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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Robert Frederick Sholl

Parliamentary Service

House

MLC MLA

Party

Opposed Forest Party

Date Elected

27 November 1890

Electorate

Gascoyne; North

Service

Electorates

MLC Gascoyne 20 May 1886 (by-election)–21 October 1890
MLA Gascoyne 27 November 1890–28 April 1897
MLC North Province 22 May 1904–8 December 1909

Conventions

Member Federation Convention 1897

Private Member's Bills

Inaugural Speech

Speeches

Search for speeches by Robert Sholl

Year Retired/Resigned

1909

Personal Information

Birth date

27 August 1848

Place of birth

Bunbury, Western Australia

Death date

4 December 1909

Cause of death

Place of death

St George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, WA

Arrived in WA

Parents

Son of Robert John, resident magistrate, and Mary Ann Berckelman Brother of Horace William Sholl, farmer and politician

Marriage and Family

Married to Elizabeth Cosgrove, daughter of Thomas
Children: two sons and two daughters

Religion

Church of England

Education

Perth public school and Mr Sherwood’s high school

Occupation

Pearler and businessperson

Employment History

Spent three years as a jackaroo on Yandanooka sheep station in the Irwin district 1868 to Roebourne district
Launched pearling enterprise at Nickol Bay with his brother Horace William, but after a few years relinquished their interests including Marron station in the Gascoyne
Member of original syndicate of Kimberley Pastoral Company
Speculated in gold mining, financed Lady Shenton Mine which led to opening of Menzies goldfields, also director of Fraser Mine in Southern Cross
Property investor, director Perth Brickworks and Perth Iceworks Company

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Lived in London for several years around turn of the twentieth century

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. 180.

Bibliography

Further Information

G. C. Bolton, 'Sholl, Robert Frederick (1848–1909)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sholl-robert-frederick-8422/text14797, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 11 January 2016.