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Titus Lander (5 April 1861 – 8 January 1948) was an Australian politician and
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advocate. He was the first salaried
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inspector in
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, and later served a single term in the state's Legislative Assembly (from 1911 to 1914), where he secured the passage of an animal welfare bill.


Early life

Lander was born in
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, England, to Margaret (née Moran) and James Brooke Lander. He trained as a
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, which had been his father's profession, and emigrated to
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in 1883. He later lived for periods in
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and
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, working as a monumental mason. Lander arrived in Western Australia in October 1892.Titus (Peter) Lander
Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 5 January 2017. He initially continued in the masonry trade, but soon began volunteering as an inspector for the local branch of the
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. Lander began working full-time for the SPCA in 1894, and until 1906 was the organisation's only salaried inspector in Western Australia. In 1907, he had a
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built at his home in
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, allowing stray cats and dogs to be euthanised humanely.HISTORY OF THE RSPCA IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
RSPCA Western Australia. Retrieved 5 January 2016. Outside of his animal welfare work, Lander also sat the Sanitary Institute exams, allowing him to work as a food inspector for the Perth board of health.


Politics and later life

Lander was elected to the Perth City Council in 1909, and to parliament at the 1911 state election, standing for the Labor Party in the seat of East Perth. His candidacy was helped by the fact that the sitting member, John Hardwick, made a mistake in submitting his nomination and was thus unable to be listed on the ballot."THE EAST PERTH NOMINATIONS"
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'', 25 September 1911. In parliament, Lander introduced a bill which was eventually passed into law as the ''Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1912'', the first of its kind in Western Australia. His time as an MP was short, however, as Hardwick reclaimed the seat at the 1914 election. After leaving politics, Lander bought a farm in Bruce Rock, also providing veterinary services for the surrounding area. He retired to Merredin in 1936, and died in Perth in 1948, aged 86. He had married Lucinda Jane Beattie in 1887, with whom he had four children.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lander, Titus 1861 births 1948 deaths 20th-century Australian politicians Animal welfare and rights in Australia Australian animal welfare workers Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Western Australia British emigrants to colonial Australia Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly People from Harrow on the Hill Perth City Councillors