Loton was a wealthy merchant with large land holdings in the north-west of the State, he was a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council 1889–1890; 1898–1900; 1902–1908, the Mayor of Perth from 1901 to 1903 and knighted in 1923.
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The river is named after William Locke Brockman who was a pastoralist in the region with large land holdings and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.
On 5 November 1992, a petition was tabled in the Western Australian Legislative Council by John Halden MLC containing an allegation that the state Opposition Leader, Richard Court, had improperly provided confidential information to a party in a divorce case.
The son of George Randell, who was a member of the Legislative Council, and Mary Louise Smith (his father's second wife), Randell was born in Perth, where he was raised.
His brother was Sir Edward Charles (Horne) Wittenoom, a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for thirty four years.
In the upper house, the party won five seats with the members being Mia Davies, Philip Gardiner and Max Trenorden (Agricultural Region), Colin Holt (South West Region) and Wendy Duncan (Mining and Pastoral Region).
Two Western Australian state upper house MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry and Frank Hough, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the Western Australian state election in 2005.
James Gordon Hislop (1895–1972), Australian physician and politician, sat for Metropolitan Province in Western Australian Legislative Council