Edward Crooke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian politician
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Place of Birth: Rosedale, Victoria, Australia
About Edward Crooke
- Edward Jolley Crooke (7 January 1861 – 23 October 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born in Rosedale to Edward Crooke and Maria Matilda Jamison.
- He attended Toorak Grammar School and Toorak College, and inherited his father's Rosedale property.
- He married Ada Menzies, with whom he had four children.
- He served on Rosedale Shire Council from 1889 to 1901 and from 1908 to 1940, and was thrice president (1892–93, 1895–96, 1923–24).
- In 1893 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Council province of Gippsland.
- He was a minister without portfolio from 1900 to 1902.
- Crooke served until his retirement in 1922.
- He died in Melbourne in 1940.
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