Henry John Yelverton (6 April 1854 – 14 January 1906) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in the

Electoral district of Sussex Sussex was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Western Australia from 1890 to 1950. The district was based in south-western Western Australia, including areas such as Busselton and Margaret River, and w ...

from 1901 to 1904. The son of Henry Yelverton, a timber miller, Yelverton was born in

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on 6 April 1854. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College before entering his father's business as a timber contractor in 1872. He later worked as a merchant, farmer and pastoralist. In January 1878, he married Eloise Guerrier; they had four sons and five daughters. When his father died in 1880, Yelverton took over his business. It was eventually bought out by the Imperial Jarrah Wood Corporation, which was subsequently merged into

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. Yelverton began to take in interest in public life, and in 1900 became a

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. On 24 April 1901, he successfully stood for election to the

Western Australian Legislative Assembly The Western Australian Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Western Australia, an Australian state. The Parliament sits in Parliament House in the Western Australian capital, Perth. The Legisla ...

seat of Sussex. He held the seat until the election of 28 June 1904, which he did not contest. Henry Yelverton died on 14 January 1906 in the Government Hospital at Bunbury. At the time of his death, he was the mill manager at

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. He is buried at Busselton Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yelverton, Henry John 1854 births 1906 deaths Members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly Australian timber merchants People from Fremantle People from the South West (Western Australia) 20th-century Australian politicians 19th-century Australian businesspeople 19th-century Australian politicians