Bayswater City

Distinguished and Famous people from Bayswater City

Bayswater's environmental work has brought professional recognition to people improving its waterways. These connections come through sustained work for the city, rather than claims that the recipients were born locally.

🌿 Jeremy Maher

Jeremy Maher received Western Australia's Water Professional of the Year award in 2019 while working as the City of Bayswater's sustainability and environment manager. By then he had devoted sixteen years to improving the Bayswater Brook catchment. His team's projects included rehabilitation of the Eric Singleton Bird Sanctuary, living streams and a small wetland in Morley. The recognition concerned practical changes to local water systems, undertaken with council support and partner organisations.

🌿 Rebecca Ferguson

Rebecca Ferguson received the 2019 WA Young Water Professional of the Year award for work that included wetland rehabilitation and living-stream projects in Bayswater. As a catchment management officer, she worked with colleagues, local schools, residents and partner organisations. The award citation highlighted both her technical contribution and community engagement. Her association with the city is professional work on the waterways and the people involved in caring for them.

🏫 Roy Peterkin

Roy Peterkin was born at Maylands in 1906 and attended its primary school before training as a teacher. His later career centred on Anglican children’s institutions at Middle Swan and elsewhere. He introduced schooling and recreation programmes and a cottage system, and encouraged education beyond farm work and domestic service. His administration also participated in the postwar migration of unaccompanied British children, a significant part of the institutions’ history. He later wrote The Noisy Mansions, a history of Swanleigh. Maylands is his birthplace and first school community; the institutions he administered belonged to other locations and should remain distinct in the account.