Electoral district of Grenville
Grenville Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
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![]() District of Grenville | |
State | Victoria |
Created | 1859 |
Abolished | 1927 |
Namesake | County of Grenville |
Demographic | Rural |
Grenville was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly[1] in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859[2] to 1927. It was located in western Victoria, south of Ballarat.[2][3]
Members[]
Two members initially,[2] one from 1904.
Member 1 | Term | Member 2 (until 1904) | Term |
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Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 | Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 | ||
Robert Gillespie | Aug 1861 – Mar 1862 | Alfred Arthur O'Connor | Aug 1861 – Aug 1864 |
[b] | Mar 1862 – Dec 1865 | Nov 1864 – Dec 1865 | |
Feb 1866 – Dec 1867 | Sir Francis Murphy | Feb 1866 – Jan 1871 | |
Mar 1868 – Jan 1873 | |||
Apr 1871 – Apr 1877 | |||
[b] | May 1873 – Mar 1874 | ||
Mark Pope[4][5] | May 1874 – Jul 1874 [d] | ||
Richard Henry Lock | Aug 1874 – Apr 1877 | ||
May 1877 – Feb 1880 | David Davies | May 1877 – Jun 1894 | |
May 1880 – Sep 1894 | |||
[6][b] | July 1894 – Apr 1900 | Oct 1894 – Sep 1897 | |
Oct 1897 – Nov 1899 | |||
[b] | June 1900 – Aug 1902 | [b] | Dec 1899 – May 1904 |
Austin Austin | Oct 1902 – May 1904 | ||
Charles McGrath | Jun 1904 – Apr 1913 | ||
John Chatham[b] | May 1913 – Oct 1917 | ||
David Gibson | Nov 1917 – Aug 1921 | ||
Arthur Hughes | Aug 1921 – Mar 1927 |
Grenville was preceded by the "Electoral district of Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville" and "Electoral district of North Grenville" which were both original districts of the first Legislative Assembly of 1856[7] and was abolished in 1859.[1]
The Electoral district of Warrenheip and Grenville was created in 1927 after Grenville was abolished.[1]
Arthur Hughes, the last member for Grenville, represented Electoral district of Hampden from April 1927.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b c d "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ a b c "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). Australasian Legal Information Institute. 1858. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ "Electoral Districts of South Grant, North Grant, North Grenville, Ripon, Hampden, South Grenville and Polworth, Villiers and Heytesbury, Normanby, Dundas and Follett" (map). 1856. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
- ^ "The New Assembly". The Australasian Sketcher. Trove. 16 May 1874. Retrieved 9 March 2014.
- ^ Victorian Hansard, Session 1874 (PDF). Vol. 18. John Ferres, Melb. 1874.
- ^ "The Grenville Election". The Argus. Trove. 16 July 1894.
- ^ Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
Coordinates: 37°50′S 143°40′E / 37.833°S 143.667°E
Categories:
- Former electoral districts of Victoria (Australia)
- 1859 establishments in Australia
- 1927 disestablishments in Australia