Members’ biographical register

Albert Hassell

House

MLA MLC

Party

Forrest Party Independent after 1898

Date first elected

10 May 1871

Year Retired/Resigned

1904

Electorate(s)

Albany
Plantagenet

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC Albany 10 May 1871 (by-election)–23 September 1874
MLA Plantagenet 6 December 1890–June 1904
Contested Albany 28 June 1904

Conventions

Represented WA at Federal Convention 1897–1898

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

20 September 1918

Cause of death

Place of death

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cemetery

Albany Memorial Cemetery, Albany, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

Occupation

Businessperson, farmer, consul and botanist

Employment History

Albany merchant and storekeeper 1860s
1861–1863 manager Jerramungup Station, 1863–1866, 1872–1886, Kendenup station
1892–1918 owner Jerramungup Station
Vice-consul for Norway
Botanist, assisted Baron Van Mueller to gather his WA collection

Local Government

Plantagenet Road Board, member 1871–1887, chairman 1888–1894 Albany Town Trust member 1868–1869, chairman 1869–1870 Albany Road Board/Albany Town Council 1896–1900, 1902-1909, 1917-1918

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Explored east to Esperance 1859 while at Jerramungup
To Albany 1886
Justice of the Peace, 1872
Promoted Standard Gold Mining Co for Kendenup mines 1874
Albany Chamber of Commerce, Weld Club
Freemason

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds. Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Vol. 2, 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth 2010, p. 92. Lorraine's Cemetery Records Pages website. Accessed 15 January 2015. http://www.ozburials.com/CemsWA/Albany/AlbanyMem_h.htm

Bibliography

Further Information

JS Battye, ed, The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, Hussey and Gillingham, Adelaide, 1912-1913, p. 270–273.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western AustraliansII
C. W. Hassell, 'Hassell, Albert Young (1841–1918)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hassell-albert-young-3908/text5869, published first in hardcopy 1972, accessed online 22 December 2015.
West Australian, 21 September 1918.
Wilson, J. Graham. Western Australia's centenary 1829-1929: first century's progress with antecedent records 1527-1828, p. 255.