Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1853 – Crown Lands

Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1853 – Commissioners of Crown Lands


Contents:		Blue Book People Organisations Places Roles Research Notes Reference

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:

1853 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Commission Crown Lands

Roles:

1853 Commissioners

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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Commissioners of Crown Lands

BB	Name	Title	Original	R	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	PM	GF	CL	CP	S1	S2	Comments	Next	FN
V1853	Addis, Edward Brown	(District) Commissioner	1840-12-29		R		1851-07-01	TBD	Grant County									Resigned.
V1853	Bell, Edward	(District) Commissioner			R		1853-01-01	Ongoing	Wimmera District
V1853	Bonsey, William Henry	(District) Commissioner			R		1853-09-13	Ongoing	Grant County								Addis.
V1853	Fenwick, Nicholas Alexander	(District) Commissioner	1851-07-01		R		1853-01-01	Ongoing	Bourke County
V1853	Gray, William Nairn	(District) Commissioner			R		1853-01-01	Ongoing	Portland Bay District
V1853	Piper, William	(District) Commissioner			R	1853-05-26	1853-05-26	Ongoing	Murray District								H W H Smythe.
V1853	Powlett, Frederick Armand	(District) Commissioner	1840-06-01		R		1851-07-01	1853-08-16	Western Port District								Colonial Treasurer to 1853-07-21.	Chief Commissioner	[01]
V1853	Powlett, Frederick Armand	Chief Commissioner	1840-06-01		R		1853-08-17	Ongoing	Headquarters
V1853	Smythe, Henry Wilson Hutchinson	(District) Commissioner			R		1851-07-01	1853-02-28	Murray District
V1853	Smythe, Henry Wilson Hutchinson	(District) Commissioner			R		1853-03-01	1853-05-15	Murray District								On leave (12 months).	Died before leaving for England.	[02]
V1853	Thomson, John Campbell	(District) Commissioner			R	1853-02-07	1853-02-07	Ongoing	Western Port District								Powlett.
V1853	Tyers, Charles James	(District) Commissioner			R		1853-01-01	Ongoing	Gipps Land District

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	BB has him still Chief Commissioner in 1853. Including Gold Fields from 1851-10-02.
02⇑	According to BB1853, Smythe had begun a leave of absence as GC and CCL at the beginning of March to return to England, but was appointed PM of Benalla for the month of March at full pay. He died on 15 May before leaving the colony.

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1853; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1854 (Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 943, P0000-0003) [BB1853].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1853.

Updates

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