Anthony Loton

Anthony Loton
President of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia
In office
17 June 1954 – 6 August 1958
Preceded bySir Harold Seddon
Succeeded bySir Charles Latham
Member of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia
In office
18 November 1944 – 21 May 1950
Preceded byHarold Piesse
Succeeded byGeorge Bennetts
ConstituencySouth-East Province
In office
21 May 1950 – 21 May 1965
Preceded byGeorge Bennetts
Succeeded byEdward House
ConstituencySouth Province
Personal details
Born
Anthony Lloyd Loton

(1904-02-13)13 February 1904
Upper Swan, Western Australia
Died14 May 1998(1998-05-14) (aged 94)
Kalamunda, Western Australia
Political partyCountry

Anthony Lloyd Loton (13 February 1904 – 14 May 1998) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1944 to 1965. He was President of the Legislative Council from 1954 to 1958.

Loton was born in Upper Swan, Western Australia, to Annie Campbell (née Forrest) and Ernest William Loton. His mother was a niece of Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia, and his paternal grandfather, Sir William Loton, was a Mayor of Perth. Loton was educated in Perth, attending Christ Church Grammar School and Hale School. After leaving school, he initially farmed on his father's farm at Upper Swan, but later took over a property in Popanyinning (a small Wheatbelt locality). Prominent in agricultural circles, Loton was elected to parliament at a 1944 by-election for the Legislative Council's South-East Province, which had been caused by the death of Harold Piesse. After the 1947 state election, he was made deputy chairman of committees. In May 1954, the President of the Legislative Council, Sir Harold Seddon, lost his seat, and Loton was elected in his place. The first holder of the office from the Country Party, he served in the position for just over four years, leaving office in August 1958. Loton retired from parliament at the 1965 state election.[1]

  1. ^ Anthony Lloyd Loton – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 May 2016.