Harper, Robert (1842-1919)

Field of activity
company director; free trade politician; general merchant; liberal/conservative politician; Member of Lower House; newspaper owner; Presbyterian lay leader; protectionist politician
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1463488

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HARPER, ROBERT (1842-1919), businessman and politician, was born on 1 February 1842 in Glasgow, Scotland, son of Robert Harper, merchant, and his wife Elizabeth, née Calderwood, and elder brother of Andrew Harper. Educated at Glasgow Academy until 13, Robert was employed in Glasgow until he migrated to Melbourne with his family in August 1856. He worked for J. F. McKenzie & Co., roasting and grinding millers, and became a partner about 1863. In 1865 the partnership was dissolved and Harper established Robert Harper & Co., trading in tea, coffee and spices from the East Indies and later in oatmeal and flour.

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Australian Dictionary of Biography

  1. 'Harper, Robert (1842 - 1919)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    Peter Cook
    [1983]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 9
    pp 206-207.

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  1. Portrait of Robert Harper, M.H.R., Victoria, 1901-13
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  2. Portrait of R. Harper / The Swiss Studios
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