Edward Wittenoom
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The Honourable Sir Edward Wittenoom KCMG |
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President of the Legislative Council of Western Australia |
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In office 27 July 1922 – 10 August 1926 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Kingsmill |
| Succeeded by | John Kirwan |
| Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia |
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In office 30 May 1883 – 23 January 1884 |
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| Preceded by | Maitland Brown |
| Succeeded by | John Davis |
| Constituency | Geraldton |
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In office 25 June 1885 – 6 November 1886 |
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| Preceded by | Samuel Mitchell |
| Succeeded by | Edward Keane |
| Constituency | Geraldton |
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In office 16 July 1894 – 28 April 1898 |
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| Preceded by | None (new creation) |
| Succeeded by | William Loton |
| Constituency | Central Province |
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In office 12 May 1902 – 6 November 1906 |
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| Preceded by | Donald MacKay |
| Succeeded by | Richard Pennefather |
| Constituency | North Province |
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In office 13 May 1910 – 12 May 1934 |
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| Preceded by | Robert Frederick Sholl |
| Succeeded by | Edward Angelo |
| Constituency | North Province |
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12 December 1854 Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia |
| Died | 5 March 1936 (aged 81) West Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Political party |
Liberal (to 1917) Nationalist (after 1917) |
Sir Edward Horne Wittenoom KCMG (12 February 1854 – 5 March 1936) was an Australian politician who served intermittently in the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1883 and 1934, including as President of the Legislative Council from 1922 to 1926. He sat in the Legislative Council from 1883 to 1884, 1885 to 1886, 1894 to 1898, 1902 to 1906, and finally from 1910 to 1934. Wittenoom was a minister in the government of Sir John Forrest, and was also Agent-General for Western Australia between 1898 and 1901.
Born in Fremantle, Western Australia on 12 February 1854, Wittenoom was the son of bank director and pastoralist Charles Wittenoom. He was educated at Bishop Hale's School (now Hale School) in Perth, then at 15 worked at Bowes sheep station at Northampton from the age of 15. In 1874, he took up sheep farming with his brother Frank at Yuin in the Murchison district, before returning to Bowes in 1877 to lease and manage it. On 23 April 1878 he married Laura Habgood; they would have two sons and three daughters.
In 1881, Wittenoom purchased the Geraldton station White Peak from John Drummond, and established a sheep stud farm there. From 1883 to 1886 he also owned a station at La Grange. He ran a stock and station agency in Geraldton in 1886 and 1887, but later sold it. He became heavily involved in business and finance, becoming managing director for Dalgety & Co. in 1901; chairman of directors of Millars Karri and Jarrah Co.; chairman of Bovril Australian Estates; director of the Bank of New South Wales; director of Commercial Union Insurance; and director of the WA Bank. He was president of the Pastoralists' Association from 1912 to 1915, and again in 1917.
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