Six hungry families was a phrase used in the 1880s and 1890s to describe six of the most prominent and powerful families in colonial Western Australia, with extensive influence in judicial, political, mercantile and social circles. It was first used by John Horgan during his unsuccessful 1886 campaign for election to the Western Australian Legislative Council.[1][2]
Horgan used the phrase to imply that the families were hungry for more wealth, power, influence and land, and that this was at the expense of the working class.[3][4] He was later successfully sued for libel by George Walpole Leake, a member of one of the "six hungry families", and fined £500.[5]
Roughly speaking, the "six hungry families" were:
the Leake family;
the Stone family;
the Lee Steere family;
the Shenton family;
the Lefroy family;
the Burt family.
However, there was extensive intermarriage between these and other influential families, and a person could be a member of one or more of these families without possessing any of the six surnames. Essentially, the term six hungry families referred to a single nebulous class of colonists, rather than six distinct families.
Prominent members of the "six hungry families" included:
Leake family:
George Walpole Leake
George Leake
Sir Luke Leake
Stone family:
Alfred Hawes Stone
Sir Edward Albert Stone
Frank Mends Stone
George Frederick Stone
Patrick Stone
Lee Steere family:
Sir James George Lee Steere
Sir Ernest Augustus Lee Steere
Shenton family:
Arthur Shenton
Edward Shenton
Ernest Shenton
George Shenton Sr
Sir George Shenton
William Kernott Shenton
Lefroy family
Sir Anthony O'Grady Lefroy
Sir Edward Lefroy
Gerald de Courcy Lefroy
Henry Lefroy
Burt family
Sir Archibald Burt
Sir Francis Burt
Septimus Burt
Octavius Burt
^"Mr. Horgan at the Canning". The West Australian. Perth. 9 June 1886. p. 3. Retrieved 24 July 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Mr. Horgan at the Canning". Western Mail. Perth. 12 June 1886. p. 43. Retrieved 24 July 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
^"Mr. Horgan before the electors of Perth". The West Australian. Perth. 19 May 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 24 July 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
^"The Perth election". The West Australian. Perth. 29 May 1888. p. 3. Retrieved 24 July 2011 – via National Library of Australia.
^
"Horgan, John (1834–1907)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
and 23 Related for: Six hungry families information
Hungry ghost is a term in Buddhism, and Chinese traditional religion, representing beings who are driven by intense emotional needs in an animalistic way...
and the History of Western Australia. Members of the family were included in the "sixhungryfamilies" who inter-married and sustained a significant political...
prominent member of the sixhungryfamilies. James Steere was born on 4 July 1830 in Ockley, Surrey, England. He was the third of six sons of Lee Steere of...
sub-division. Lee Steere was descended from one of the prominent so-called sixhungryfamilies of Perth, which included his uncle, Sir James George Lee Steere (1830-1903)...
earned the reputation of being the location of some of John Horgan's sixhungryfamilies. By the late twentieth century, there were only a couple of houses...
Preta (Sanskrit: प्रेत, Standard Tibetan: ཡི་དྭགས་ yi dags), also known as hungry ghost, is the Sanskrit name for a type of supernatural being described in...
Bertinelli would star opposite Demi Lovato in NBC's single-camera comedy pilot, Hungry. In December 2021, she signed a new deal with Food Network. In January 2022...
in the role of Adam on the fourth season of Freeform's comedy Young and Hungry, and was cast in the role of Detective Billy Malone on the fifth season...
smaller mob families outside New York, including ties with the Philadelphia, Patriarca, and Buffalo crime families. The current "family" was founded...
co-judge Bobby Flay. In October 2017, she began co-hosting Southern and Hungry with Rutledge Wood (her brother-in-law) on Cooking Channel. Damaris frequently...
Young & Hungry (2014–2018) for which she received three Teen Choice Award nominations, and Roxy Doyle on the Fox television series Almost Family (2019–2020)...
Getting Coffee. He published his memoir Stay Hungry on February 27, 2018. A Netflix special also titled Stay Hungry was released on January 15, 2019. In 2017...
this once underrated staple. White fonio, Digitaria exilis, also called "hungry rice" by Europeans, is the most common of a diverse group of wild and domesticated...
Hungry Gene. The discovery of leptin also is documented in a series of books including Fat: Fighting the Obesity Epidemic by Robert Pool, The Hungry Gene...
000 New Yorkers, with land-hungry New Englanders poised to migrate west. "Oneidas alone, who were only 600 strong, owned six million acres, or about 2...
The sentient beings in this domain are known as "hungry ghosts". They are constantly extremely hungry and thirsty, but they cannot satisfy these needs...
Andy Silvester and drummer Mac Poole to form a short-lived band called Hungry Fighter. This group played only one gig, at the University of Surrey in...
2001, after a delayed revival from suspended animation, the family has settled in over a six-month period and made the planet their home, but a severe winter...
while? Grab a Snickers!" The tag line at the end of each ad proclaimed, "Hungry? Why Wait?" Later ads have used the tagline “Rookie mistake? Maybe you just...
The Hungry Saw is the seventh studio album by British alternative band Tindersticks, released on 28 April 2008 by Beggars Banquet Records. Following the...
unemployment benefits due to the COVID-19 pandemic to dogs that must be kept hungry in order to elicit obedience. He later apologized, and it was revealed that...
Global Information