Members’ biographical register

David Wordsworth

House

MLC

Party

Liberal Member state executive Tasmanian Liberal Party 1956–1957 Member WA State Executive 1969–1971

Date first elected

22 May 1971

Year Retired/Resigned

1993

Electorate(s)

South

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC South Province, 22 May 1971–21 May 1989
MLC Agricultural Region, 22 May 1989–21 May 1993

Office

Minister for Transport, 10 March 1977–25 August 1978
Minister for Lands and Forests, 25 August 1978–25 January 1982
Deputy President and Chairman of Committees, July 1983–August 1989

Committees

Deputy Chairman of Committees, August 1989–May 1993
Member, Standing Orders Committee, 1989–1993
Chairman, Select Committee on Salinity, 16 December 1987–30 November 1988
Member, Select Committee on Acts to be Considered for Repeal, 28 September 1989–11 July 1990

Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and other Conferences

Delegate from WA to Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Conference, Westminster, United Kingdom, 1974
Leader, Australian delegation to World Forestry Conference, Jakarta, 1978

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

24 June 2024

Cause of death

Place of death

Western Australia

Cemetery

Arrived in WA

Arrived Western Australia 1961

Occupation

Farmer

Employment History

Farmed at Hagley House, Tasmania, 1954–1964
Took up conditional purchase block in Esperance in 1961 and by 1971 had purchased other land to build up a major sheep and cattle development, the Duke of Orleans Pastoral Co (founded 1964)
Developed vineyard at Harvey and the wine label ‘Wordsworth’

Local Government

Esperance Shire Council, May 1969–April 1971

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Member, farmers’ organisations in Tasmania
Member, Senate, Murdoch University, 1994–1998
Member, various regional agricultural societies
Justice of the Peace
Patron, Esperance Bay Yacht Club and Esperance Bowling Club, sponsor of annual Albany–Esperance yacht race
Member, Weld Club Resident, Peppermint Grove in 2010

References

D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume two 1930-2010, Western Australian Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2011, p. 287.
Rod Moran (ed.), Esperance: the Last 50 Years, Esperance, 1995, pp. 190–194 and 319–320.
West Australian, 7 March 1977, 15 and 16 February 1982.
Western Roads, Vol. 2 No. 2, May 1977.
Who's Who in Western Australia (1977, 1979)

Bibliography

Further Information