Electoral district of Sandhurst

Sandhurst
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria, 1859
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished1904
DemographicUrbanised Rural
Coordinates36°45′S 144°16′E / 36.750°S 144.267°E / -36.750; 144.267

Sandhurst (initially Sandhurst Boroughs)[1][2] was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly[3][4] in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904.[3] It was based on the towns of Sandhurst[5] (now Bendigo) and Lockwood.[6]

The district was defined as:

SANDHURST — Commencing at a point on the Bendigo Creek 40 chains south of the junction of Ash-street and High-street; thence east one mile and a half; thence north four miles; thence west two and a half miles, crossing the Bendigo Creek, thence south four miles, thence east to the point of commencement.

LOCKWOOD — Commencing at the south-western angle of suburban allotment 23, section 1; bounded on the east by a line northward from that point to the southeastern angle of portion 44, section 4; on the north by a line bearing west to the south-western angle of allotment No. 1, section 4, on the west by a line bearing south to a point due west from the commencing point; and on the south by a line east to the south-west angle of suburban allotment No. 23, section 1, being the commencing point.

aforesaid.[4]

From 1904, Sandhurst was split into two districts, Bendigo West and Bendigo East.[3]

The district of Sandhurst Boroughs was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[1]

Members for Sandhurst

One member 1856[1] to 1859,[3] two from 1859.[3][7]

Sandhurst Boroughs (1856–1859, 1 member)
Member Term
James Macpherson Grant Nov 1856 – Aug 1859
Sandhurst (1859–1877, 2 members)
Member 1 Term Member 2 Term
John Henderson Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 Robert Frederick Howard Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
James Joseph Casey Aug 1861 – Mar 1862  William Denovan Aug 1861 – Jul 1862
Robert Frederick Howard Mar 1862 – Dec 1865 Robert Strickland Nov 1862 – Aug 1864
Robert Burrowes Feb 1866 – Apr 1877 John Halfey Nov 1864 – Dec 1867
Angus Mackay Mar 1868 – Apr 1877
Sandhurst (1877–1889, 3 members)[8] (1889–1904, 2 members)[9]
Member 1 Term Member 2 Term Member 3 Term
Robert Clark May 1877 – Apr 1883 Sir John McIntyre May 1877 – Jun 1880 W. G. Blackham[10] May 1877 – Jul 1877[11]
Angus Mackay Jul   1877 – Feb 1880
Angus Mackay Jul   1883 – Feb 1886 Robert Burrowes May 1880 – Sep 1893 Sir John Quick Jul   1880 – Mar 1889
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes[12][13][14][15]   Mar 1886 – Sep 1894
Walter Hamilton Oct 1894 – Oct 1900[16] Daniel Barnet Lazarus[16] Oct 1893 – Sep 1897
Daniel Barnet Lazarus Nov 1900 – Sep 1902 Alfred Shrapnell Bailes* Oct 1897 – May 1904
Walter Hamilton Oct 1902 – May 1904

      * Bailes was later member for Bendigo East (1904 to 1907).[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. ^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  4. ^ a b "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Sandhurst" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Lockwood" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  7. ^ "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  8. ^ "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  9. ^ "The General Election". Portland Guardian. Trove. 21 September 1894. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  10. ^ "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. Trove. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  11. ^ Blackham's election was invalid, he was disqualified because he was insolvent. He wasn't sworn-in. "Blackham Resigns". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 7 July 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  12. ^ Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1880s (State Library Victoria).
  13. ^ Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1878; Lerk, L., "Both Mayor and Minstrel", Bendigo Weekly, 7 August 2015.
  14. ^ Parliament of Victoria: Remember Database: Alfred Shrapnell Bailes.
  15. ^ Deaths: Bailes, The Age, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.1; Personal, The Argus, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.16.
  16. ^ a b "The New Assembly". Gippsland Times. 5 November 1900.