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Evan Wisdom
Brigadier General Evan Alexander Wisdom (29 September 1869 – 7 December 1945) was a senior officer of the Australian Army in the First World War. He was the Mayor of the Municipality of Cottesloe between 1908 and 1911, served as the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Liberal member for Claremont for two terms between 1911–1917 and was the Administrator of the Territory of New Guinea from 1921 to 1933. Aged 76, he died in Melbourne and was cremated.〔McNicoll, p. 546.〕
==Early life==
Born on 29 September 1869 at Inverness, Scotland, the son of Francis William Wisdom and Mary, née Cameron. He attended his education at Inverness and Edinburgh. After his education he served in a militia infantry battalion and was later transferred to the Midlothian Coast Artillery.〔
He emigrated to Australia in 1891 to seek his fortune and settled in Western Australia, where he began as a prospector to Southern Cross at Yilgarn. In 1892, with the discovery of gold at Coolgardie he went prospecting and found success.〔 With the money made from his prospecting he opened a store at Coolgardie. He later joined the gold rush at Kalgoorlie and again had success. He acquired extensive mining interests and set up the Exchange Hotel at Kalgoorlie.
Travelling back to Scotland in 1894 he married Agnes Bell Jackson on 16 April 1895 at Edinburgh. Together they emigrated to Western Australia and bought a house at Claremont, Perth. Retaining his business interests in the goldfields, he became active in the Citizens Military Force upon creation and was appointed lieutenant in the Western Australian Mounted Infantry, with the command of the Cannington troop. Promoted to captain in 1903 and in 1904 he was posted to militia headquarters in Perth. He later became the brigade major of the Western Australian Infantry Brigade in 1908. Fostering a desire to enter politics, he became the mayor of Cottesloe between 1908–13 and later went on to be the Liberal member for Claremont in the Legislative Assembly in 1911–17.〔
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