Electoral District Of Greenough (Legislative Council)
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Greenough was an electoral district of the
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of
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from 1870 to 1890, during the period when the Legislative Council was the sole chamber of the
Parliament of Western Australia The Parliament of Western Australia is the bicameralism, bicameral legislature of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia, which constitutes the legislative branch of the state's political system. The parl ...
. Greenough was one of the original ten Legislative Council districts created by the ''Legislative Council Act 1870'' (33 Vict, No. 13). In the west, the district's boundaries contained areas of the southern
Mid West The Mid West region is one of the nine regions of Western Australia. It is a sparsely populated region extending from the west coast of Western Australia, about north and south of its administrative centre of Geraldton and inland to east of W ...
(south of the mouth of the
Greenough River The Greenough River is a river in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Course Greenough River has its headwaters near Woojalong Hills on the Yilgarn Plateau. It runs in a south-westerly direction through deep valleys for approximately ...
) and northern Wheatbelt. It also ran inland to the border with
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, though those regions were almost unpopulated at the time. The major settlement in the district was the town of Greenough.. Four men represented Greenough in the Legislative Council between 1870 and 1890, with
Charles Crowther Charles Crowther (1831 – 17 March 1894) was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1873 to 1887. Born in Lincoln, England, in 1834, nothing is known of his ancestry or early life. In December 1850 he arrived in Western A ...
serving the longest (from 1873 to 1887). The district's final member,
William Loton Sir William Thorley Loton (11 June 1838 – 22 October 1924), was an Australian politician. Early life Born at Dilhorne in Staffordshire, England on 11 June 1838,Pat Simpson, 'Loton, Sir William Thorley (1838–1924)', Australian Dictionary of ...
, was elected to the Legislative Assembly after the advent of
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in 1890.''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)''
, p. 370.


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