Charles Alexander John Piesse
Colonial Secretary
of Western Australia
In office
October 1850  March 1851
Preceded byThomas Yule (acting)
Succeeded byThomas Yule (acting)
Personal details
Born(1812-09-11)11 September 1812
Died6 March 1851(1851-03-06) (aged 38)

Charles Alexander John Piesse (11 September 1812 – 6 March 1851) was an English civil servant who served briefly as the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. He was an older brother of George William Septimus Piesse.[1]

In 1840 Piesse was appointed Secretary to the Central Loan Fund Board of Ireland, and the following year published a book about the loan fund system.[2] He held this position until appointed Colonial Secretary of Western Australia in 1850. He arrived at Fremantle in October 1850 and died in office several months later, on 6 March 1851.[3]

References

  1. Watson, Marcia. "Stories and People: Charles Alexander John Piesse". East Perth Cemeteries. National Trust of Australia (WA) and Friends of the Battye Library (inc.). Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  2. Piesse, Charles (1841). Sketch of the Loan Fund System in Ireland, and Instructions for the Formation of a New Society; with the Loan Fund Acts, and an Index Thereto. Dublin: Alexander Thom. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  3. "Local Intelligence". The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News. Vol. 4, no. 171. Western Australia. 14 March 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 27 November 2021 via National Library of Australia.
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