Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Alfred Pickmore Bussell

Parliamentary Service

House

MLC

Party

Date Elected

29 July 1872

Electorate

Nominated

Service

Nominated MLC 29 July 1872–30 June 1874

Private Member's Bills

Year Retired/Resigned

1874

Personal Information

Birth date

21 June 1816

Place of birth

Portsea, Hants, England, United Kingdom

Death date

18 October 1882

Cause of death

Place of death

Brookhampton, Victoria, Australia

Cemetery

Busselton Cemetery, WA

Arrived in WA

To WA March 1830 with brothers on Warrior

Parents

Son of Reverend William Marchant Bussell, Anglican clergyman, and Frances Louisa Yates
Brother of John Garrett Bussell

Marriage and Family

Married 22 August 1850, residence of R Heppingstone, Wonnerup (and also at St Mary’s Church, Busselton) to Ellen Heppingstone (born 1 December 1833), daughter of Robert and Ann MacKinlay
Children: six sons and eight daughters
Widowed 16 January 1877

Religion

Church of England

Education

Educated Winchester College, England

Occupation

Farmer

Employment History

1830–1834 attempted to establish farm with brothers in Augusta district, home destroyed by fire

Local Government

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

Moved with brothers to Cattle Chosen, Vasse district
By 1851 lived at Broadwater, 1857, moved to Ellensbrook, Margaret River, WA
1865 also took up Wallcliffe in property extending from Cowaramup to Donnelly River
Justice of the Peace

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, 2001, p. 7.

Bibliography

Further Information

Wendy Birman, 'Bussell, Alfred Pickmore (1816–1882)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bussell-alfred-pickmore-3126/text4653, published first in hardcopy 1969, accessed online 17 December 2015.
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, 2001, p. 7.
Bussell papers, Battye Library, Perth.
R Erickson, ed, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, volume I. A-C, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, 1987.
EOG Shann, Cattle Chosen, London, 1926.
West Australian, 27 October 1882.