningham
Governor of Western Australia
Victoria
Sir William Robinson
Governor
Mauritius
Victoria
Sir George Bowen
Sir John Pope Hennessy
Canada
London
England
KCMG
Natal
Mauritius
Western Australia
Barbados
Trinidad and Tobago
Broome
Broomehill
Shropshire
Canada
Whitchurch Grammar School
Mary Anne Barker

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