People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Alternative Names

• Stuart, John Alexander
• Curlew
• Saladin

Birth

18 December, 1866
Eagleton, New South Wales, Australia

Death

3 July, 1929 (aged 62)
Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Cause of Death

hemiplegia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Scottish

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Presbyterian

Occupation

• gaoled trade unionist
• goldminer
• labour politician
• labourer
• Member of Lower House
• newspaper editor
• poet
• political writer
• prisoner
• timber worker
• trade union official

Key Events

• Shearers' Strike, 1891

Groups

• shearers strike leaders 'conspiracists' (1894)

Maps

• Kalgoorlie goldfields (WA)

Key Organisations

• Australian Workers' Union
• Queensland Labourers' Union
• Australian Workers' Union (WA)

Key Places

• St Helena Island Prison (Qld)

Workplaces

• Westralian Worker (Kalgoorlie, WA) newspaper
• Parliament of Western Australia