Members’ biographical register

Robert Robinson

House

MLA

Party

Liberal until 1917 then Nationalist Member executive committee Liberal League

Date first elected

21 October 1914

Year Retired/Resigned

1921

Electorate(s)

Canning

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLA Canning 21 October 1914–12 March 1921
Contested Canning 12 March 1921, Albany 22 March 1924

Office

Attorney General, 27 July 1916–17 May 1919
Minister for Mines, 27 July 1916–28 June 1917 and 17 April–21 June 1919
Minister for Industries and for Woods, (until 17 April 1919) and Forests 28 June 1917–21 June 1919

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

19 September 1926

Cause of death

Place of death

Mt Lawley, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, WA. Anglican area, EA section, 0079B grave site

Arrived in WA

Arrived in WA June 1878 per Siam to Albany

Occupation

Lawyer

Employment History

Articled to EGS Hare at Albany and then Septimus Burt, Perth, 1885 Associate to Chief Justice Sir Alexander Onslow
Admitted as a barrister to the WA Bar, 1889
In partnership with Samuel Johnson Haynes at Albany, 1897
Took over Sholl and Foulkes in Perth, became Haynes, Robinson and Cox, 1903
King’s Counsel, 1914
Shareholder in estate from 1900 and developed into suburb of Mt Lawley with Samuel Copley, also other property in Perth and Albany
Partner in pastoral lease at Karonie, east of Kalgoorlie

Local Government

Member, Perth Road Board, 1908–1926

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Travelled to Victoria with parents, 1873
Member, executive Western Australian Town Planning Association formed 1916
Member, Kings Park Board
President, Automobile Club of WA and Perth Motor Cycle Club

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. 171.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 12 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=027d3c4a-8e1d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbaf

Bibliography

Further Information

Clive R. Moore, 'Robinson, Robert Thomson (1867–1926)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/robinson-robert-thomson-8244/text14435, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 11 January 2016.