Frank Mends Stone

Frank Mends Stone (19 April 1857 – 10 September 1942) was an Australian lawyer and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1894 to 1906, representing North Province.

The Honourable Frank Stone
Member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia
In office 16 July 1894 – 4 June 1906
Preceded by	None (new seat)
Succeeded by	Francis Connor
Constituency	North Province
Personal details
Born	19 April 1857 Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Died	10 September 1942 (aged 85) Quairading, Western Australia, Australia

Stone was born in Perth to Charlotte Maria (née Whitfield) and George Frederick Stone. His father was Attorney-General of Western Australia on two occasions, while an older brother, Sir Edward Albert Stone, was the fourth Chief Justice of Western Australia. Like his relatives, Stone entered the legal profession. He was an associate to Sir Archibald Burt (the chief justice) from 1876 to 1878, and was called to the bar in 1882. Stone entered parliament at the 1894 Legislative Council elections, when he was elected to a six-year term in North Province. He was re-elected in 1900, and retired at the end of that term, in June 1906.[1] Stone eventually retired to the country, dying in Quairading in September 1942, aged 85.[2] He had married Anne Elizabeth Lapsley in 1880, with whom he had three children. He later had another four children with a de facto wife, Dorothy Eileen Meagher.[1]

References

1. Frank Mends Stone – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 June 2016.
2. "LATE MR. F. STONE.", The West Australian, 11 September 1942.