Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1896–1898
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This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
Western Australian Legislative Council
The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

from 27 July 1896 to 9 May 1898. The chamber had 21 seats made up of seven provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election. The Constitution Act Amendment Act 1896, which passed after the 1896 Council election, created a new seat of North-East Province, which had its inaugural election on 29 June 1897 with terms expiring in 1904, 1902 and 1900.
Name Province Term
expires
Years in office
William Alexander  Central  1898 1895–1898
Henry Briggs  West  1898 1896–1919
Richard Burges  East  1898 1894–1903
Daniel Congdon  West  1900 1887–1890; 1892–1900
Frederick Crowder
Frederick Crowder
Frederick Crowder may refer to:* Petre Crowder, Petre Crowder, British politician* Frederick Crowder , English cricketer* Frederick Crowder , Western Australian politician...

 
South-East  1900 1894–1900; 1901–1902
Charles Dempster
Charles Dempster
Charles Stewart 'Stewie' Dempster was a former New Zealand cricketer and coach...

 
East  1900 1873–1874; 1894–1907
John Winthrop Hackett  South-West  1900 1890–1916
Richard Septimus Haynes  Central  1902 1896–1902
Samuel Haynes  South-East  1898 1894–1910
Andrew Henning  North-East  1898 1897–1898
Alfred Kidson  West  1902 1895–1902
Donald MacKay
Donald Mackay
Donald Bruce Mackay was an Australian anti-drugs campaigner who came to fame in 1977 through the circumstances of his murder.Mackay was born in Griffith and raised in Sydney...

 
North  1902 1896–1902
Edward McLarty  South-West  1898 1894–1916
Alexander Matheson
Alexander Matheson (Australian politician)
Sir Alexander Perceval Matheson, 3rd Baronet was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was the son of Sir Alexander Matheson, 1st Baronet, a Scottish member of the House of Commons. Educated in England at Harrow School, he migrated to Australia in 1894, becoming a commercial agent and company...

 
North-East  1902 1897–1901
Stephen Henry Parker
Stephen Henry Parker
Sir Stephen Henry Parker KCMG was a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia from 1906 to 1914.-Early life:...

Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1898 1878–1888; 1889–1890;
1892–1897
Harold Parsons  North-East  1900 1897–1900
Charles Piesse  South-East  1902 1894–1914
George Randell
George Randell
George Randell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873–1875 and 1880–1890, then when representative self-government was achieved in 1890, won the seat of Moore in the new Legislative Assembly...

Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1898 1875–1878; 1880–1890;
1893–1894; 1897–1910
John Richardson  North  1898 1894–1904
Henry Saunders
Henry Saunders
Henry John Saunders was an English-born Australian politician. Born in London, he was educated in Bristol at Clifton College before becoming a civil engineer. In 1884 he migrated to Australia. He was involved in local politics and sat on Perth City Council, serving as mayor in 1895; he was also a...

 
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1902 1894–1902; 1918–1919
Sir George Shenton
George Shenton
Sir George Shenton was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years.-Early and family life:...

 
Metropolitan
Metropolitan Province
The Metropolitan Province was a multi-member electoral province of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the metropolitan region of Perth. It was created by the Constitution Acts Amendment Act 1893, and became effective on 22 May 1894 following the first council elections following...

 
1900 1870–1873; 1875–1906
William Spencer  South-West  1902 1896–1901
Frank Stone  North  1900 1894–1906
John Taylor  East  1902 1896–1899
Edward Wittenoom
Edward Wittenoom
Sir Edward Charles Wittenoom KCMG was an Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.- Early life :...

 
Central 1900 1883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934
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