William Bold - Early Life

Early Life

Bold was born at Birkdale near Southport, Lancashire. After education in Lancashire and the Haberdashers' School in London he was an apprentice electrical engineer on the Forth railway bridge at Queensferry, Scotland, in 1888 to 1890. After returning to London he taught himself shorthand and worked as a clerk-typist with an Australian mercantile firm in the Baltic Exchange. He migrated to Western Australia in 1896 at the suggestion of a relative living in Fremantle.

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