Parliamentary Service |
|
|
Electorates
- Nominated MLC 24 December 1890–June 1894
- Contested East Province 16 July 1894
- MLC Toodyay 29 September 1874–6 October 1875 (resigned); York 11 February 1880–27 October 1884
|
|
|
|
|
Personal Information |
|
|
1 September 1835 |
|
|
Paris, France |
|
|
14 January 1921 |
|
|
|
|
|
York, Western Australia |
|
|
Northam Cemetery, Western Australia |
|
|
To WA with family 28 February 1837 on Shepherd |
|
|
Son of Edward Hamersley, farmer, and Anne Louise (Elvira) Corneille
Brother of Samuel Richard Hamersley and brother-in-law of John Forrest, Charles and Andrew Dempster |
|
|
Married 4 February 1867, St Matthew’s Church, Guildford to Jane McLean Dempster (born 19 March 1840), daughter of James McLean and Ann Ellen Pratt
Children: seven sons and three daughters
Widowed 1 April 1913 |
|
|
Church of England |
|
|
Educated France and England
|
|
|
Farmer |
|
|
Pastoralist 1853 managed family horse station at Richmond, Williams district
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
To France 1843–1850; to WA again 1850
Owned Pyrton near Guildford
Later owned Wilberforce and Woodside, York |
|
|
Battye II, p. 485–86
Black, David and Geoffrey Bolton. Biographical register of members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, p. 88
BDWA II
Eastern Districts Chronicle, 21 January 1921
Western Mail, 10 February 1921
Who's Who in Australia, (1906) |
| Bibliography |
|
|
|
|
|