Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia

Henry Willoughby Mann

Parliamentary Service

House

MLA

Party

Nationalist

Date Elected

12 March 1921

Electorate

Perth

Service

Electorates

MLA Perth, March 1921–April 1933
Contested Perth 8 April 1933, 15 February 1936, 18 March 1939, Metropolitan–Suburban Province 11 May 1940 (Independent National)

Inaugural Speech

Year Retired/Resigned

1933

Personal Information

Birth date

18 July 1873

Place of birth

Nuggelly, Mount Alexander, Talbot, Victoria, Australia

Death date

4 October 1952

Place of death

Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia

Cemetery

Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia. Crematorium Rose Gardens, Wall C, 0057

Arrived in WA

Arrived WA from Victoria 1895

Parents

Son of Henry Boar, miner and newsagent, and Mary Jane Willoughby

Marriage and Family

Married 16 August 1899, residence of James Barnes, Castlemaine, Victoria (Primitive Methodist) to Emma Charlotte Barnes (born circa 1875 or 1885 and presumed died 2 January 1950), daughter of James and Eliza Marsh Widowed 2 January 1950
No children

Religion

Methodist

Occupation

Police officer and commission agent

Employment History

Joined WA police force, 1897
Resigned as detective inspector, 1920
Chief, CIB and formed commission agency
Lessee of farm at Nungarin, by 1924
Resident of Perth but gave occupation as wheat farmer, 1936

Background/Membership

First president, Ugly Men’s Association, sixteen years vice-president
Life governor and member, Children’s Hospital Board for 17 years
Assisted establishment and chairman, Instruction School for Returned Soldiers
Member, executive, New Settlers’ League, for 10 years
Member, Alexandra Home for Girls Board of Finance, for nine years
Chairman, Daily News, 1929; Carnival Committee, 1930; Queen’s Carnival and 1931 Golden Apple Appeal and chairman Mirror welfare fund
Chairman of committee controlling Sewing Centre and Refreshment Room for unemployed single girls and women, 1930
Chairman of committee which established farm at Wokalup for unemployed boys
Honorary member, Charities Consultation Committee
President, East Perth Football Club, 1913–1921, patron, 1931–1933

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, 2010, p. 135.
Metropolitan Cemeteries Board website. Accessed online 6 July 2022. https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/?id=6dd1d091-f61c-ec11-b6e7-00224814c4b9

Further Information

Erikson, Rica. The bicentennial dictionary of Western Australians, pre-1829-1888, Volume III.
West Australian, 24 March 1924, 5 October 1952.