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Place of Birth: Nannup, Western Australia, Australia
About Francis Drake Willmott
- Francis Drake "Frank" Willmott (23 January 1904 – 4 August 2004) was an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1955 to 1974.
- He is the only member of the Parliament of Western Australia known to have lived past the age of 100.Willmott was born in Nannup, a small town in the South West region of Western Australia, to Frances Edith (née Brockman) and Francis Edward Sykes Willmott.
- His father, uncle (Edmund Vernon Brockman), and first cousin (William Willmott) were all also members of parliament.
- Willmott was sent to Perth to be educated, boarding at Hale School.
- He afterward returned to his father's farm near Bridgetown, which he and his brother eventually took over.
- Willmott was elected to the Bridgetown Road Board in 1941, serving until 1947.A long-time member of the Liberal Party, Willmott was elected to parliament at a Legislative Council by-election in September 1955, necessitated by the death of Charles Henning.
- Representing South-West Province, a Liberal stronghold, he was elected unopposed at all subsequent elections.
- Willmott was appointed deputy chairman of committees after the 1965 state election, serving until his retirement at the 1974 election.
- He retired to Perth after leaving parliament, where he died in August 2004, aged 100.
- Willmott had married Edith Frances Riches in 1934, with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
- His wife was a granddaughter of James Henry Young, who was a state MP in New South Wales.
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