Joseph Robinson (Australian politician)

Joseph Phelps Robinson (c.1815 – 13 August 1848) was a banker and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.[1][2]

Colonial Australia

Robinson was a Quaker and arrived aboard the Cornubia in Sydney in June 1842. Benjamin Boyd was a partner, and together they set up an office at Church Hill. Robinson's banking business brought him to the Port Phillip District in 1843[2] and in March 1844,[3] he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Town of Melbourne. Robinson held the seat until 20 June 1848.[1]

Robinson was the seconder of John Dunmore Lang's motion in the New South Wales Legislative Council that the Port Phillip District be separated from New South Wales.[1][4]

Robinson died at his residence, Neutral Bay, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales, of scarlet fever on 13 August 1848.[2][5]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Mr Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815-1848)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Robinson, Joseph Phelps (1815–1848)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
  3. ^ "Legislative Council". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 March 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 24 August 2014 – via Trove.
  4. ^ Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). "Early History of the Colony of Victoria". Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. ^ "Death of Mr. Robinson". The Australian. Sydney. 17 August 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 24 August 2014 – via Trove.

 

New South Wales Legislative Council
Preceded by Member for Town of Melbourne
March 1844 – 20 June 1848 		Succeeded byas Member for City of Melbourne


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