Thomas Draper

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Lawrence Jackson
Attorney-General of Western Australia
In office
17 May 1919 – 12 March 1921
PremierSir James Mitchell
Preceded byRobert Thomson Robinson
Succeeded byThomas Davy
Member of the Legislative Assembly
of Western Australia
In office
2 September 1907 – 3 October 1911
Preceded byFrederick Illingworth
Succeeded byEben Allen
ConstituencyWest Perth
In office
29 September 1917 – 12 March 1921
Preceded byEben Allen
Succeeded byEdith Cowan
ConstituencyWest Perth
Personal details
Born(1864-12-29)29 December 1864
Nationalist (after 1917)
Alma materClare College, Cambridge

Thomas Percy Draper

CBE KC (29 December 1864 – 11 July 1946) was an Australian lawyer, politician, and judge. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1907 to 1911 and again from 1917 to 1921, and was attorney-general in the first government of Sir James Mitchell. He later served on the Supreme Court of Western Australia
from 1921 to 1939.

Early life

Draper was born in

associate to Alfred Hensman, a judge on the Supreme Court. Draper went into private practice in 1894, and eventually became a partner in the firm of Stephen Henry Parker. He was elected to the Perth City Council in 1899, defeating Frank Wilson (a future premier), but resigned his seat in 1901.[2]

Parliamentary career

Draper entered parliament at

Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for his wartime services. He was promoted to commander of the order (CBE) in October of the same year.[2]

In May 1919,

two-candidate-preferred vote against Draper.[3][4] She became the first female parliamentarian in Australia,[5] while Draper became the first sitting attorney-general to lose his seat at a general election.[6][a]

Judicial career and later life

In April 1921, just over a month after losing his seat in parliament, Draper was nominated to the Supreme Court as a

Lawrence Jackson was appointed as the new fourth justice.[9]

Draper died in Perth in July 1946, aged 81.

Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) from 1924 to 1939.[10] He was married twice, firstly to Mabel Constance Parker in 1894, with whom he had four sons and two daughters. He was widowed in 1930, and remarried the following year to Bessie Melrose Barker (née Ferguson), but was widowed a second time in 1944. Draper was related by marriage to two other prominent legal identities in Western Australia – his first wife was the daughter of Sir Stephen Henry Parker, who was chief justice between 1906 and 1913, while her sister, Rose Elizabeth Parker, married Sir Norbert Keenan, who was attorney-general between 1906 and 1909.[1]

Notes

  1. ^ Frederick Moorhead, attorney-general in the short-lived government of Alf Morgans, was defeated in his seat while in the ministry, but this occurred at a ministerial by-election rather than a general election.

References

  1. ^ a b c Thomas Percy Draper – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  2. ^
    OCLC 70677943
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  3. ^
    ISBN 0730984095
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  4. ^ "WEST PERTH.", The Western Mail, 17 March 1921.
  5. OCLC 70677943
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  6. ^ The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition) Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (2014), Parliament of Western Australia, p. 388.
  7. ^ "MR. JUSTICE DRAPER.", The West Australian, 22 December 1938.
  8. ^ "ARBITRATION BENCH.", The West Australian, 23 August 1939.
  9. ^ Former Judges and Masters – Supreme Court of Western Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2016.
  10. ^ "NEW W.A.C.A. PRESIDENT.", The West Australian, 1 June 1939.
Parliament of Western Australia
Preceded by Member for West Perth
1907–1911
1917–1921 		Succeeded by
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1919–1921 		Succeeded by
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