Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1855 – Gold Commissioners


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

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		1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900

Bodies:

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1855 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Commission Crown Lands Gold Wardens Chinese Protectorate

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Roles:

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1855 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 Gold Commissioners’ Department was abolished on 30 June 1855 and replaced with the Gold Department.

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

BB	Name	Title	D	From	To	Assignment	Next
V1855	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Commissioner	R	1854-05-01	1855-06-30	Avoca	Gold Department.
V1855	Anderson, William Acland Douglass	Assistant Chief Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1855-04-30	Castlemaine	Redundant.
V1855	Bernal, Augustus Woodley	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-11	1855-01-31	Ballarat	Resigned.
V1855	Brackenbury, Walter Charles	Commissioner	R	1853-04-01	1855-06-30	Castlemaine	Redundant.
V1855	Bull, John Edward Newell	Resident Commissioner	R	1852-10-09	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Bury, Frederick John	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30	Kilmore	Gold Department.
V1855	Butt, John William Sinclair	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-01	1855-06-30		Dismissed.
V1855	Cogdon, John Montague	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1855-06-29		Redundant.
V1855	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Commissioner	R	1853-04-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Daly, James	Assistant Commissioner	R	1853-11-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Doveton, Francis Crossman	Commissioner	R	1853-01-01	1855-06-30	Ballarat	Gold Department.
V1855	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Commissioner	R	1854-05-18	1855-06-30	Avoca	Redundant.
V1855	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-07-01	1855-06-30	Castlemaine	Redundant.
V1855	Fenwick, William	Commissioner	R	1853-01-01	1855-06-30	Kilmore	Gold Department.
V1855	Foster, William Henry	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-07-07	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department. CP.
V1855	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Jacomb Hood, John Kemp	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-03-18		Resigned.
V1855	Johnston, James	Assistant Commissioner	R	1853-11-24	1855-03-07	Ballarat	Resigned.
V1855	Jones, Francis	Commissioner	R	1853-01-01	1855-06-30	Avoca	Gold Department.
V1855	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30	Castlemaine	Gold Department.
V1855	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Commissioner	R	1854-05-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Middleton, Herbert Taylor	Assistant Commissioner	R	1853-05-01	1855-03-26	Kilmore	Resigned.
V1855	Mollison, Crawford	Assistant Commissioner	R	1853-06-07	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Morphy, John Stephen	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Murray, Virginius	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Resident Commissioner	R	1854-01-01	1855-06-30	Ballarat	Gold Department.
V1855	Rede, Robert William	Resident Commissioner	R	1853-05-25	1855-06-30	Avoca	CCL.
V1855	Sherard, Charles Wale	Resident Commissioner	R	1854-11-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Shuter, Charles	Commissioner	R	1854-02-01	1855-06-30		Gold Department.
V1855	Smith, Alexander John	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30	Castlemaine	Gold Department.
V1855	Smith, Alexander John	Resident Commissioner (Acting)	R	1855-01-01	1855-06-30	Kilmore	Gold Department.
V1855	Smith, Bernhard William	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-05-17	1855-06-30		Gold Department. GR.
V1855	Standish, Frederick Charles	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-04-21	1855-04-30		CP.
V1855	Taylor, James Grant	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-10-06	1855-06-30		Gold Department. CP.
V1855	Templeton, William	Commissioner	R	1853-07-01	1855-06-30	Ballarat	Gold Department.
V1855	Thompson, George Agar	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-09	1855-06-30	Avoca	Redundant.
V1855	Turner, William	Resident Commissioner	R	1853-02-24	1855-06-30	Maryborough	Gold Department.
V1855	Webster, Graham	Assistant Commissioner	R	1854-02-04	1855-02-21	Inglewood	Resigned.
V1855	Willoby, William Allan	Commissioner	R	1853-04-01	1855-06-30	Maryborough	Gold Department.
V1855	Wright, William Henry	Chief Commissioner	R	1852-05-01	1855-06-30	Maryborough	Gold Department.

References

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1855; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1856 (Public Record Office Victoria VPRS 943, P0000-0005) [BB1855].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1855.

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