Members’ biographical register

Arthur Jenkins

House

MLC

Party

Liberal

Date first elected

22 May 1898

Year Retired/Resigned

1917

Electorate(s)

North East

Inaugural Speech

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC North East Province 13 May 1898–21 May 1904
MLC Metropolitan Province 22 May 1908–27 March 1917
Contested North East Province 30 May 1904

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Death date

27 March 1917

Cause of death

Place of death

Cottesloe, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

Arrived in Western Australia 1893

Occupation

Lawyer

Employment History

Miner at Coolgardie
1894 WA Bar
Practised as solicitor on goldfields for eight years, afterwards at Perth

Local Government

Mayor of Coolgardie 1897–1898

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

References

Battye, JS The Cyclopedia of Western Australia : an historical and commercial review : descriptive and biographical facts, figures and illustrations : an epitome of progress, p. 327–328. FK Crowley, 'A Vice-Regal Defendant; Sidelights on Australian Federation’, Historical Studies, IX, XXXIV, p. 123.
Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia, PWH Thiel, Perth, 1901, p. 25.
West Australian, 15 May 1908, 28 March 1917.

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