Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1869 – Police Magistrates


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

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1869 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens

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Roles:

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1869 Police Magistrates

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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 existing Police Magistrates were re-appointed (as both Justices of the Peace and Police Magistrates) on 29 December 1868 (published in the Victoria Government Gazette on 5 January 1869). The Gazette list is somewhat misleading as Bull (not listed) and Fetherstonhaugh (listed) had been required to retire at the end of December 1868. Both were subsequently appointed Justices of the Peace in March 1869. Fetherstonhaugh had already been replaced by Hamilton as Police Magistrate at the town of Hamilton in January 1869. Pasco was transferred to Smythesdale to succeed Hamilton. Bonsey had been in England on leave and Strutt had been filling in for him at Geelong. Bonsey chose not to return from England and retired from the Public Service in February 1869, though there is some suggestion in the contemporary media that he had heard that he was to have been dismissed.

Panton was transferred to Geelong in February and Strutt replaced Panton in Heidelberg. This changed again in March when Panton was transferred to Melbourne and replaced at Geelong by Dowling. Clissold (not listed) resigned in early December 1868. Gaunt, listed at Sandhurst, had already been assigned to Ballarat to replace Clissold. Sherard (listed) was summarily dismissed in January 1869.

Police Magistrates

BB	Name	Title	Original	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next	FN
V1869	Akehurst, Arthur Purssell	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Kilmore	PM.
V1869	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Woods Point	PM.
V1869	Bonsey, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-02	Geelong	PM. On leave (12 months).	Retired whilst in England.
V1869	Brownrigg, Marcus Freeman	Police Magistrate		V	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Belvoir	PM Albury NSW. PM.
V1869	Butler, Walter	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Beechworth	PM.
V1869	Call, Frederick	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Melbourne	PM.
V1869	Carr, Charles Warburton	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Avoca	PM.
V1869	Clow, James Maxwell	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Steiglitz	PM.
V1869	Cogdon, John Montague	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Maldon	PM.
V1869	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Talbot	PM.
V1869	Daly, James	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Ararat	PM.
V1869	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-03	Creswick	PM.	Geelong.
V1869	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Police Magistrate		R	1869-03	1869-03	Ongoing	Geelong	Panton.
V1869	Farrand, William	Police Magistrate	1869-11-22	V	1869-11-22	1869-11-22	Ongoing	Cowana	PM Wentworth NSW.
V1869	Fetherstonhaugh, Cuthbert	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1868-12-31	Hamilton	PM.	Retired.	[01]
V1869	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Sale	PM.
V1869	Gaunt, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R			Ongoing	Ballarat	Clissold.
V1869	Gaunt, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Sandhurst	PM.	Ballarat.
V1869	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-01	Smythesdale	PM.	Hamilton.	[02]
V1869	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Police Magistrate		R	1869-01	1869-01	Ongoing	Hamilton	Fetherstonhaugh.
V1869	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Taradale	PM.
V1869	Howitt, Alfred William	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	PM.
V1869	Lane, Henry Bowyer Joseph	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Belfast	PM.
V1869	Langford, George	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Echuca	PM. Strutt.
V1869	McLachlan, Lachlan	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Sandhurst	PM.
V1869	Mollison, Crawford	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Williamstown	PM.
V1869	Orme, Francis Knox	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Dunolly	PM.
V1869	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-02	Heidelberg	PM.	Geelong.
V1869	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Police Magistrate		R	1869-02	1869-02	1869-03	Geelong	Bonsey.	Melbourne.
V1869	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Police Magistrate		R	1869-03	1869-03	Ongoing	Melbourne	Sturt (on leave).
V1869	Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-01	Maryborough	PM.	Smythesdale.
V1869	Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman	Police Magistrate		R	1869-01	1869-01	Ongoing	Smythesdale	Hamilton.
V1869	Piper, William	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869	Benalla	PM.	Retired.
V1869	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Rutherglen	PM.
V1869	Puckle, Frederick Hale	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Mortlake	PM.
V1869	Russell, Frederick Browne	Police Magistrate	1867-04-01	V	1867-04-01	1867-04-01	1869-05-31	Cowana	PM Wentworth NSW.	Queanbeyan NSW.
V1869	Shadforth, Robert William	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Heathcote	PM.
V1869	Sherard, Charles Wale	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-01-11	Ballarat	PM.	Dismissed
V1869	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Blackwood	PM.
V1869	Smith, Bernhard William	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Stawell	PM.
V1869	Strutt, Charles Edward	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-02	Geelong	PM.	Heidelberg.
V1869	Strutt, Charles Edward	Police Magistrate		R	1869-02	1869-02	Ongoing	Heidelberg	Panton.
V1869	Sturt, Evelyn Pitfield Shirley	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	1869-03	Melbourne	PM.
V1869	Sturt, Evelyn Pitfield Shirley	Police Magistrate		R	1869-03	1869-03	Ongoing	Melbourne	On leave.
V1869	Taylor, James Grant	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Daylesford	PM.
V1869	Templeton, William	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Brighton	PM.
V1869	Thomson, John Campbell	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Kyneton	PM.
V1869	Webster, Graham	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Beaufort	PM.
V1869	Willoby, William Allan	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Palmerston	PM.
V1869	Wills, Alfred Currie	Police Magistrate		R	1868-12-29	1868-12-29	Ongoing	Morse's Creek	PM.

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	I have included Fetherstonhaugh here for completeness as he was in the 1868-12-29 list.
02⇑	Listed as re-appointed as PM Smythesdale, but had already been assigned to Hamilton to replace Fetherstonhaugh.

Sources

	Magistrates for the Colony of Victoria; Victoria Government Gazette, No 1, 5 January 1869; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1869; p 1.
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1869.

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