Stephen Scholey

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Stephen Scholey was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. He was born January 22, 1815, in Garden street, Holbeck village, near Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, and died May 13, 1878, at East Maitland, New South Wales.

Contents 1 Family 2 In Leeds 3 New South Wales 4 References

[edit] Family

The son of John Scholey (1774 - 1834) a landed proprietor, by his spouse Mary née Gray (1778-1856), Stephen, with his brother and sister, inherited a Leeds estate from their father which included a major part of the township of Holbeck, now a suburb of Leeds, (see Will at the Borthwick Institute,York, Ref:IR26/1401/PFF3467).

[edit] In Leeds

Stephen Scholey was first apprenticed as a butcher, as was his brother, John. Stephen was listed in White's History, Gazetter & Directory of the West Riding of Yorkshire (p.599) for 1837 as resident at 25 Templars Street, with a butcher's shop at 2 Cheapside, Leeds. The 1853 edition gives his residence as 27 Trafalgar Street, Leeds.

[edit] New South Wales

By 1855 he was in East Maitland, New South Wales, where he had established himself as a livestock agent, and gradually diversified his business and political interests. He was elected Alderman & Mayor for the East Maitland Municipality on April 25, 1862, and on May 2, 1867, he was commissioned by the Colonial Office, with a Letters Patent from the colony's governor to that effect, to be Warden and President of the newly created Maitland District Council.

On February 24, 1872, he was elected the Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Maitland, a seat he held until his death. "Stephen Scholey, M.L.A.," had a Town Address in Jamison Street, Sydney. He was a friend and collegue of the famous New South Wales parliamentarian Sir Henry Parkes, and a leading light in the temperance movement. Mentions and letters of Stephen Scholey can be found in Politics in New South Wales 1856-1900, (edited by Brian Dickey, Cassell, Australia).

He died from a ruptured ulcer, and was buried in the Weslyan cemetery at East Maitland on May 14, 1878, the day after his death.

An obituary for Stephen Scholey, with an engraving of him, appeared on Saturday June 1, 1878 in The Sydney Mail.

He married Ann (1809-1888) daughter of William Spink, a Yeoman of Wintringham, East Riding of Yorkshire, by his spouse Mary Topham. They had two children: John Scholey (1840-1908), and Mary Ann (1847-1896) who married Daniel Cotterill.

[edit] References

• The New South Wales Legislative Assembly - Alphabetical roll, p.195.
• The Colonial Office List for 1874 under New South Wales, p.94.
• Sands' Sydney & Suburban Directory for 1873, pps:3 & 477.
• The Official Post Office Country Directory & Gazetteer of New South Wales for 1878-79, gives "Stephen Scholey, Melbourne Street, East Maitland" on page 338.