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Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

George Leake

Parliamentary Service

House

MLC MLA

Party

Opposed to Forrest

Date Elected

7 September 1886

Electorate

Roebourne

Service

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

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1902

Personal Information

Birth date

3 December 1856

Place of birth

Perth, Western Australia

Death date

24 June 1902

Place of death

St George’s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia

Cemetery

East Perth Cemetery, Western Australia

Parents

Son of George Walpole Leake, barrister and MLC, and Rose Ellen Gliddon and brother-in-law of Septimus Burt

Marriage and Family

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

Religion

Church of England

Education

Educated Bishop Hale’s School, St Peter’s College, Adelaide, South Australia
South Australian Bar, 1880
Articled in his father’s legal firm, 1875

Occupation

Lawyer

Employment History

Admitted to Bar and partnership, 1880
Acting Crown Solicitor and Public Prosecutor, 1881 and 1883
Crown Solicitor, 1883–1894
Queen's Counsel, 1898

Principal Honours

Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) (posthumous)

Background/Membership

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

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. 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

Further Information

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.