Ernest Henty
Ernest George Henty (17 September 1862 – 25 June 1895) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1894 to 1895.
Born in Albury, New South Wales on 17 September 1862, Ernest Henty was the son of squatter , who was either the first[1] or the second[2] white child to be born in the colony of Victoria. The famous Henty brothers, James and Edward, were his great-uncles. As a youth Ernest Henty worked as a clerk for James Henty & Co., spending some years with the firm in Fiji. In 1883 he moved to Melbourne, working as a journalist for the and then the Melbourne Daily Telegraph. From 1885 to 1890 he was editor of the Upper Murray and Mitta Herald, a Tallangatta newspaper. On 12 June 1890 he married Katherine Mary Harvie Alberta Cobham; they had two sons and a daughter. At the time of his marriage his occupation was given as .
Shortly afterwards, Henty emigrated to Western Australia with his brother-in-law, and the men established themselves as merchants under the name Henty, Cobham & Co. Henty became a wine, spirit and tea agent. In 1891, Henty played several matches for the Rovers Football Club in the West Australian Football Association (WAFA).[3] By 1895, the company had branches in Geraldton, Southern Cross and Coolgardie.
On 16 July 1894, Henry was elected to a Central Province seat in the Western Australian Legislative Council. He held the seat until his death at Coolgardie on 25 June 1895.
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- ^ "Obituary". Portland Guardian. Vol. LXII, no. 5263. Victoria, Australia. 27 April 1904. p. 2. Retrieved 26 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia. This and other, later, publications also asserted that his mother was still alive.
- ^ "The Beginning of Farming in Victoria". The Daily Telegraph (Launceston). Vol. XXXIV, no. 107. Tasmania, Australia. 6 May 1914. p. 4. Retrieved 25 September 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Footballers in the House" (PDF). Retrieved 30 September 2011.
- Black, David; Bolton, Geoffrey (2001). Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia, Volume One, 1870–1930 (Revised ed.). Parliament House: Parliament of Western Australia. ISBN 0730738140.
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- Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council
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- Journalists from Melbourne
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- 19th-century Australian journalists
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