New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Maitland, a seat he held until his death. He became a friend and colleague of the famous New South Wales parliamentarian Sir Henry Parkes, and a leading light in the temperance movement. "Stephen Scholey, M.L.A.," had a Town Address in Jamison Street, Sydney, and country address in Melbourne Street, East Maitland. He died from a ruptured duodenal ulcer, and was buried in the Wesleyan cemetery at East Maitland on 14 May 1878, the day after his death. An obituary for Stephen Scholey, with an engraving of him, appeared on Saturday 1 June 1878 in The Sydney Mail. References The (British) Colonial Office List for 1874 under New South Wales, p. 94. 1815 births 1878 deaths People from Holbeck Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians