William Charles Lea

LEA, WILLIAM CHARLES. farmer; b. 22 March 1833 in Tryon, son of John Lea and Hannah Maxfield; m. first 23 November 1858 Rebecca E. Reid, and they had three children, Herbert, John J. and Artemas; m. secondly 30 December 1865 Annie Murphy, and they had six children, Richard L., Mary R. Henry A. (Harry), Eliza B., Walter Maxfield*, and William L.; Methodist; d. March 1911. Lea, a Liberal, was first elected to the House of Assembly in 1872 for 1st Queens. He was re-elected in the general election of 1876 for 4th Prince. Lea lived in Tryon for a number of years, but, in 1866 and later, he resided in Victoria where he owned some agricultural land known as Riverside Farm. William Lea died March 1911. Rebecca Lea, the daughter of William Reid and Sophia Rozander, was born in 1835 and died 2 April 1863 when Herbert, John, and Artemas were very young. Annie Lea, the daughter of Edward Murphy of Cape Clear Lighthouse, Wexford, Ireland, was born in 1842 and died in 1924. William Lea's son Walter Maxfield Lea* was premier from 1930 to 1931, and again from 1935 to 1936.