Alfred Youl, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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grazier, liberal/conservative politician, local government councillor, Member of Lower House and Member of Upper House.
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About Alfred Youl
- Alfred Youl (23 August 1849 – 3 February 1921) was an Australian politician.
- He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Longford from 1903 to 1909 and a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Macquarie from 1909 to 1920.Youl was born into a prominent Tasmanian family at the family home, Symmons Plains Estate, near Perth.
- His family moved to Surrey in England in 1854, and he was educated at St Aubin's School in Jersey and Uppingham School in Leicestershire.
- He married Margaret Mansell in 1875, after which they returned to Tasmania and acquired the notable Leighlands property, near Perth.
- Youl thereafter became a grazier and prominent community figure, serving as a member (1884-1898) and five-time Warden of the Evandale Municipal Council, member (1898-1916) and Warden of the Longford Municipal Council, a member of the Perth Road Trust for over three decades, including a stint as trust chairman, chairman of the Longford Court of Petty Sessions, a justice of the peace, special magistrate for old age pensions and a member of the licensing bench and local board of health.
- Margaret Youl died in 1888, and he married Annette Francis Wigan in 1891.He was elected to the House of Assembly in 1903 and re-elected in 1906.
- His House of Assembly seat was abolished from the 1909 election, and he contested and won the Legislative Council seat of Macquarie instead.
- He served until his defeat by George Pitt in 1920.He died at Leighlands, in 1921, and was buried in Perth.
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