Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
William Sawers | |
Constituency Mp: | New England |
Parliament: | Australian |
Predecessor: | New seat |
Successor: | Edmund Lonsdale |
Term Start: | 29 March 1901 |
Term End: | 16 December 1903 |
Birth Date: | 1844 |
Birth Place: | Stirlingshire, Scotland |
Death Place: | Neutral Bay, New South Wales, Australia |
Nationality: | Scottish Australian |
Party: | Protectionist Party |
Occupation: | Grazier |
William Bowie Stewart Campbell Sawers (1844 – 19 May 1916) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Stirlingshire in Scotland, where he was educated, he migrated to Australia in 1865, becoming a grazier with large holdings. In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Bourke, holding the seat until 1886; later, in 1898, he was elected to the seat of Tamworth. In 1901 he resigned from the Legislative Assembly in order to contest the first federal election as the Protectionist candidate for New England; he won narrowly. He was defeated in 1903 by a Free Trade candidate. Sawers died in 1916.[1] [2] [3]