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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Lancel Victor De Hamel

Parliamentary Service

House

MLA MLC

Party

Active member of Conservative Party A founder of Newcastle Conservative Club Opposed Forrest Party

Date Elected

9 December 1890

Electorate

Albany

Service

Electorates

MLC Albany 4 February 1889–21 October 1890
MLA Albany 9 December 1890–22 June 1894
Contested Yilgarn 3 July 1894

Private Member's Bills

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1894

Personal Information

Birth date

16 September 1849

Place of birth

Stoke Newington, London, England, United Kingdom

Death date

25 November 1894

Cause of death

Typhoid

Place of death

Coolgardie, Western Australia

Cemetery

Coolgardie Cemetery, Western Australia

Arrived in WA

8 November 1886

Parents

Felix John, solicitor, and Eliza Bond

Marriage and Family

Married 12 September 1877, Warkworth Parish Church, Northumberland, England to Marion Eugenie de Manuel Hammond (born 1855–1891), daughter of Charles Frederic
Children: one son
Widowed 1 December 1891

Religion

Church of England

Education

Educated in England

Occupation

Lawyer, newspaper editor and businessperson

Employment History

1874–1886 solicitor to Board of Trade, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Captain 3rd Volunteer Battalion of Northumberland Fusiliers
May 1888 with WF Foster founded Australian Advertiser (later Albany Advertiser), editor until 1894
Captain of Plantagenet Rifles from 1890
Circa 1892 with JM Speed established legal firm in Perth

Local Government

Mayor of Albany 1888–1889

Principal Honours

Background/Membership

1880s initiated and participated in unsuccessful expedition to search for buried treasure on a Pacific island
8 November 1886 to Albany, Western Australia
1894 to Coolgardie where he died of typhoid

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. 62.
Coolgardie Cemetery Index. Accessed 17 December 2014. http://www.ozgenonline.com/~forever_remembered/coolgardie.htm

Bibliography

Further Information

Donald S. Garden, 'de Hamel, Lancel Victor (1849–1894)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/de-hamel-lancel-victor-5943/text10133, published first in hardcopy 1981, accessed online 17 December 2015.