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Electorates
- Nominated MLC, 30 June 1874–14 January 1879
- MLC Murray and Williams, 12 February 1880–12 April 1886 (resigned)
- Nominee MLC, 17 June–7 September 1886
- MLC North Province, 28 July 1888 (by-election)–21 October 1890
- MLA Ashburton, 29 December 1890–April 1900 (resigned)
- Contested Perth (by-election), 28 May 1888
Office
- Acting Attorney General, 19 June 1886–December 1886
- Attorney General, 29 December 1890–27 October 1897
- Minister without portfolio, 29 December 1898
- Member of Executive Council, 29 December 1898-15 February 1901
Conferences
- One of WA representatives at Colonial Conference, London, 1887, and subsequent jubilee celebrations
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Personal Information |
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25 October 1847 |
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St Kitts, British West Indies |
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15 May 1919 |
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Strawberry Hill, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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29 January 1861 |
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Son of Archibald Paull Burt, first Chief Justice of WA, and Louisa Emily Bryan and brother-in-law of George Leake |
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Married 13 July 1872, St Georges Cathedral , Perth, WA to Louisa Fanny Hare (born circa June 1848 and died 11 February 1929) daughter of Gustavus Edward Cockburn, (Government Resident, Albany, WA) and Sarah Annie Wright
Children: six sons and four daughters |
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Church of England |
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Educated private school Melksham, Wiltshire, England and from 1861 at Bishop Hale’s School, Perth
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Lawyer and farmer |
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Served as articled clerk to GF Stone
Called to WA Bar, 1870
In partnership with Edward Stone in firm of Stone and Burt, 1876
QC, 1887
Advocate of Responsible Government by 1870, formed the Reform League with Stephen Henry Parker and Edmund Stone
Pastoralist, during and after parliamentary career |
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Member, Perth City Council, 1881–1889 |
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Member, Central Board of Education, 1873–1875
Joined John, Alexander and David Forrest in the lease of 590,000 acres on Ashburton River (Minderoo station), 1877
Also part-owner of Red Hill, Brick House, Yinniethana, Kadji Kadji and Minne Creek properties
Purchased Rossmoyne in 1882, sold for redevelopment, 1914
Foundation member West Australia Co, 1884
Church of England synodsman, trustee, legal advisor and benefactor, gave Burt Memorial Hall in honour of two sons killed in World War I
Trustee, Victoria Public Library
Captain of Perth Cricketers, 1871
Foundation member, Weld Club
Declined invitations to join bench of Supreme Court
Declined a knighthood, 1901 |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, 2010, p. 41.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board. Accessed 4 February 2015. |
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Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 7, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966-.
FK Crowley, Australia's western third: a history of Western Australia from the first settlements to modern times, Macmillan, London, 1960, p. 97.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board. Accessed 22 June 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=03400cd3-911d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0
Russell, Enid. A history of the law in Western Australia and its development from 1829 to 1979, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, p. 218–19.
CT Stannage, The people of Perth: a social history of Western Australia's capital city, Perth City Council, Perth, 1979, pp. 125, 181, 199.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 19.
Weekend Magazine, 25 February 1967.
West Australian, 16 May 1919, 24 September 1932. |