Death of Mr F W Teesdale
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| Description: | Newspaper article about the death of Frederick Teesdale, in the West Australian newspaper. |
Citation: DEATH OF MR. F. W. TEESDALE (1931, December 15). The West Australian (Perth, WA : 1879 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved November 25, 2025, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article32392893
This article is probably the one mentioned in Joy Clifton to H A Hall, 15 December 1931.
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DEATH OF MR. F. W. TEESDALE
A Man Admired by Both Parties.
One of the most picturesque and lovable members of the State Parliament was removed yesterday by the death of Mr. F W. Teesdale, M.L.A.. who had represented Roebourne for the past fourteen years. He had been in failing health, with a tubercular complaint, for the past two years, and became seriously ill last week. He died yesterday afternoon at his home, Tareena-street, Hollywood. He was 67 years of age.
The late Mr. Frederick William Teesdale was born and educated in England and came to Australia when a young man. After a period spent in South Australia and Victoria he came to the North-West of this State in the early eighties, and engaged in prospecting and pearling. In 1889 he opened a cash store at Roebourne and conducted it successfully for several years before selling out to Dalgety and Co. One picturesque phase of his career was when, with others, he took an all Australian troop of riders to England advertising Australia widely by doing so. In later years he was associated with Mr. G. J. Lambert as a director of W.A. Man- ganese, Ltd., and the Union Plaster Co. He was elected to the tenth Parliament as Nationalist member for Roebourne in the Legislative Assembly on October 18, 1917, and held his seat until the time of his death. His downright manner of speaking, his straightforwardness, his abomination of cant, and his kindly dis- position made him popular with both sides of the Chamber. On the few occasions on which he was able to attend the House daring the past session he was greeted with something approaching affection by his old colleagues and many were the expressions of regret and the snatches of reminiscence among those who knew him well when his death became known yesterday. Messages of regret and sympathy were received in Perth from the Roebourne and Onslow road boards.
The late Mr. Teesdale married a widow, Mrs. Hall, at Roebourne. He had no children of his own and his wife pre-deceased him about two years ago. A sister, Mrs. E. Wain, of Adelaide, is at present in Perth.
The funeral will be held in the Anglican portion of the Karrakatta cemetery at 4 o'clock this afternoon.
