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The Royal Agricultural Society of Western Australia (RASWA) is an agricultural society based in Perth, Western Australia. It was founded in 1831, two years after the establishment of the Swan River Colony.

History
An organisation called the Western Australian Agricultural Society was founded in 1831, just two years after the establishment of the Swan River Colony. In May of that year, James Stirling, the lieutenant-governor, granted the society land in Perth, Fremantle, and Guildford. The land grant was in response to a petition signed by four prominent settlers – John Septimus Roe, Walter Boyd Andrews, William Henry Mackie, and William Lane Milligan.

No. II – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/24846652 No. III – http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/37539883

show held at Toodyay http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/110470621

demise in 1846 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/6595723 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65769789 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/647005 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65771136 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/65770282

revival 1876 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/2975432 http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66303680

RAS history http://www.raswa.org.au/about-the-ras/history.aspx

List of presidents
Presidential terms have begun mid-year since 2007, having previously began at the start of each year.


 * 1864: Samuel Viveash
 * 1865: John Hardey
 * 1866: William Brockman
 * 1867: Alfred Waylen
 * 1868: William Brockman
 * 1869: Samuel Viveash
 * 1870: John Hardey
 * 1871: Thomas Gull
 * 1872: G Johnson
 * 1874–1876: Walter Padbury
 * 1877–1878: Edmund Brockman
 * 1879: William Brockman
 * 1880–1882: Edmund Brockman
 * 1883: Alfred Waylen
 * 1884: Henry Brockman
 * 1885: Walter Padbury
 * 1886–1887: Henry Brockman
 * 1888: Edward Keane
 * 1889: Alexander Richardson
 * 1890: Alfred Waylen
 * 1891: Tim Hooley
 * 1892: William Loton
 * 1893: Josceline Amherst
 * 1894: Alexander Richardson
 * 1895: Alfred Waylen
 * 1896–1897: William Loton
 * 1898–1900: Thomas Hardwick


 * 1901–1902: Henry Saunders
 * 1903–1904: Edward Wittenoom
 * 1905–1906: Thomas Hardwick
 * 1907: A W Edgar
 * 1908: G P Patterson
 * 1909: Thomas Wilding
 * 1910: E Roberts
 * 1911: William Loton
 * 1912: H J Higham
 * 1913: William Padbury
 * 1914: Alexander Gorrie
 * 1915: S F Moore
 * 1916: A Crawford
 * 1917: Edwin Rose
 * 1918: G J Gooch
 * 1919: M T Padbury
 * 1920: R E Weir
 * 1921: M Corbett
 * 1922–1924: James Macfarlane
 * 1925: Ernest Le Souef
 * 1926–1927: M T Padbury
 * 1928–1929: William Loton
 * 1930–1931: T H Wilson
 * 1932–1933: Ernest Loton
 * 1934–1935: Austin Piesse
 * 1936: William Burges
 * 1937–1938: Les Craig
 * 1939–1940: William Burges


 * 1941–1947: Ernest Loton
 * 1948: N R Walmsley
 * 1949–1951: D T Luck
 * 1952–1954: H N Higham
 * 1955–1956: W J Russell
 * 1957–1959: G C Gooch
 * 1960–1962: D J Chipper
 * 1963–1965: W H Robinson
 * 1966–1968: N S Fletcher
 * 1969–1971: Arthur Wilkinson
 * 1972–1974: C R McGlew
 * 1975–1977: M T Beck
 * 1978–1980: Milton Isbister
 * 1981–1983: Tom Wilding
 * 1984–1986: Peter Carter
 * 1987–1989: Jim Webster
 * 1990–1992: J K Horwood
 * 1993–1995: John Wilding
 * 1996–1998: John O'Meehan
 * 1999–2001: Lou Giglia
 * 2002–2004: Don Robertson
 * 2005–2008: Ivan Solomon
 * 2008–2011: Tony Devitt
 * 2011–2014: Hugh Harding
 * 2014–: Rob Wilson