Arthur Courthope Gull (1 January 1867 – 30 March 1951) was an Australian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1905 to 1908, representing the seat of Swan.
[1] His father, a prominent merchant and briefly a member of parliament, died when he was ten years old, while two uncles, Andrew and Charles Edward Dempster, were also MPs.
Gull later lived for periods in Perth (working as a bank clerk) and on the Eastern Goldfields, eventually settling on a property in Bellevue (near Guildford).
[1] At the 1901 state election, Gull stood as an independent for the seat of Guildford, but lost to Hector Rason (a future premier).
At the 1905 state election, Gull won the seat of Swan, defeating the sitting Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Mathieson Jacoby.