Frank Mends Stone (19 April 1857 – 10 September 1942) was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of

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from 1894 to 1906, representing North Province. Stone was born in

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to Charlotte Maria (née Whitfield) and

George Frederick Stone 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.E. M. Russell, ‘Early Lawyers of Western Australia’, Journal and Proceedi ...

. His father was

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on two occasions, while an older brother, Sir

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, was the fourth

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. Like his relatives, Stone entered the legal profession. He was an associate to Sir

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(the chief justice) from 1876 to 1878, and was

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in 1882. Stone entered parliament at the 1894 Legislative Council elections, when he was elected to a six-year term in North Province. He was re-elected in 1900, and retired at the end of that term, in June 1906.Frank Mends Stone
– Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2016. Stone eventually retired to the country, dying in

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in September 1942, aged 85."LATE MR. F. STONE."
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'', 11 September 1942.

Personal life

He had married Anne Elizabeth Lapsley in 1880, with whom he had three children. He later had another four children with a ''

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'' wife, Dorothy Eileen Meagher.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Frank 1857 births 1942 deaths Australian barristers Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council Politicians from Perth, Western Australia Colony of Western Australia people