Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1852 – Police Magistrates

Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1852 – Police Magistrates


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Port Phillip District (1836-1851) Colony of Victoria (1851-1900) Victoria (1901-1929)

Years:		1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
		1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900

Bodies:

1852 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Commission Crown Lands

Roles:

1852 Police Magistrates

Explanations:

Columns:	R [Role]; D is whether the role is Resident [R] or Visiting [V].
	PM (Police Magistrate), GC (Gold Commissioner 1851-1855), GW (Gold Warden 1855-1929), CCL (Commissioner of Crown Lands), and CP (Chinese Protector) show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time.

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number in the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Police Magistrates

BB	Name	Title	Original	R	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	PM	GF	CL	CP	S1	S2	Comments	Next	FN
V1852	Blair, James	Police Magistrate			R	1851-07-15	1851-07-01	1852-12-31	Portland										[01]
V1852	Bunbury, Richard Hanmer	Police Magistrate (Acting)			R	TBD	TBD	1852-01-31	Williamstown								Harbour Master.	Resigned.
V1852	Dana, Henry Edmund Pulteney	Police Magistrate (Acting)			R		1852-01-01	1852-01-31	Mount Alexander								Commandant, Native Police
V1852	Eyre, Alfred John	Police Magistrate (Acting)			R	1851-12-20	1852-01-01	1852-12-31	Buninyong								Mair.
V1852	Ferguson, Charles	Police Magistrate (Acting)			R	1852-02-17	1852-02-17	1852-09-30	Williamstown								Bunbury. Harbour Master.
V1852	Foster, Henry	Police Magistrate			R	TBD	1852-11-04	1852-12-31	Castleton								R P Stewart.	Ballarat.	[02]
V1852	Fyans, Foster	Police Magistrate	1849-08-01		R	1851-07-15	1851-07-01	1852-12-31	Geelong									Resigned.	[03]
V1852	Harper, George Mitchell	Police Magistrate			R	1852-10-30	1852-10-29	1852-12-31	May Day Hills									Wangaratta.
V1852	Lapham, Samuel	Police Magistrate			R	1852-06-11	1852-06-01	1852-12-31	Mount Macedon								Shadforth.	Warrnambool.
V1852	Lavender, William	Police Magistrate			R	1852-03-16	1852-03-16	1852-12-31	Swan Hill									Kyneton.
V1852	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Police Magistrate			R	1851-09-02	1851-09-20	1852-12-31	Alberton
V1852	Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman	Police Magistrate (inc Water)			R	1852-10-07	1852-10-01	1852-12-31	Williamstown								Ferguson.
V1852	Plunkett, Christopher George	Police Magistrate			R	1851-07-15	1851-07-01	1852-12-31	Kilmore										[04]
V1852	Shadforth, Robert William	Police Magistrate			R	1852-01-16	1852-01-16	1852-05-10	Mount Macedon									Castlemaine.	[05]
V1852	Shadforth, Robert William	Police Magistrate			R	1852-05-11	1852-05-11	1852-12-31	Castlemaine
V1852	Stewart, George	Police Magistrate			R	1851-09-16	1851-09-20	1852-12-31	Belfast
V1852	Stewart, Robert Petty	Police Magistrate			R	1852-05-11	1852-05-06	1852-11-04	Castleton									Lexton.	[06]
V1852	Stewart, Robert Petty	Police Magistrate			R	1852-10-26	1852-11-01	1852-12-31	Lexton									Resigned.

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	BB1852 has new from date 1836-02-01.
02⇑	Also listed as GC until the end of 1852, but it is uncertain whether he fulfilled both roles. If so, he was probably paid as a PM.
03⇑	BB1852 has new from date 1837.
04⇑	BB1852 has new from date 1851-02-25.
05⇑	Gazette notice has Kyneton.
06⇑	Gazette notice has Bendigo.

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1852; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1853 (Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 943, P0000-0002) [BB1852].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1852.

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2022-03-30	Page and content created.