- Robert Pilkington
Robert Rivington Pilkington (
8 February 1870 –30 June 1942 ) was an Irishpolitician who sat in theWestern Australian Legislative Assembly and the British House of Commons.Robert Pilkington was born in
Dublin ,Ireland in 1870. He was educated at Uppingham andPembroke College, Cambridge , attaining aBachelor of Arts before being called to the bar atLincoln's Inn in 1893.In 1894, Pilkington emigrated to
Western Australia . He practiced law initially at York in 1895, and then at Perth. He returned to Ireland in 1899, marrying Ethel Longworth-Dames there on13 December ; they would have one daughter before her death in 1920. After returning to Perth, Pilkington was made aKing's Counsel in 1906, and practiced in partnership withWalter James from 1907.On
22 July 1917 , Pilkington was elected to the Legislative Assembly seat of Perth in aby-election occasioned by the resignation of James Connolly, who had been appointedAgent-General for Western Australia inLondon . He held the seat until the election of12 March 1921 , when he did not contest the seat.Victor Courtney somewhat uncharitably described him as "a tall, austere, aloof English lawyer... quite out of touch with public opinion... He was a dyed-in-the-wool conservative and did not care who knew. I name him as the giver of the most tactless answer to a questioner I have ever heard".Pilkington returned to England later in 1921, and at the 1922 general election he stood unsuccessfully as a Liberal Party candidate for the House of Commons constituency of Dundee. At the 1923 general election he won the seat of Keighley in
West Yorkshire , but did not stand again at the 1924 general election.He died at Wimbledon,
England , on30 June 1942 , and was cremated atPutney Vale Cemetery .References
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NAME=Pilkington, Robert Rivington
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SHORT DESCRIPTION=politician
DATE OF BIRTH=8 February 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH=Dublin ,Ireland
DATE OF DEATH=30 June 1942
PLACE OF DEATH=Wimbledon, London
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