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About Richard Sholl
- Captain Richard Adolphus Sholl, J.P., (18 December 1847 – 9 May 1919) was a Postmaster-General in Western Australia. Sholl was the son of Robert John Sholl and Mary Ann (née Berckelman) his wife, and was born in Bunbury, Western Australia.
- He entered the Civil Service of Western Australia as a probation clerk in the Post Office in 1863, and became Chief Clerk of the department in 1873; Chief Clerk and Accountant of the Treasury in 1879; Chief Clerk of the Post Office in 1881; and Postmaster-General in 1889.
- He became lieutenant in the Metropolitan Rifles in 1875, captain in 1883, and captain commandant in 1888.
- He was appointed a Justice of the Peace of the colony in 1891.
- Captain Sholl married Mary Howard, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders, late 30th Regiment on 7 January 1887; having earlier married Eline Florence Ashton (died 1877) on 19 September 1872 by who he had a daughter and two sons.Sholl was deputy postmaster-general in Western Australia from 1901, when the Commonwealth of Australia took over posts and telegraphs, and retired in 1904.
- Sholl was also director of the Perth Building Society and for many years honorary secretary of the West Australian Turf Club.
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