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Alexander Campbell Onslow
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Principal Honours | | Knight 1895 |
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Birth | | Date: 17 July 1842
Place: Trichinopoly, India |
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Parents | | Son of Arthur Pooley Onslow and Rosa Roberta Macleay |
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Marriage and Family | | Married 4 February 1878 to Madeleine Emma Loftus Tottenham (born 1857), daughter of Reverend Robert Loftus and Dorothy Anketell
Children: two daughters |
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Death | | Date: 20 October 1908
Place: Bembridge, Isle of Wight, England, United Kingdom |
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Education | | Educated Brighton College and Westminster School
Trinity College, Cambridge, 1866, BA |
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Occupation | | Lawyer |
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Employment History | | 1868 called to Bar, Inner Temple
Practised on home circuit until Attorney-General, British Honduras 1878
1880 to WA as Attorney-General 21 March 1881–29 December 1882
Chief Justice 1883–1901
1884–1885 administered colony during absence of Governor Broome, who ‘interdicted’ him for premature publication of official correspondence
Administrator of Western Australia 18 March–22 December 1895, 30 June 1900–3 March 1901. 1887–1889 on half-pay. Restored with rebuke from Colonial Office
1889–1891 temporarily suspended after quarrel with Legislative Council but restored to office
Retired 3 March 1901 to Isle of Wight, England |
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House | | MLC |
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Date Elected | | 21 March 1881 |
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Speeches | | Search for speeches by Alexander Onslow |
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Year Retired/Resigned | | 1883 |
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Electorate | | Nominated |
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Parliamentary Service | | Electorates
- Nominated MLC 21 March 1881–9 April 1883
Office
- Attorney-General 21 March 1881–29 December 1882
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Background/Membership | | Talented amateur bass singer |
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Qualifications | | BA |
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References | | Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 1966-.
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. 20.
R Erickson, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
E Russell, A history of the law in Western Australia and its development from 1829 to 1979, University of Western Australia Press, Nedlands, WA, p. 208–212 (portrait)
JA Venn, Alumini Cantabrigiensis 1752–1900, Cambridge 1951, Vol. IV, p. 593. |
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