Frederick Lytton Warner, MM (4 December 1875 – 17 January 1952) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Assembly of

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from 1933 to 1943, representing the seat of Mount Marshall. Warner was born in

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, to Diana (née Tippett) and Gustavus Meredith Warner. He arrived in Western Australia in 1895, initially worked as a labourer and then in 1900 joining the

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. Warner spent periods as a police constable in Perth,

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, Maylands, and

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. He joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1916, and served in France with the 44th Battalion. Warner was awarded the

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in 1918, for helping capture enemy machine guns. He was discharged in 1919 and rejoined the police force.Frederick Lytton Warner
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 14 January 2017. In 1922, Warner began farming at Nungarin, a small Wheatbelt locality. He became prominent in local agricultural circles, and at the 1933 state election was elected to parliament as an Independent Country candidate, defeating

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(the sitting Country Party member) in Mount Marshall. Warner sought (and received) Country Party endorsement for the

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, and was re-elected with an increased majority. He was again re-elected in 1939, but did not recontest his seat at the 1943 election. Warner retired to Perth, dying there in January 1952 (aged 76). He had married Emma Kirby in 1897, with whom he had seven children.

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