Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, 1910–1912

This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 22 May 1910 to 21 May 1912. The chamber had 30 seats made up of ten provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election. Prior to the 1910 election, the Council had thought of itself as entirely independent from party politics, but with the election of Labor members to the Council and Labor's vigorous (and ultimately successful) campaign at the 1911 election for the Legislative Assembly, many of its members joined the newly formed Liberal Party which had emerged from the various National Political Leagues and Liberal Leagues.

Name Party Province Term
expires		 Years in office
Henry BriggsLiberalWest19161896–1919
Thomas BrimageIndependentNorth-East19121900–1912
Ephraim ClarkeLiberalSouth-West19141901–1921
James ConnollyLiberalNorth-East19141901–1914
Francis ConnorIndependentNorth19121906–1916
Joseph CullenLiberalSouth-East19121909–1917
Frederick Davis[3]LaborMetropolitan-Suburban19141911–1914
Jabez DoddLaborSouth19161910–1928
James Doland[3]LaborMetropolitan-Suburban19121911–1912
John Drew[4]LaborCentral19121900–1918; 1924–1947
Douglas Gawler[1]LiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19161910–1915
John GlowreyIndependentSouth19121900–1904; 1906–1912
Sir John Winthrop HackettLiberalSouth-West19121890–1916
Vernon HamersleyIndependentEast19161904–1946
Arthur JenkinsLiberalMetropolitan19141898–1904; 1908–1917
Walter Kingsmill[1]LiberalMetropolitan19161903–1922
John KirwanIndependentSouth19141908–1946
Joseph Langsford[3]LiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19121904–1911
Robert LaurieLiberalWest19121901–1912
Cuthbert McKenzieLiberalSouth-East19161910–1922
Robert McKenzieLiberalNorth-East19161904–1916
Edward McLartyLiberalSouth-West19161894–1916
Warren Marwick[2]LiberalEast19121910–1912
Matthew MossLiberalWest19141900–1901; 1902–1914
Con O'BrienLaborCentral19141901–1904; 1908–1914
William PatrickLiberalCentral19161904–1916
Richard PennefatherIndependentNorth19141907–1914
Charles PiesseLiberalSouth-East19141894–1914
Charles SommersLiberalMetropolitan19121900–1918
Sydney Stubbs[3]LiberalMetropolitan-Suburban19141908–1911
George Throssell[2]East19121907–1910
Thomas WildingLiberalEast19141908–1914
Edward WittenoomLiberalNorth19161883–1884; 1885–1886;
1894–1898; 1902–1906;
1910–1934

Notes
1 On 1 March 1910, Metropolitan-Suburban Province MLC Walter Kingsmill resigned to contest a Senate seat in the federal election, and Douglas Gawler won the regular election for the seat on 23 March. Walter Kingsmill was subsequently elected at the regular Council election to a Metropolitan Province seat.
2 On 2 September 1910, East Province MLC George Throssell died. Warren Marwick won the resulting by-election on 26 September 1910.
3 On 22 September 1911, Metropolitan-Suburban Province MLC Sydney Stubbs resigned to contest the Assembly seat of Wagin, which he went on to represent until 1947, and Joseph Langsford resigned to contest the Assembly seat of Claremont. Labor candidates Frederick Davis and James Doland respectively won the resulting by-elections on 2 November 1911.
4 On 7 October 1911, Central Province MLC John Drew was appointed Colonial Secretary in the new Ministry led by John Scaddan. He was therefore required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, at which he was returned unopposed on 17 October 1910.

Sources
  • Black, David (1991). Legislative Council of Western Australia : membership register, electoral law and statistics, 1890-1989. Perth: Parliamentary History Project. ISBN 0-7309-3641-4.
  • Hughes, Colin A.; Aitkin, Don (1986). Voting for the Australian State Upper Houses, 1890-1984. Canberra: Australian National University. ISBN 0-909779-18-X.
  • Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.
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