Members’ biographical register

Herbert Yelland

House

MLC

Party

Country Party until 1923 then Ministerial Country Party and National until 1930 Country Party after 1932 Independent National in 1944

Date first elected

22 May 1924

Year Retired/Resigned

1936

Electorate(s)

East

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC East Province, 22 May 1924–21 May 1936
Contested East Province, 11 August 1923 (by-election), 9 May 1936, Swan 29 April 1944 (by-election)

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

22 May 1962

Cause of death

Place of death

Calingiri, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Taken by funeral director.

Arrived in WA

Occupation

Farmer

Employment History

Employee, South Australian and Western Australian Education Department, 1899–1903 Schoolmaster at Midland, 1901
Clerk, Lands Department, 1904–1911
Pioneer farmer, Bruce Rock area
Farming with son at Calingiri, From 1945

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Member, Worshipful Master University Masonic Lodge

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2010, p. 212.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed 28 September 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=2e591ba9-f61c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c3d1
Who's Who Australia (1935)

Bibliography

Further Information