# Arthur Gull

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**Arthur Courthope Gull** (1 January 1867 – 30 March 1951) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the [Legislative Assembly](/source/Western_Australian_Legislative_Assembly) of [Western Australia](/source/Western_Australia) from 1905 to 1908, representing the [seat of Swan](/source/Electoral_district_of_Swan). He ran for parliament on five occasions, but was only elected once.

Gull was born in [Guildford, Western Australia](/source/Guildford,_Western_Australia), to Annie (née Dempster) and [Thomas Courthope Gull](/source/Thomas_Gull).[1] His father, a prominent merchant and briefly a member of parliament, died when he was ten years old, while two uncles, [Andrew](/source/Andrew_Dempster) and [Charles Edward Dempster](/source/Charles_Dempster), were also MPs.[2] Gull initially attended the [High School](/source/Hale_School) in [Perth](/source/Perth), but was later sent to [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) to board at [Hawthorn Grammar School](/source/Hawthorn_Grammar_School) (run by [Martin Howy Irving](/source/Martin_Howy_Irving)). On his return to Western Australia, he went to the [North-West](/source/North-West_Australia), spending two years as a [jackaroo](/source/Jackaroo_(trainee)). Gull later lived for periods in Perth (working as a bank clerk) and on the Eastern Goldfields, eventually settling on a property in [Bellevue](/source/Bellevue,_Western_Australia) (near Guildford).[1]

At the [1901 state election](/source/1901_Western_Australian_state_election), Gull stood as an [independent](/source/Independent_politician) for the [seat of Guildford](/source/Electoral_district_of_Guildford), but lost to [Hector Rason](/source/Hector_Rason) (a future [premier](/source/Premier_of_Western_Australia)). He also stood against Rason at the [1902 Guildford by-election](/source/1902_Guildford_state_by-election) (a [ministerial by-election](/source/Ministerial_by-election)), but was again defeated. At the [1905 state election](/source/1905_Western_Australian_state_election), Gull won the seat of Swan, defeating the sitting [Speaker of the Legislative Assembly](/source/Speaker_of_the_Western_Australian_Legislative_Assembly), [Mathieson Jacoby](/source/Mathieson_Jacoby). His time in parliament was short-lived, however, as Jacoby won Swan back at the [1908 election](/source/1908_Western_Australian_state_election).[3] In 1909, Gull moved to a property in [Serpentine](/source/Serpentine,_Western_Australia).[1] He contested the [seat of Canning](/source/Electoral_district_of_Canning) at the [1914 election](/source/1914_Western_Australian_state_election), but was defeated by [Robert Robinson](/source/Robert_Thomson_Robinson).[3] Gull eventually retired to Perth, dying there in March 1951 (aged 84).[1]

## References

1. [Arthur Courthope Gull](http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/Library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/LookupName/EB0DC731871A775A482577E50028A61F?opendocument) – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

1. [Thomas Courthope Gull](http://www.parliament.wa.gov.au/parliament/library/MPHistoricalData.nsf/(Lookup)/25ADED22694215A148257E5E0014F14B?OpenDocument) – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 25 June 2016.

1. Black, David & Prescott, Valerie (1997). *Election statistics : Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, 1890-1996*. Perth, [W.A.]: Western Australian Parliamentary History Project and Western Australian Electoral Commission. ISBN 0730984095.

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