The Honourable Sir Edward Wittenoom | |
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President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia | |
In office 27 July 1922 – 10 August 1926 | |
Preceded by | Walter Kingsmill |
Succeeded by | John Kirwan |
Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia | |
In office 30 May 1883 – 23 January 1884 | |
Preceded by | Maitland Brown |
Succeeded by | John Davis |
Constituency | Geraldton |
In office 25 June 1885 – 6 November 1886 | |
Preceded by | Samuel Mitchell |
Succeeded by | Edward Keane |
Constituency | Geraldton |
In office 16 July 1894 – 28 April 1898 | |
Preceded by | None (new creation) |
Succeeded by | William Loton |
Constituency | Central Province |
In office 12 May 1902 – 6 November 1906 | |
Preceded by | Donald McDonald MacKay |
Succeeded by | Richard Pennefather |
Constituency | North Province |
In office 13 May 1910 – 12 May 1934 | |
Preceded by | Robert Frederick Sholl |
Succeeded by | Edward Angelo |
Constituency | North Province |
Personal details | |
Born | Fremantle, Western Australia | 12 December 1854
Died | 5 March 1936 West Perth, Western Australia | (aged 81)
Political party | Liberal (to 1917) Nationalist (after 1917) |
Sir Edward Horne Wittenoom KCMG (12 February 1854 – 5 March 1936) was an Australian politician who served intermittently in the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1883 and 1934, including as President of the Legislative Council from 1922 to 1926. He sat in the Legislative Council from 1883 to 1884, 1885 to 1886, 1894 to 1898, 1902 to 1906, and finally from 1910 to 1934. Wittenoom was a minister in the government of Sir John Forrest, and was also Agent-General for Western Australia between 1898 and 1901.