Michael O'Connor (Australian politician)

Michael O'Connor (11 November 1865 – 6 July 1940) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1901 to 1904.

Born in Newcastle (now Toodyay), Western Australia, on 11 November 1865, Michael O'Connor was the son of Daniel Connor, a former convict who had become one of the wealthiest men in the colony. His use of a different surname vis-à-vis that of his father is believed to be an attempt to obscure his convict origins, which was at that time a substantial social stigma.

As a youth O'Connor was a prominent cricket and polo player, and was captain of the Perth Polo Club. He was educated privately in Western Australia, then sent for further education in Ireland, where he attended Clongowes Wood College of Jesuits in County Kildare, and Trinity College in Dublin. O'Connor attained his medical degrees in 1889, and the following year returned to Western Australia. In 1891 he established a practice in Perth. From 1893 he was the health officer for the metro district; he held the position during Perth's April 1893 epidemic of smallpox. By 1896 he was senior physician at Perth Public Hospital (now Royal Perth Hospital), and physician and superintendent at the Victoria Hospital in Subiaco. In July of that year he married Beatrice Margaret Mary Forbes; they would have four children.

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