Henry Stevens (Australian politician)

Henry Stevens
Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly
for Rosewood
In office
16 September 1911  16 March 1918
Preceded by Denis Keogh
Succeeded by William Cooper
Personal details
Born Henry Moreton Stevens
1854
South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Died 15 November 1935 (aged 80-81)
Rosewood, Queensland, Australia
Resting place Tallegalla Cemetery
Nationality Australian
Political party Queensland Liberal
Other political
affiliations
Ministerialist
Spouse(s) Helen Hunt Mossop (m.1880 d.1904), Jessie Mabel Webster (m.1911 m.1956)
Occupation Company director
Religion Congregationalist

Henry Moreton Stevens (1854 - 15 November 1935) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.[1]

Biography

Stevens was born at South Brisbane, Queensland, the son of Samuel Stevens and his wife Jane (née Colton). He was educated at the Brisbane National School and was a director of the Lanefield Co-Operative Dairy Co. and also the Queensland Farmers' Co-Operative District Co..

On the 27th October 1880 he married Helen Hunt Mossop (died 1904) at Goodna and together had one son and one daughter. Helen died in 1904 and Stevens then married Jessie Mabel Webster (died 1956) on the 26th April 1911. He died in November 1935 and his funeral proceeded from the Rosewood Congregational Church to the Tallegalla Cemetery.

Henry Moreton Stevens and Jessie Mabel Webster's wedding,1911

Public life

Stevens, the Ministerialist candidate, won the by-election in 1911 for the seat of Rosewood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, replacing Denis Keogh, who had died in August of that year.[2] He held the seat until the 1918 state election, when he lost to William Cooper of the Labor Party.[3]

References

  1. "Former Members". Parliament of Queensland. 2015. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  2. "ROSEWOOD.". The Brisbane Courier (16,750). Queensland, Australia. 18 September 1911. p. 7. Retrieved 20 April 2016 via National Library of Australia.
  3. "SUMMARY OF THE VOTING.". The Brisbane Courier (18,772). Queensland, Australia. 18 March 1918. p. 7. Retrieved 20 April 2016 via National Library of Australia.
Parliament of Queensland
Preceded by
Denis Keogh
Member for Rosewood
19111918
Succeeded by
William Cooper


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