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Harvey's profile on the SA Parliament website lists him as having a middle name of "Smith". (This is, for our purposes, very handy as it disambiguates him from William Humphrey Harvey, also a Labor defector in parliament at the same time, albeit having bolted in the previous split.) However, I cannot for the life of me find anything else to back this up - there are zero relevant Trove hits for "William Smith Harvey", "W. S. Harvey" or "W. Smith Harvey" - which is extremely unusual. Every single source I can find refers to him as "William Harvey" or "W. Harvey", which is why he's a heinously difficult person to find information about. On further checking, Dean Jaensch's usually reliable Statistical Register only refers to "HARVEY W", not "HARVEY WS".
Can anyone come up with an explanation for this that isn't that the SA parliament have somehow goofed? And if not, anyone have any suggestions for how to name this article? I feel like it might need to be at William Harvey (1882–1954). The Drover's Wife ( talk) 10:50, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
So, I'm sitting in the State Library with a copy of the Biographical Register, and this gets even more confusing:
The amount of contradictory sources on this guy is baffling. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:09, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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Harvey's profile on the SA Parliament website lists him as having a middle name of "Smith". (This is, for our purposes, very handy as it disambiguates him from William Humphrey Harvey, also a Labor defector in parliament at the same time, albeit having bolted in the previous split.) However, I cannot for the life of me find anything else to back this up - there are zero relevant Trove hits for "William Smith Harvey", "W. S. Harvey" or "W. Smith Harvey" - which is extremely unusual. Every single source I can find refers to him as "William Harvey" or "W. Harvey", which is why he's a heinously difficult person to find information about. On further checking, Dean Jaensch's usually reliable Statistical Register only refers to "HARVEY W", not "HARVEY WS".
Can anyone come up with an explanation for this that isn't that the SA parliament have somehow goofed? And if not, anyone have any suggestions for how to name this article? I feel like it might need to be at William Harvey (1882–1954). The Drover's Wife ( talk) 10:50, 18 September 2017 (UTC)
So, I'm sitting in the State Library with a copy of the Biographical Register, and this gets even more confusing:
The amount of contradictory sources on this guy is baffling. The Drover's Wife ( talk) 07:09, 20 September 2017 (UTC)