George Frederick Stone (1812 – 18 August 1875) was a Western Australian lawyer and Attorney General of Western Australia from 1854 to 1857 and again from 1860 to 1870.[1]

In July 1833, he was appointed notary public. In 1834, he was named as acting sheriff, the position becoming permanent in 1839. In 1841, he became registrar of births, marriages and deaths. Elected to the Agricultural Society in 1841, he was appointed a director and temporary secretary of the Western Australian Bank, which had been established in June 1841.

Death

Stone died at Rose Hill, Perth, on 18 August 1875.

Family

On 6 September 1838, Stone married Charlotte Maria, daughter of Captain F. Whitfield, resident magistrate of Toodyay. Of their nine children, their second son, Edward Albert Stone, was Chief Justice of Western Australia, while another son, Frank Mends Stone, was a member of the Parliament of Western Australia.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ E. M. Russell, ‘Early Lawyers of Western Australia’, Journal and Proceedings (Western Australian Historical Society), vol 4, part 3, 1951, pp. 32–53.
  2. ↑ Frank Mends Stone, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2016.

References

  • Chate, Alfred H. "Stone, George Frederick (1812–1875)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 23 July 2011.


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