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Electorates
- MLC 7 September–3 December 1886 and 4 January–6 March 1888
- MLA Roebourne, 28 November–30 December 1890 (resigned)
- MLA Albany, 23 June 1894–2 August 1900 (resigned)
- MLA West Perth, 24 April 1901–24 June 1902
Office
- Acting Attorney-General and Nominated
- Leader of the Opposition, 1895–2 August 1900
- Premier and Attorney-General, 27 May 1901–21 November 1901; 23 December 1901–24 June 1902
Federal Conventions
- Delegate to Federal Convention 1897, 1898, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne
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Personal Information |
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3 December 1856 |
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Perth, Western Australia |
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24 June 1902 |
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St George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia |
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East Perth Cemetery, Western Australia |
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Son of George Walpole Leake, barrister and MLC, and Rose Ellen Gliddon and brother-in-law of Septimus Burt |
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Married 15 September 1881, St. George’s Cathedral, Perth to Louisa Emily Burt (born circa 1856 and died 14 July 1937), daughter of Sir Archibald Paull and Louisa Emily Bryan
Children: five sons and one daughter |
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Church of England |
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Educated Bishop Hale’s School, St Peter’s College, Adelaide, South Australia
South Australian Bar, 1880
Articled in his father’s legal firm, 1875
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Lawyer |
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Admitted to Bar and partnership, 1880
Acting Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor, 1881 and 1883
Crown Solicitor, 1883–1894
Queen's Counsel, 1898 |
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Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (posthumous) |
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President, Federal League of WA, 1897–1900
Mining interests
Keen cricketer when young
Committeeman, Western Australian Turf Club
Responsible for subdivision of Peppermint Grove with Alexander Forrest |
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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. 120.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 5 July 2022 (Wife's record). https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=4a6de23a-151d-ec11-b6e7-00224814cbf0 |
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The Australian encyclopaedia.
Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1.
B. K. De Garis, 'Leake, George (1856–1902)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leake-george-7137/text12317, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 23 December 2015.
Kimberly, WB. History of West Australia, p. 154.
Morning Herald, 21 April 1901.
Russell,EA. History of the Law in Western Australia and its Development from 1829 to 1979, p. 220–221.
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 33.
West Australian, 25 and 26 June 1902. |