Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1854 – Gold Commissioners


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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:

1853

1854 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Commission Crown Lands

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Roles:

1853

1854 Gold Commissioners

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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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Comments

The Senior and Junior roles were re-designated again to Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner. In practice, however, the men were usually just referred to as “Commissioner.”

Gold Commissioners (Commissioners of Crown Lands for the Gold Fields)

BB	Name	Title	D	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next	FN
V1854	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-04-30			GC.
V1854	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Commissioner	R	1854-05-01	Ongoing
V1854	Anderson, William Acland Douglass	Assistant Chief Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Barnard, Edward Thomas	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-05-01			PM.
V1854	Barry, St Leger	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-05-31			Resigned.
V1854	Bernal, Augustus Woodley	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-11	Ongoing
V1854	Brackenbury, Walter Charles	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing			Suspended 1854-11-30.
V1854	Bull, John Edward Newell	Resident Commissioner	R	1852-10-09	Ongoing	Castlemaine
V1854	Bury, Frederick John	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Bush, John	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-03-20	1854-09-08		De Salis.	Resigned,
V1854	Butt, John William Sinclair	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-01	Ongoing		Shuter.
V1854	Clow, James Maxwell	Resident Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1854-05-25	Ballarat		CCL.
V1854	Cockburn, Owsley Rowley	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-04-04			Resigned.
V1854	Cogdon, John Montague	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Cope, William Henry	Gold Receiver	R	1851-12-23	Ongoing
V1854	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Daly, James	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	De Salis, John Henry	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-03-01			Suspended, then dismissed.
V1854	Doveton, Francis Crossman	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-05-17			GC.
V1854	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Commissioner	R	1854-05-18	Ongoing		Rede.
V1854	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-07-01	Ongoing		Barry.
V1854	Fenwick, William	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Foster, William Henry	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-07-07	Ongoing		Dowling.
V1854	Green, John	Gold Receiver	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Hackett, Charles Prendergast	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-25	1854-04-30			PM.
V1854	Hall, Charles Browning	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-01-31			Resigned.
V1854	Hall, Melmoth	Gold Receiver	R	1854-08-16	Ongoing
V1854	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Horne, Richard Henry "Hengist"	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-09-30			Dismissed.
V1854	Jacomb Hood, John Kemp	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Johnston, James	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Jones, Francis	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-04-30			GC.
V1854	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Commissioner	R	1854-05-01	Ongoing
V1854	Middleton, Herbert Taylor	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Mollison, Crawford	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing			Suspended 1843-12-13.
V1854	Morphy, John Stephen	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Murray, Virginius	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Muspratt, Thomas	Gold Receiver	R	1854-01-01	1854-11-06			Barrack Master 1854-10-25.
V1854	Naylor, Thomas Beagley	Gold Receiver	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Resident Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1854	Price, Henry	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-01-17			PM.
V1854	Pridham, Charles Algernon	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-05-20	1854-11-21		Hackett.	Resigned.
V1854	Puckle, Frederick Hale	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-07-31			CCL.
V1854	Rede, Robert William	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-05-25			Resident GC.	[01]
V1854	Rede, Robert William	Resident Commissioner	R	1854-05-25	Ongoing	Ballarat	Clow.
V1854	Reynell, Alfred	Commissioner	R	1852-06-01	1854-01-31		by South Australia.	Victorian Government.
V1854	Reynell, Alfred	Commissioner	R	1854-02-01	1854-11-24			GR.
V1854	Reynell, Alfred	Gold Receiver	R	1854-11-25	Ongoing		Muspratt.
V1854	Sherard, Charles Wale	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-10-31			Resident GC.
V1854	Sherard, Charles Wale	Resident Commissioner	R	1854-11-01	Ongoing	Maryborough
V1854	Shuter, Charles	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1854-01-31			GC.
V1854	Shuter, Charles	Commissioner	R	1854-02-01	Ongoing		Hall.
V1854	Smith, Alexander John	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Smith, Bernhard William	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-05-17	Ongoing		Barnard.
V1854	Standish, Frederick Charles	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-04-21	Ongoing		Cockburn.
V1854	Symonds, Edward Stace	Finance Officer	R	1853-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Taylor, James Grant	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-10-06	Ongoing		Bush.
V1854	Templeton, William	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Thompson, George Agar	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-09	Ongoing
V1854	Turner, William	Resident Commissioner	R	1853-02-24	Ongoing	Beechworth
V1854	Webster, Graham	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-04	Ongoing		Henry Price.
V1854	Wilkinson, John	Gold Receiver	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Willoby, William Allan	Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	Ongoing
V1854	Wright, William Henry	Chief Commissioner	R	1852-05-01	Ongoing

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	BB1854 incorrectly has 1853 for the promotion.

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1854; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1855 (Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 943, P0000-0004) [BB1854].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1854.

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