Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Sturt
In office 3 February 1917 – 22 March 1921
Serving with Mat Davidson and Brian Doe
Preceded by
John Cann
Succeeded by
Jabez Wright
Personal details
Born
Percival Stanley Brookfield
(1875-08-07)7 August 1875 Wavertree, Lancashire, England
Died
22 March 1921(1921-03-22) (aged 45) Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Resting place
Broken Hill Cemetery
Political party
Labor
Other political affiliations
ISLP Socialist Labor
Occupation
Miner
Percival Stanley Brookfield (7 August 1875 – 22 March 1921) was an Australian politician and militant trade unionist. He was variously known as Percival Jack Brookfield or Jack Brookfield, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1917 until his violent death in 1921. In parliament he was a member of the Labor Party (ALP) until July 1919 and then joined the Industrial Socialist Labor Party.
Percival Stanley Brookfield (7 August 1875 – 22 March 1921) was an Australian politician and militant trade unionist. He was variously known as Percival...
people at Riverton railway station. Two of the victims, including MP PercyBrookfield, died of their wounds. 1–2 June 1919 Sydney, New South Wales 2 16 18...
Workers Union on Labor Council of New South Wales. Supporters included PercyBrookfield, the member for Sturt (Broken Hill) in the New South Wales Legislative...
parliamentarian. In 1921 another Labor MP in the NSW Legislative Assembly, PercyBrookfield, was slain in Riverton, by a psychotic man. Ngo was arrested for Newman's...
remembered in Broken Hill and beyond. Workers' heroes such as Tom Mann and PercyBrookfield are memorialised in various ways all over the town and the story of...
running for Sturt, but filled the vacancy caused by the murder of PercyBrookfield in 1921. Wright himself caused a vacancy a year later when he died...
1919: Sedan railway line between Monarto South and Sedan opens. 1921: PercyBrookfield, a NSW Politician, is shot at the Riverton railway station and later...
was evenly divided, with Labor having 43 seats and the support of PercyBrookfield (Socialist Labor) and Arthur Gardiner (Independent Labor), while the...
of the Socialist Labor Party. In February 1921, the parliamentarian PercyBrookfield and several other members split from the Socialist Labor Party and...
for Sturt PercyBrookfield was murdered while trying to disarm a deranged man at Riverton on 22 March 1921. Which party interest Brookfield represented...
Western Australian Legislative Council. 22 March – New South Wales MP PercyBrookfield is shot and killed when he tackles a crazed gunman at the train station...
O'Brien Richard Ball Preceded by PercyBrookfield Member for Sturt 1920 – 1927 Served alongside: Davidson, Brookfield/Wright/Horsington Succeeded by Ted...
Brian Doe (1920–1927) PercyBrookfield (1920–1921) Jabez Wright (1921–1922) Ted Horsington (1922–1927) Preceded by PercyBrookfield Succeeded by Ted Horsington...
William Gibbs Sam Toombs Frederick Reed Sturt 3 Mat Davidson* Brian Doe* PercyBrookfield* (ISLP) Walter Webb Jabez Wright John Thorn Frank Wilkinson Thomas...
(Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981) Labor's Titan: The Story of PercyBrookfield, 1878-1921 (Edited with Gilbert Roper) (Warrnambool Institute Press...
was evenly divided, with Labor having 43 seats and the support of PercyBrookfield (Socialist Labor) and Arthur Gardiner (Independent Labor), while the...
Valdemar Olling (Ind) Sturt Labor PercyBrookfield Francis Harvey (Ind Nat) Surry Hills Labor Arthur Buckley Percy Daly John Eaton (Ind) Ludwig Klausen...
Global Information