Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1883 – Police Magistrates and Wardens of the Gold Fields


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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:

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1883 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens

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Roles:

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1883 Police Magistrates and Gold Wardens

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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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Police Magistrates (also Wardens of the Gold Fields, Coroners)

BB	Name	Title	Original	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	OP	Comments	Next	FN
V1883	Akehurst, Arthur Purssell	Police Magistrate		R	1878-06-11	1878-06-11	Ongoing	Relieving Magistrates
V1883	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Fitzroy	16
V1883	Call, Frederick	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1883	Carr, Charles Warburton	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Avoca	10
V1883	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1875-01-04	1875-01-04	Ongoing	Beechworth	11
V1883	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	1883-05	Hamilton	9		Retired due to health.
V1883	Hare, Francis Augustus	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1882-03-28	1882-04-01	Ongoing	Dandenong	20
V1883	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Geelong	11
V1883	Howitt, Alfred William	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Sale	18
V1883	Hutchinson, George Losh	Police Magistrate	1883-02-20	R	1883-02-20	1883-02-20	Ongoing	Horsham	12	Smyth.
V1883	Love, Milton Sydney	Police Magistrate	1883-03-01	V	1883-05-22	1883-03-01	Ongoing	Yelta		Richardson (deceased).
V1883	McCormick, George Deihl	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1882-03-28	1882-04-01	Ongoing	Benalla	10
V1883	Nicolson, Charles Hope	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1882-03-28	1882-04-01	Ongoing	Castlemaine	12
V1883	Orme, Francis Knox	Police Magistrate		R	1883-05-09	1883-05-09	Ongoing	Hamilton	9	Hamilton (retired).		[01]
V1883	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1883	Richardson, William Lyle	Police Magistrate	1876-03-06	V	1881-12-12	1881-12-12	1883-01-29	Yelta		PM Wentworth NSW.	Died.
V1883	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Gisborne	13
V1883	Smith, Bernhard William	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Alexandra	6
V1883	Smyth, Frederick Leopold	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1882-03-28	1882-04-01	1883-02-14	Unknown			Crown Prosecutor.
V1883	Taylor, James Grant	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Warrnambool	8
V1883	Thomson, John Campbell	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Ballarat	15
V1883	Webster, Graham	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Sandhurst	8
V1883	Wyatt, Alfred	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Seymour	11
V1883	(Vacant)					1883-01-01	1883-02-19	Horsham
V1883	(Vacant)					1883-01-01	1883-12-31

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	Returned from retirement.

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons employed in the Public Service of Victoria on the 29th February 1884; Second Supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette, No 103, 3 September 1884; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1884; pp 2463-2590.
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1883.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1883; Government Printer, Melbourne, 30 May 1882.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1883 [Revised]; Government Printer, Melbourne, 6 March 1883.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1884; Government Printer, Melbourne, 18 July 1883.
	Additional Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1884; Government Printer, Melbourne, 18 October 1884.

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