Members’ biographical register

Luke Samuel Leake

House

MLC

Party

Date first elected

19 October 1870

Year Retired/Resigned

1886

Electorate(s)

Perth

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLC Perth 19 October 1870–1 May 1886
Contested Perth 11 November 1867

Office

Speaker Legislative Council 5 December 1870–1 May 1886

Private Member's Bills

Personal Information

Birth date

12 July 1828

Place of birth

Stoke Newington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Death date

1 May 1886

Cause of death

Place of death

London, England, United Kingdom

Cemetery

East Perth Cemetery, WA

Arrived in WA

1833, to WA on Cygnet

Parents

Son of Luke, gentleman, and Mary Anne Walpole Brother of George Walpole Leake, and uncle of George Leake

Marriage and Family

Married 11 September 1855, Parish Church, Bromley, Kent to Louisa Walpole, (who re-married in 1887 to Dr Alfred Waylen) daughter of Reverend Thomas Henry
Brother-in-law of Sir James Lee Steere

Religion

Church of England

Education

Occupation

Businessperson

Employment History

1848 trading in sandalwood to China
Ship owner, traded in Indian Ocean in 1850s
Director WA Bank 1855–1886
Money lender

Local Government

Principal Honours

Knight (Kt) 1876

Background/Membership

Vice-president Swan River Mechanics Institute 1863–1864, president 1879–1886
First Captain, Perth Volunteer Rifles 1862–1872
Substantial donor to building fund, St George’s Cathedral, Perth
1879 led free trade opposition to revenue tariffs on foodstuffs
Opposed Responsible Government
Member Central Board of Education 1878–1886
Vice-president 1878–1882 and president Weld Club 1882–1886
Perth Town Trust chairman 1856–1857

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. 16.

Bibliography

Further Information

R Erickson, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
M. Medcalf, 'Leake, Sir Luke Samuel (1828–1886)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/leake-sir-luke-samuel-4430/text6331, published first in hardcopy 1974, accessed online 23 December 2015.
CT Stannage, The people of Perth: a social history of Western Australia's capital city, Perth City Council, Perth, 1979, p. 124–27, 187.
West Australian, 5 May 1886.