Richard Sholl

Captain Richard Adolphus Sholl, J.P., (18 December 1847 – 9 May 1919) was a Postmaster-General in Western Australia.^[1]

Sholl was the son of Robert John Sholl and Mary Ann (née Berckelman)^[1] his wife, and was born in Bunbury, Western Australia. He entered the Civil Service of Western Australia as a probation clerk in the Post Office in 1863, and became Chief Clerk of the department in 1873; Chief Clerk and Accountant of the Treasury in 1879; Chief Clerk of the Post Office in 1881; and Postmaster-General in 1889.^[2] He became lieutenant in the Metropolitan Rifles in 1875, captain in 1883, and captain commandant in 1888. He was appointed a Justice of the Peace of the colony in 1891. Captain Sholl married Mary Howard, daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Sanders, late 30th Regiment^[2] on 7 January 1887; having earlier married Eline Florence Ashton (died 1877) on 19 September 1872 by who he had a daughter and two sons.^[1]

Sholl was deputy postmaster-general in Western Australia from 1901, when the Commonwealth of Australia took over posts and telegraphs, and retired in 1904. Sholl was also director of the Perth Building Society^[1] and for many years honorary secretary of the West Australian Turf Club.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Bolton, G. C. "Sholl, Richard Adolphus (1847–1919)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
^ ^a ^b Mennell, Philip (1892). "Sholl, Captain Richard Adolphus" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. p. 415 – via Wikisource.
^ "Richard Adolphus Sholl". History of West Australia. 1897.

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