Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman
Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman (1857–1917) was a surveyor and explorer of Western Australia.
Born 9 July 1857 at Seabrook near Northam in Western Australia, he was the son of Edmund Ralph Brockman, gentleman-farmer, and Elizabeth Deborah née Slade. He was educated at Bishop Mathew Hale's[1] school and articled in 1878 to surveyor J. S. Brooking.
On 20 February 1882 he married Grace Bussell, (heroine of the Georgette disaster of 1876). They had three daughters and four sons, including Geoffrey (1885–1977), an engineer,[2] Karl (1891-), a Rhodes Scholar, soldier and Judge, Edmund (1884-1849), soldier, politician and Judge[3] and Deborah (1887–1965), a mining company director and welfare worker, subsequently Lady Hackett and later Lady Moulden.[4]
Notes
- ^ A. de Q. Robin, 'Hale, Mathew Blagden (1811 - 1895)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972, pp 317-319.
- ^ Peter Cowan, 'Drake-Brockman, Geoffrey (1885 - 1977)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 14, Melbourne University Press, 1996, pp 34-35.
- ^ Ian G. Sharp, 'Drake-Brockman, Edmund Alfred (1884 - 1949)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp 339-340.
- ^ Alexandra Hasluck, 'Hackett, Deborah Vernon (1887 - 1965)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 149-150.
Further reading
- Birman, Wendy (1981) 'Drake-Brockman, Frederick Slade (1857 - 1917)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 8, Melbourne University Press, 1981, pp 340–341.
- D. H. Drake-Brockman,(1936) Record of the Brockman and Drake-Brockman Family (priv print, Sussex, 1936)
- G. Drake-Brockman,(1960) The Turning Wheel Perth
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