William Proctor

William Consett Proctor (1850 – 23 November 1905) was an English-born Australian solicitor and politician. Early life He was born in Leicester to police constable John Proctor and Ellen Whelan. The family migrated to New South Wales around 1852. Proctor became a solicitor and settled at Armidale. On 30 November 1878 he married Kathleen Roberts, with whom he had two children, one of whom was the artist Thea Proctor. Proctor and Kathleen divorced in 1897, and he remarried Julia Cusack on 24 August 1903; they had four children. Political career He was elected an alderman in the Municipality of Armidale in February 1876, elected mayor in February 1877, an office he held until February 1880. In 1880, after finishing his term as mayor, Proctor left Armidale to practice as a solicitor in Sydney. At the election on 2 December  1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as one of two members for New England. He was re-elected at the 1882 and 1885 elections.