About Edward Raper
Lived 1806 – 1882 (aged 75–76). Edward Raper was a politician.
Edward Raper (1806 – 29 March 1882) was an Irish-born Australian politician.
He was born in Dublin and migrated to Australia around 1832. In 1834 he married Jane Feeney, with whom he had seven children. He worked as a butcher in Sydney, and in 1860 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury. He was defeated in 1864. Raper died at Darlinghurst in 1882.
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irish-born Australian politician
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