Griffin Money

Griffin Money
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia
In office 29 September 1917 – 22 March 1924
Preceded by	William Thomas
Succeeded by	Frederick Withers
Constituency	Bunbury
Personal details
Born	17 June 1865 Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England
Died	1 September 1958 (aged 93) Bunbury, Western Australia, Australia
Political party	Nationalist

Griffin Cant Money (17 June 1865 – 1 September 1958) was an Australian politician who was a Nationalist Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1917 to 1924, representing the seat of Bunbury.

Money was born in Silk Willoughby, Lincolnshire, England, and trained as a solicitor. He moved to Australia in 1898, and initially settled in Perth, where he practised law. In 1910, Money purchased a property of 12,000-acre (49 km²) at Burekup, in the state's South West region. He later acquired farms at Dinninup and Waterloo.^[1] Money first attempted to enter politics at the 1914 state election, but lost to the sitting Labor member for Bunbury, William Thomas. He reversed the result at the 1917 election, and held the seat until being defeated by Labor's Frederick Withers at the 1924 election.^[2] After leaving politics, Money returned to his Burekup property. He died in Bunbury in 1958, aged 93.^[1]

References

1. Griffin Cant Money – Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
2. 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.