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Samuel Hamersley

Samuel Hamersley
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Born 12 October 1842
Guildford, Western Australia
Died 1 October 1896
Guildford, Western Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation Farmer
Politician
Spouse(s) Matilda Brown
Parent(s) Edward Hamersley (Snr)
Relatives Edward Hamersley (Jnr) (brother)
Margaret Forrest (sister)
William Locke Brockman (uncle)
Thomas Brown (father-in-law)
Maitland Brown (brother-in-law)
Kenneth Brown (brother-in-law)

Samuel Richard Hamersley (1842–1896) was a Western Australian pastoralist, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for six years.

Samuel Hamersley was born in Guildford, Western Australia on 12 October 1842. The Hamersleys were a well connected family, and he was related by blood or marriage to a number of prominent Western Australian farmers and politicians. His father, Edward, was one of the leading Western Australian landholders of his day; his brother Edward also became a Member of the Legislative Council; William Locke Brockman was his uncle; his sister Margaret married Sir John Forrest; and his wife Matilda was sister to Maitland Brown.

At the age of one, he went with his family to France. The family returned to Western Australia in 1850, building a home in Guildford. In his youth, he farmed in Toodyay, York and Swan Districts under a system of tenant farming.

In 1863, he was a member of an exploring expedition to the Glenelg River.

From about 1865 until 1868, he managed the family's Richmond property at Williams; he then spend some time at Wungong in the Canning district, before returning to Guildford in 1870. In 1873, he was running a butchering business, and in 1875 he inherited his father's Haseley property in Toodyay.


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