Mathieson Jacoby
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The Honourable Mathieson Jacoby |
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Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
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In office 28 July 1904 – 27 October 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Charles Harper |
| Succeeded by | Timothy Quinlan |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
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In office 24 April 1901 – 27 October 1905 |
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| Preceded by | Norman Ewing |
| Succeeded by | Arthur Gull |
| Constituency | Swan |
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In office 11 September 1908 – 3 October 1911 |
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| Preceded by | Arthur Gull |
| Succeeded by | Philip Turvey |
| Constituency | Swan |
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Manuel Harry Jacoby 1 July 1869 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| Died | 3 April 1915 (aged 45) North Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Mathieson Harry Jacoby (1 July 1869 – 3 April 1915) was an Australian politician who twice represented the seat of Swan in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, from 1901 to 1905 and then again from 1908 to 1911. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1904 to 1905. Outside politics Jacoby was a noted viticulturist, one of the pioneers of the West Australian wine industry.
Jacoby was born in Adelaide to Hannah (née Mathieson) and Daniel Jacoby. The Jacoby family moved from to Western Australia in 1891, and Mathieson Jacoby (who had worked for the Telegraph Department in South Australia) initially gained work in Perth as an agent for Adelaide firms. In 1893, assisted by their father, he and his two brothers (Frederick and Ted) bought a vineyard in the Perth Hills, abutting the Smiths Mill Line of the Eastern Railway. After talking with the Aboriginal inhabitants of the area, Jacoby decided to adopt "Mundaring", an approximation of their name for the area, as the name of the property, which was subsequently extended to the nearby railway siding and eventually to the surrounding locality. In December 1897, the vineyard was incorporated as a limited liability company – the Mundaring Vineyard Company. Jacoby was made managing director, despite having lost his left eye in a blasting accident earlier in the year. He already had poor sight in his other eye, which had been struck by a when he was thirteen. One of the nurses at the hospital where Jacoby recovered after his accident was Mary Cresswell. The two married in January 1899, and had three sons and a daughter together.
Jacoby entered politics at the 1901 state election, winning the seat of Swan against former MLC Hugh McKernan. He had first become involved in public life shortly after arriving in Western Australia, when he and George McWilliams established the first branch of the St John Ambulance in the colony. Jacoby's candidacy was endorsed by The Sunday Times, who regarded him as "a clean citizen and a trustworthy politician with a democratic programme", and also noted that he had "won the confidence of the Labor Party". In the election, he stood in opposition to the government of George Throssell, with the four other nominees for the seat comprising two pro-Throssell candidates, one Labor candidate, and one independent candidate. Jacoby was elected with 44.7 percent of the vote, under the first-past-the-post system in place at the time, and consequently replaced Norman Ewing, who had resigned just before the election to enter federal politics.
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