Blue Book, Victoria, Australia, 1903 – Police Magistrates and Wardens of the Gold Fields

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
V1903	Anderson, William Ross	Police Magistrate	1893-10-30	R	1893-10-30	1893-10-30	1903	Castlemaine	16		Left during 1903.
V1903	Beaven, James William Waight	Police Magistrate	1903-02-06	R	1903-02-06	1903-02-06	Ongoing	Wangaratta	11	Burrowes.
V1903	Burrowes, Robert James	Police Magistrate	1898-08-15	R	1898-08-15	1898-08-15	1903-02	Wangaratta	11		Stawell.
V1903	Burrowes, Robert James	Police Magistrate	1898-08-15	R	1903-02	1903-02	Ongoing	Stawell	12	G R Murphy.
V1903	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Police Magistrate	1902-02-20	R	1902-02-20	1902-02-20	1903	Box Hill		Also County Coroner.	Caulfield.
V1903	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Coroner	1902-02-20	R	1902-02-20	1902-02-20	Ongoing	County Coroner		Also Box Hill.
V1903	Cole, Robert Hodgson	Police Magistrate	1902-02-20	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Caulfield	4	Also County Coroner.
V1903	Cresswell, Charles Alfred Costley	Police Magistrate	1893-04-24	R	1893-07-03	1893-07-03	Ongoing	Sale	17
V1903	Dickson, William	Police Magistrate	1899-02-06	R	1902	1902	Ongoing	Ballarat	13
V1903	Dwyer, Patrick Joseph	Police Magistrate	1892-07-25	R	1902-08	1902-08	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1903	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	R	1902-02-05	1902-02-05	1903	Melbourne			Castlemaine.
V1903	Goldsmith, Samuel Joseph	Police Magistrate	1902-02-05	R	1903	1903	Ongoing	Castlemaine	16	W R Anderson (resigned).
V1903	Greene, William Wentworth	Police Magistrate	1890-04-29	R	1895	1895	Ongoing	Inglewood	13
V1903	Holmes, Charles George	Police Magistrate	1891-05-19	R	1891-09-21	1891-09-21	Ongoing	Bairnsdale	8
V1903	Johns, Reynell Eveleigh	Police Magistrate	1888-09-19	R	1902	1902	1903-02	Hamilton	13		Left during 1903.
V1903	Keogh, John	Police Magistrate	1889-09-23	R	1894	1894	Ongoing	Suburban
V1903	Leader, William	Police Magistrate	1891-10-24	R	1897	1897	Ongoing	Maryborough	12
V1903	McCormick, George Deihl	Police Magistrate	1882-04-01	R	1888-08	1888-08	Ongoing	Warrnambool	7
V1903	Moore, Edmund Notley	Police Magistrate	1902-08-08	R	1902-08-08	1902-08-08	Ongoing	Bendigo	9
V1903	Morrison, Harold	Police Magistrate	1897-10-04	R	1897-10-04	1897-10-04	Ongoing	Kilmore	15
V1903	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1901-07-16	1901-07-16	1903-02	Stawell	13		Hamilton.
V1903	Murphy, George Read	Police Magistrate	1901-07-16	R	1903-02	1903-02	Ongoing	Hamilton	13	Johns (resigned).
V1903	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Senior Police Magistrate		R	1890	1890	Ongoing	Metropolitan
V1903	Patterson, George William Frederick	Police Magistrate	1888-08-27	R	1892-07	1892-07	Ongoing	Geelong	10
V1903	Rowan, Joseph	Police Magistrate		R	1893	1893	Ongoing	Beechworth	10
V1903	Smallman, Thomas	Police Magistrate	1890-05-06	R	1895-10	1895-10	Ongoing	Malvern	21
V1903	(Vacant)					1903-01-01	1903-12-31	Benalla	10
V1903	(Vacant)					1903-01-01	1903-12-31	Dandenong
V1903	(Vacant)					1903-01-01	1903-12-31	Relieving Magistrates
V1903	(Vacant)					1903-01-01	1903-12-31	Seymour
V1903	(Vacant)					1903-01-01	1903-12-31	St Arnaud

References

Sources

	Comparisons to the previous year.
	Return of Persons employed in the Public Service of Victoria on the 31st December 1903; Fourth Supplement to the Victoria Government Gazette, No 15, 30 January 1904; Government Printer, Melbourne, 1904; p 353 (49).
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1903.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1903; Government Printer, Melbourne, 18 December 1902.
	Estimates of the Revenue and Expenditure for the Year Ending 30th June, 1904; Government Printer, Melbourne, 6 October 1903.
	Supplementary Estimates, 1903-1904; Government Printer, Melbourne, 11 August 1904.

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