Alfred Youl

Alfred Youl (23 August 1849 – 3 February 1921) was an Australian politician.

[1] His family moved to Surrey in England in 1854, and he was educated at St Aubin's School in Jersey and Uppingham School in Leicestershire.

He married Margaret Mansell in 1875, after which they returned to Tasmania and acquired the notable Leighlands property, near Perth.

Youl thereafter became a grazier and prominent community figure, serving as a member (1884–1898) and five-time Warden of the Evandale Municipal Council, member (1898–1916) and Warden of the Longford Municipal Council, a member of the Perth Road Trust for over three decades, including a stint as trust chairman, chairman of the Longford Court of Petty Sessions, a justice of the peace, special magistrate for old age pensions and a member of the licensing bench and local board of health.

Margaret Youl died in 1888, and he married Annette Francis Wigan in 1891.