Charles Alexander John Piesse
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Charles Alexander John Piesse (11 September 1812 – 6 March 1851) was an English civil servant who served briefly as the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. He was an older brother of George William Septimus Piesse.[1]
In 1840 Piesse was appointed Secretary to the Central Loan Fund Board of Ireland, and the following year published a book about the loan fund system.[2] He held this position until appointed Colonial Secretary of Western Australia in 1850. He arrived at Fremantle in October 1850 and died in office several months later, on 6 March 1851.[3]
References
- ^ Watson, Marcia. "Stories and People: Charles Alexander John Piesse". East Perth Cemeteries. National Trust of Australia (WA) and Friends of the Battye Library (inc.). Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ Piesse, Charles (1841). Sketch of the Loan Fund System in Ireland, and Instructions for the Formation of a New Society; with the Loan Fund Acts, and an Index Thereto. Dublin: Alexander Thom. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "Local Intelligence". The Perth Gazette And Independent Journal Of Politics And News. Vol. 4, , no. 171. Western Australia. 14 March 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 27 November 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
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