Henry Stevens (Australian politician)


Henry Moreton Stevens was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.

Biography

Stevens was born at South Brisbane, Queensland, the son of Samuel Stevens, and his wife Jane. Samuel Stevens was a cooper and an active member of the South Brisbane community, who stood for a seat as Alderman in the council elections of 1866. Henry was educated at the Brisbane National School and was a director of the Lanefield Co-Operative Dairy Co. and also the Queensland Farmers' Co-Operative District Co..
On 27 October 1880 he married Helen Hunt Mossop at Goodna and together had one son and one daughter. Helen died in 1904 and Stevens then married Jessie Mabel Webster on 26 April 1911. He died in November 1935 and his funeral proceeded from the Rosewood Congregational Church to the Tallegalla Cemetery.

Public life

Stevens, the Ministerialist candidate, won the by-election in 1911 for the seat of Rosewood in the Queensland Legislative Assembly, replacing Denis Keogh, who had died in August of that year. He held the seat until the 1918 state election, when he lost to William Cooper of the Labor Party.