Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman
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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 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, Karl (1891-), a Rhodes Scholar, soldier and Judge, Edmund (1884-1849), soldier, politician and Judge and Deborah
(1887–1965), a mining company director and welfare worker, subsequently Lady Hackett and later Lady Moulden.
Surveyor General of Western Australia
The Surveyor General of Western Australia is the person nominally responsible for government surveying in Western Australia.In the early history of Western Australia, the office of surveyor general was one of the most important public offices...
and explorer of Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
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Born 9 July 1857 at Seabrook near Northam
Northam, Western Australia
Northam is a town in Western Australia, situated at the confluence of the Avon and Mortlock Rivers, about north-east of Perth in the Avon Valley. At the 2006 census, Northam had a population of 6,009. Northam is the largest town in the Avon region...
in Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
, he was the son of Edmund Ralph Brockman, gentleman-farmer, and Elizabeth Deborah née Slade. He was educated at Bishop Mathew Hale's school and articled in 1878 to surveyor J. S. Brooking.
On 20 February 1882 he married Grace Bussell
Grace Bussell
Grace Vernon Bussell , later Grace Drake-Brockman, was the 16-year-old heroine of the SS Georgette disaster in Western Australia on 1 December 1876. Bussell, along with Aboriginal stockman Sam Isaacs, helped save the lives of around 50 people with a quick thinking rescue from shore...
, (heroine of the Georgette disaster of 1876). They had three daughters and four sons, including Geoffrey (1885–1977), an engineer, Karl (1891-), a Rhodes Scholar, soldier and Judge, Edmund (1884-1849), soldier, politician and Judge and Deborah
Deborah Vernon Hackett
Deborah Vernon Hackett was born in West Guildford, Western Australia on 18 June 1887, the daughter of surveyor Frederick Slade Drake-Brockman and heroine Grace Vernon Bussell and younger sister of Edmund Drake-Brockman...
(1887–1965), a mining company director and welfare worker, subsequently Lady Hackett and later Lady Moulden.
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