Peter Wells (politician)

Peter Henry Wells (22 October 1937 – 25 December 2005) was an Australian politician.

He was born in St Arnaud in Victoria to railway employee Harry Stevens Wells and Alice Rebecca Eileen Blackman Lingwood.

In 1955 he became a minister and welfare worker with the Salvation Army in Western Australia, and in 1960 became a draftsman and sampler with Central Norseman Gold Mines.

He also worked as a part-time lecturer in cartography at mining schools in Norseman and Kalgoorlie.

In 1980 he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for North Metropolitan Province.