Anthony Loton Explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
Anthony Loton
Office:President of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia
Term Start:17 June 1954
Term End:6 August 1958
Predecessor:Sir Harold Seddon
Successor:Sir Charles Latham
Office2:Member of the Legislative Council
of Western Australia
Constituency2:South-East Province
Term Start2:18 November 1944
Term End2:21 May 1950
Predecessor2:Harold Piesse
Successor2:George Bennetts
Constituency3:South Province
Term Start3:21 May 1950
Term End3:21 May 1965
Predecessor3:George Bennetts
Successor3:Edward House
Birth Name:Anthony Lloyd Loton
Birth Date:13 February 1904
Birth Place:Upper Swan, Western Australia
Death Place:Kalamunda, Western Australia
Party:Country

Anthony Lloyd Loton (13 February 1904 – 14 May 1998) was an Australian politician who served as a Country Party member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1944 to 1965. He was President of the Legislative Council from 1954 to 1958.

Loton was born in Upper Swan, Western Australia, to Annie Campbell (Forrest) and Ernest William Loton. His mother was a niece of Sir John Forrest, the first Premier of Western Australia, and his paternal grandfather, Sir William Loton, was a Mayor of Perth. Loton was educated in Perth, attending Christ Church Grammar School and Hale School. After leaving school, he initially farmed on his father's farm at Upper Swan, but later took over a property in Popanyinning (a small Wheatbelt locality). Prominent in agricultural circles, Loton was elected to parliament at a 1944 by-election for the Legislative Council's South-East Province, which had been caused by the death of Harold Piesse. After the 1947 state election, he was made deputy chairman of committees. In May 1954, the President of the Legislative Council, Sir Harold Seddon, lost his seat, and Loton was elected in his place. The first holder of the office from the Country Party, he served in the position for just over four years, leaving office in August 1958. Loton retired from parliament at the 1965 state election.[1]

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