Sydney Stubbs
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The Honourable Sydney Stubbs CMG |
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Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
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In office 30 July 1930 – 17 July 1933 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Walker |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Panton |
| Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia |
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In office 22 May 1908 – 20 September 1911 Serving with Walter Kingsmill (1908–1910) Joseph Langsford (1908–1911) Douglas Gawler (1910–1911) |
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| Preceded by | Zebina Lane |
| Succeeded by | Frederick Davis |
| Constituency | Metropolitan-Suburban Province |
| Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia |
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In office 3 October 1911 – 15 March 1947 |
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| Preceded by | New constituency |
| Succeeded by | Crawford Nalder |
| Constituency | Wagin |
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19 July 1861 Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia |
| Died | 30 July 1953 (aged 92) Subiaco, Western Australia, Australia |
| Political party |
Liberal (1911–1917) Country (1917–1924) Nationalist (1924–1927) Country (from 1927) |
Sydney Stubbs CMG (19 July 1861 – 30 July 1953) was an Australian politician who served twice in the Parliament of Western Australia: in the Legislative Council from 1908 to 1911, and then in the Legislative Assembly from 1911 to 1947. He was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly from 1930 to 1933, and had been Mayor of Claremont and then Mayor of Perth prior to entering parliament.
Stubbs was born in Warrnambool, Victoria, to Agnes (née Aitken) and William Alexander Stubbs. He worked as a schoolteacher for a time in the late 1870s before securing a position with John Danks & Son, a hardware company with which he was employed from 1879 to 1894, working variously as a clerk, travelling salesman, and engineer. Stubbs arrived in Western Australia in 1895, and with a partner established a hardware firm in Perth, Drake & Stubbs. The firm was eventually bought out by another hardware merchant, Alfred Sandover, in 1907. In 1901, Stubbs (a resident of the suburb of Claremont) was elected mayor of the Claremont Municipality unopposed, replacing Joseph Langsford. In 1903, it was initially reported that would contest the vacancy in the Legislative Council left by the death of Barrington Clarke Wood, but he did not go on to nominate for the election.
Opting not to contest the 1903 Claremont mayoral election, two years later Stubbs ran for Mayor of Perth against Thomas Molloy. On a then-record turnout of almost 8,000 voters, he polled 54.01 percent of the vote, replacing Harry Brown (who did not re-contest) as mayor. The following year, Stubbs was re-elected unopposed, the first mayor since Alexander Forrest in 1899 to be returned in that fashion. He left office in December 1907 without re-contesting, and was replaced by his previous opponent, Molloy. However, Stubbs re-entered the public arena the following year, when he was elected unopposed to the Legislative Council's Metropolitan-Suburban Province, replacing the retiring Zebina Lane.
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