William Leonard Baker
William Baker | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia | |
| In office 20 December 1890 – 7 January 1893 | |
| Succeeded by | Francis Connor |
| Constituency | East Kimberley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 16 May 1831 Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales[a] |
| Died | 7 January 1893 (aged 61) Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia |
William Leonard Baker (16 May 1831 – 7 January 1893) was an Australian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1890 until his death, representing the seat of East Kimberley.
Baker was born in Newport, Wales.[a] He emigrated to Australia in the early 1850s, during the Victorian gold rush, and later went to Queensland, where he was involved in mining ventures in Charters Towers and near the Cape River. Baker came to Western Australia in 1885, during a gold rush in the Kimberley, and opened a store in Wyndham.[1] He was elected to parliament at the 1890 general election, which was the first to be held for the Legislative Assembly.[2] Baker died in Fremantle in January 1893, having suffered from pleurisy and bronchitis for some time.[3] He was the first member of the Legislative Assembly to die in office.[2]
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- ^ William Leonard Baker – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2016.
- ^ a b Black, David; Prescott, Valerie (1997). Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.
- ^ "GENERAL NEWS.", The Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), 9 January 1893.