NEW SOUTH WALES ==================================================================== LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ==================================================================== ELECTION OF MEMBERS TO REPRESENT THE PORT PHILLIP DISTRICT ==================================================================== ELECTION OF JUNE 1843 ==================================================================== DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP (5 members) ==================================================================== Nominations 13 June, polling 20 June 1843 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles H EBDEN 228 19.7 Dr John D LANG 166 14.3 Sir Thomas L Mitchell 157 13.6 Dr Charles NICHOLSON 206 17.8 Dr Alexander THOMSON 184 15.9 Thomas WALKER 217 18.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,158 votes cast -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Mitchell, see 1844 by-election, below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Hotson Ebden (1811-67): Elected 1843 Born: 1811, Cape of Good Hope Career: Educated England. Migrated to NSW 1832. Overland to Port Phillip 1837. Squatter at Karlsruhe. City landowner. Resigned April 1844. Later career: See 1848 by-election, below -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Dunmore Lang (1799-1878): Elected 1843 Born: 25 August 1799, Renfrewshire Career: Educated Glasgow University (DD). Presbyterian minister. To NSW 1823. Founder Scots Church Sydney. Journalist, republican and nationalist agitator. Seat declared vacant through non-attendance November 1847 Later career: NSW MLC 1850-56, MLA 1856-69. Died 8 August 1878 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Nicholson (1808-1903): Elected 1843 Born: 23 November 1808, Cumberland Career: Educated Edinburgh University. Medical doctor. To Sydney 1834. Landowner. One of the founders of Sydney University. Term expired June 1848 Later career: NSW MLC 1848-56. Qld MLC 1859-63. Chancellor Sydney University. Knighted 1852. Died 8 November 1903 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Thomson (1800-66): Elected 1843 Career: Educated Aberdeen and London. Medical practitioner. Surgeon on convict ships. Settled Hobart 1831, to Port Phillip 1837. Geelong Council, first mayor 1850. Resigned March 1844 Later career: See Victorian Legislative Assembly 1856, Geelong by- election. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Walker (1804-86): Elected 1843 Born: 3 May 1804, Midlothian Career: To Sydney about 1820. Merchant, Sydney. Resigned September 1845 Later career: Businessman and philanthropist Died 2 September 1886 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TOWN OF MELBOURNE (1 member) ==================================================================== Nominations 15 June, polling 17 June 1843 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry CONDELL 295 53.1 Edward Curr 261 46.9 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 556 -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Curr, see 1845 by-election, below. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Henry Condell (1797-1871): Elected 1843 Born: 9 September 1797, Madeira (of Scottish parents) Career: Educated Scotland. To VDL 1822, to Port Phillip 1839. Brewer. First Mayor of Melbourne 1842 Resigned February 1844 Died 26 September 1871 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BY-ELECTIONS 1844-48 ==================================================================== TOWN OF MELBOURNE ==================================================================== Nominations 12 March 1844 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Henry Condell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph P ROBINSON Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815-48): Elected 1844 by Born: About 1815, Britain Career: To NSW 1842, to Port Phillip 1843. Banker. Term expired June 1848 Died 13 August 1848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP (2 to be elected) ==================================================================== Nominations 16 April, polling 23 April 1844 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignations of Charles Ebden and Alexander Thomson -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sir Thomas L MITCHELL 195 46.1 Maurice O'Connell 94 22.2 Adolphus W YOUNG 134 31.7 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 423 votes cast -------------------------------------------------------------------- For O'Connell, see 1845 by-election below -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Livingston Mitchell (1792-1855): Elected 1844 by Born: 15 June 1792, Stirlingshire Career: Army officer and surveyor. Surveyor-General of NSW 1828-55. Explorer of eastern Australia. Knighted 1834. Resigned August 1844 Died 5 October 1855 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adolphus William Young (1814-85): Elected 1844 by Born: 1814, Berkshire Career: Solicitor. To NSW. High Sheriff of NSW 1842-49. Resigned July 1845 Later career: British MP 1857-59, 1865-66, 1868-80. Died 4 November 1885 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 10 September 1844 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Sir Thomas Mitchell -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin BOYD Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Benjamin Boyd (1803-51): Elected 1844 by Born: 21 August 1803, Wigtownshire Career: Stockbroker, London. To Port Phillip 1842. Squatter and investor. Resigned September 1845 Died 15 October 1851 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP (2 to be elected) ==================================================================== Nominations 7 August 1845 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignations of Thomas Walker and Adolphus Young -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas E BOYD Unopposed Maurice C O'CONNELL Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Thomas Elder Boyd (1802-60): Elected 1845 by Born: 1802, Perthshire Career: Banker, Melbourne. Resigned December 1845 Died 12 October 1860 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Maurice Charles O'Connell (1812-79): Elected 1845 by Born: 13 January 1812, Sydney (Grandson of William Bligh) Career: Educated Edinburgh. Army officer. Term expired June 1848 Later career: Qld Commissioner for Crown Lands 1848. Qld MLC 1860- 79, minister. Knighted 1871. Died 23 March 1879 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 19 September, polling 26 September 1845 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Benjamin Boyd -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Niel Black Edward CURR -------------------------------------------------------------------- For Black, see Victorian Legislative Council 1859, Western Province. He was nominated without his consent. If a poll was held, no figures were published. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Curr (1798-1850): Elected 1845 by Born: 1 July 1798, Sheffield Career: To VDL 1820. Pastoralist. VDL MLC 1825-26. To Port Phillip 1842. Leading agitator for separation of Port Phillip from NSW. Resigned June 1846 Later career: See 1848 election, below -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 16 January 1846 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Thomas E Boyd -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward J BREWSTER Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward James Brewster (1812-98): Elected 1846 by Born: About 1812, Dublin Career: Educated Trinity College Dublin. Barrister. To Port Phillip 1835. Founding member Port Phillip bar. Resigned February 1848 Died 17 March 1898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 22 June 1846 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Edward Curr -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John F L FOSTER Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Fitzgerald Leslie Foster (1818-1900): Elected 1846 by Born: 19 August 1818, Dublin Career: Educated Trinity College Dublin. To Port Phillip 1841. Pastoralist. Cousin of William Stawell MLA. Term expired June 1848 Later career: See 1849 by-election, below -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 15 December 1847 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the declaration that Dr John D Lang's seat was vacant -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- John M C AIREY Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- John Moore Cole Airey (? -1893): Elected 1847 by Born: Date and place of birth unknown Career: Naval officer. To Port Phillip 1842. Pastoralist, Gippsland. Aireys Inlet named for him. Term expired June 1848 Died 17 July 1893 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP ==================================================================== Nominations 8 March 1848 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the resignation of Edward J Brewster -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles H EBDEN Unopposed -------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Hotson Ebden (1811-67): Elected 1843. Resigned 1844. Elected 1848 by Term expired June 1848 Later career: See 1850 byelection, below --------------------------------------------------------------------