Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1890 – Police Magistrates and Wardens of the Gold Fields


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:

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1890 Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens

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Roles:

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1890 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
V1890	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	1890	Fitzroy	16		Left during 1890.
V1890	Bartrop, George Frederick	Police Magistrate	1887-11-14	R	1887-11-14	1887-11-14	1890-04	Inglewood	8		Malvern.
V1890	Bartrop, George Frederick	Police Magistrate	1887-11-14	R	1890-04	1890-04	Ongoing	Malvern	17
V1890	Bell, Edward Connor	Police Magistrate	1889-03-01	R	1889-05-29	1889-05-29	1890-04	Hamilton	13		Sale.
V1890	Bell, Edward Connor	Police Magistrate	1889-03-01	R	1890-04	1890-04	Ongoing	Sale	16	D B Daly (resigned).
V1890	Call, Frederick	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	1890	Melbourne			Left during 1890.
V1890	Cooper, John Sisson	Police Magistrate	1886-05-25	R	1887-11-06	1887-11-06	1887-11-06	Bairnsdale	5
V1890	Daly, Denis Bowes	Police Magistrate	1889-05-21	R	1889-09-23	1889-09-23	1890-04	Sale	16		Left during 1890.
V1890	Dobbin, Charles Leonard	Police Magistrate	1888-08-11	R	1888-08-11	1888-08-11	1890	Benalla	10		Wangaratta.
V1890	Dobbin, Charles Leonard	Police Magistrate	1888-08-11	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Wangaratta	10
V1890	Drury, Joseph	Police Magistrate	1889-03-19	R	1889-03-19	1889-03-19	1890-04-28	Beechworth	11	Died 1890-04-28.
V1890	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate		R	1889-03	1889-03	Ongoing	Relieving Magistrates
V1890	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1890-04-29	R	1890-04-29	1890-04-29	1890-08-03	Inglewood	10	Bartrop.
V1890	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1890-08-04	1890-08-04	Ongoing	Inglewood	10
V1890	Hare, Francis Augustus	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1882-03-28	1882-04-01	Ongoing	Dandenong	21
V1890	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Geelong	12
V1890	Johns, Reynell Eveleigh	Police Magistrate	1888-09-19	R	1889-09	1889-09	1890-04	Seymour	9		Hamilton.
V1890	Johns, Reynell Eveleigh	Police Magistrate	1888-09-19	R	1890-04	1890-04	Ongoing	Hamilton	13	E C Bell.
V1890	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1889-09-23	R	1889-09-23	1889-09-23	1890-03-23	Alexandra	8		Kilmore.	[01]
V1890	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1890-03-24	1890-03-24	Ongoing	Kilmore	8
V1890	McCormick, George Deihl	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1888-08	1888-08	Ongoing	Warrnambool	6
V1890	McLuckie, James	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1890-06-04	R	1890-06-04	1890-06-04	1890-08-03	Stawell	16	Hutchinson (resigned).
V1890	McLuckie, James	Police Magistrate	1890-06-04	R	1890-08-04	1890-08-04	Ongoing	Stawell	16
V1890	Nicolson, Charles Hope	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1889-02	1889-02	1890	Blackwood			Melbourne.
V1890	Nicolson, Charles Hope	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Melbourne		Shuter.
V1890	Orme, Francis Knox	Police Magistrate		R	1889	1889	Ongoing	Maryborough	11
V1890	O'Meara, John Joseph	Police Magistrate	1885-11-02	R	1887	1887	1890	Castlemaine	12		Kew.
V1890	O'Meara, John Joseph	Police Magistrate	1885-11-02	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Kew	16
V1890	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	1890	Melbourne			Senior PM.
V1890	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Melbourne		Call (retired).
V1890	Patterson, George William Frederick	Police Magistrate	1888-08-27	R	1889-09	1889-09	Ongoing	Sandhurst	7
V1890	Robertson, James	Police Magistrate	1889-06-24	R	1889-06-24	1889-06-24	1890	Horsham	15		Castlemaine.
V1890	Robertson, James	Police Magistrate	1889-06-24	R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Castlemaine	13	O'Meara.
V1890	Rodgerson, William Cooper	Police Magistrate	1889-06-01	V	1889-07-29	1889-10-01	1890-06-30	Mildura		PM Wentworth NSW.	Discontinued.	[02]
V1890	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1890-03-11	R	1890-03-11	1890-03-11	1890-05-12
V1890	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate	1890-03-11	R	1890-05-13	1890-05-13	Ongoing	Beechworth	12	Joseph Drury (deceased).
V1890	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate		R	1889	1889	1890	Melbourne
V1890	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Melbourne		Panton.
V1890	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate (Acting)	1890-05-06	R	1890-05-06	1890-05-06	1890-08-03	Seymour	10	Johns.
V1890	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1890-08-04	1890-08-04	Ongoing	Seymour	10
V1890	Thomson, John Campbell	Police Magistrate		R	1878-04-15	1878-04-15	Ongoing	Ballarat	16
V1890	(Vacant)					1890-01-01	1890-03-23	Kilmore
V1890	(Vacant)					1890-01-01	1890-12-31	St Arnaud
V1890	(Vacant)					1890-01-01	1890-06-03	Stawell
V1890	(Vacant)					1890-03-24	1890-12-31	Alexandra

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	The transfer to Kilmore may not have been at the same time as being made a permanent PM.
02⇑	Allowance for Yelta continued in Treasury estimates to 1890-06-30.

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Office of the Government Statist; Statistical Register of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1890 Part 1: Blue Book; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1891 (VPARL 1891, No 28) [BB1890].
	Return of Persons employed in the Public Service of Victoria on the 31st December 1890; Supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette, No 11, 31 January 1891; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1891; pp 570-571 (44-45).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1890.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1890; Government Printer, Melbourne, 30 July 1889.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1891; Government Printer, Melbourne, 31 July 1890.
	Additional Estimates of Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1891; Government Printer, Melbourne, 11 December 1890.
	Supplementary Estimates, 1890-91; Government Printer, Melbourne, 24 June 1891.

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