Andrew Harriot Henning LLB (17 May 1865 – 2 December 1947) was a lawyer and politician in Western Australia.

History

Andrew Henning was born in

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, a son of Rudolph Wilhelm Emil Henning (died 1884) MHA and Young Catherine Henning née Harriot (died 1925) who married in 1860. Rudolph was a member of a large emigrant from Germany that arrived in South Australia aboard ''Pauline'' in December 1849. Henning was a prize-winning student at

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and

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, then studied law at the

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, graduating LLB in 1887. He practised as a barrister and solicitor at

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and in 1894 moved to Western Australia to practise in Coolgardie, where he helped found the Coolgardie Chamber of Mines. In 1896 he moved to Perth, where he practised as a solicitor until 1907, when he retired. This reference (mis-)spells his middle name "Herriott" He was a member for the North-East Province in the Legislative Council from June 1897 to May 1898. He was a Western Australian representatives at the

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. He purchased a property at Yalup Brook, where he grew fruit and bred

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, his wool winning a medallion for at the Exhibition in

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, France, in 1911. He was a member of the

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. He was chairman of the Drakesbrook Road Board for five years. He retired to Cotherstone Road, Kalamunda in 1927, and that same year he was a guest of the Federal Government at the opening of

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in appreciation of his work at the Federal Convention. He died in the Mount Hospital, St. George's Terrace.

Family

Henning married Nellie Stewart (died 18 June 1913), granddaughter of SA politician

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on 11 June 1896. His wife and her mother died at

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within two days of each other. Their only surviving son, Charles Harriot Henning, was a military officer who also eventually became a member of parliament. He married again on 28 March 1946 to Frances Rosa Robley (1889–1970).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Henning, Andrew 19th-century Australian lawyers Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council 1865 births 1947 deaths 20th-century Australian lawyers