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Place of Birth: Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia
About Charles Abbey
- Charles Roy Abbey (24 November 1913 – 2 September 1982) was an Australian farmer and politician who served as a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1958 to 1977. Abbey was born in Fremantle to Clara Gertrude (née Berry) and Charles Thomas Abbey.
- His parents moved to Beverley (a Wheatbelt farming community) when he was a small child.
- Abbey worked as a shop assistant after leaving school and then turned to farming, leasing a property near the Dale River for five years before purchasing it outright.
- He was prominent in local agricultural circles and also served on the Beverley Road Board from 1953 to 1962.
- Abbey entered parliament at the 1958 Legislative Council election, defeating Norm Baxter of the Country Party in Central Province.
- After a redistribution, he transferred to West Province at the 1965 state election, which he held until his retirement in 1977.
- Abbey retired to Mandurah, dying there in September 1982 (aged 68).
- He had married Winifred Doreen Strange in 1941, with whom he had one daughter.
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