Members’ biographical register

Henry Lefroy

House

MLA

Party

Liberal till 1917 then National Country Party 1920–1921

Date first elected

2 August 1892

Year Retired/Resigned

1921

Electorate(s)

Moore

Valedictory Video

Parliamentary Service

Service

Electorates

MLA Moore 2 August 1892 (by-election)–24 April 1901, 3 October 1911–12 March 1921
Contested Metropolitan–Suburban Province 14 May 1906, Moore 12 March 1921

Office

Minister for Education 12 May 1897–28 April 1898; for Mines 28 April 1898–27 May 1901; for Lands and Agriculture 27 July 1916–28 June 1917
Premier and Minister for Lands 28 June 1917–17 April 1919

Federal Council

Delegate to Federal Council 1895 and 1897

Personal Information

Death date

19 March 1930

Place of death

Walebing, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia

Occupation

Farmer and agent general

Employment History

Managed father’s property which he inherited at Walebing, Victoria Plains
Agent General for WA in London, July 1901–1904

Local Government

Victoria Plains Road Board 1872–1899, chairman 1876–1897, served again from September 1906–1909 Moora Road Board Chairman 1 January 1909–1917

Principal Honours

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (1903) Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) (1919)

Background/Membership

Returned to WA 1873
Justice of the Peace 1874
Member local Board of Education
After 1921 spent last years at Walebing
While at Rugby outstanding at sport especially cricket

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. 121.

Further Information

Battye, JS. The Cyclopedia of Western Australia, vol 1, p. 346–347. Catherine Cameron, 'Lefroy, Sir Henry Bruce (1853–1930)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lefroy-sir-henry-bruce-7159/text12365, published first in hardcopy 1986, accessed online 23 December 2015. Includes family tree.
R Erickson, The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
Kimberly, WB. History of West Australia, p. 31–32.
Reid, GS and MR Oliver The premiers of Western Australia 1890-1982.
Twentieth century impressions of Western Australia, p. 39.