Lionel Boas
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Lionel Boas | |
---|---|
Born | 1875 South Australia |
Died | 1949 |
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Public official |
Parent(s) | Abraham Boas |
Lionel Tobias Boas (1875 – 16 August 1949) was a prominent public official from Western Australia.
Contents
Biography
Early life
Lionel Tobias Boas was born in 1875 in South Australia. His father was Rabbi Abraham Boas (1844–1923).
Career
He moved to Perth, Western Australia in 1896.[1] A decade later, in 1906, he was elected a councillor to the City of Subiaco, serving for thirty-six years and was mayor of Subiaco from 1917 to 1920. With Jack Simons, he helped establish the Young Australia League in 1905 and served as its president until his death in 1949.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Categories:
- Use Australian English from February 2014
- All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English
- Use dmy dates from February 2014
- Pages using infobox person with unknown parameters
- Infobox person using religion
- Articles with hCards
- No local image but image on Wikidata
- 1875 births
- 1949 deaths
- People from South Australia
- People from Perth, Western Australia
- Australian people of Dutch-Jewish descent
- Jewish Australian politicians
- Mayors of places in Western Australia
- Western Australia stubs