Crown Lands Non-District Assignments – Commissioners of Crown Lands


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Places:

Towns Counties Crown Lands Districts Mining Districts

Districts:

Headquarters Gipps Land Murray Port Phillip Portland Bay Western Port Wimmera Non-District Counties: Bourke Grant Normanby

Bodies:

Non-District: Crown Lands

Roles:

Commissioners

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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Commissioners of Crown Lands

BB	Name	Title	Original	D	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next	FN
V1851	Blair, James	(District) Commissioner	TBD	R	TBD	TBD	TBD	Portland			[01]
V1857	Lavender, William	Assistant Commissioner		R		TBD	TBD	Kyneton
V1857	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Assistant Commissioner		R		TBD	TBD	Kilmore
V1857	Sherard, Charles Wale	Assistant Commissioner		R		TBD	TBD	Ballarat
V1858	Bull, John Edward Newell	(District) Commissioner		R		TBD	TBD	Castlemaine
V1858	Sherard, Charles Wale	(District) Commissioner		R		TBD	TBD	Ballarat
V1859	Blair, James	(District) Commissioner		R				Portland
V1859	Blair, James	(District) Commissioner		R		1859-04-06		Portland	On leave.
V1859	Manning, Edward	(District) Commissioner		R		1859-04-06		Portland	Blair.
V1861		.		R
V1862	Bonsey, William Henry	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Geelong
V1862	Brownrigg, Marcus Freeman	Commissioner		V		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Belvoir	PM Albury NSW.
V1862	Butler, Walter	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Landsborough
V1862	Clissold, Stephen Thomas	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Ballarat
V1862	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Wahgunyah
V1862	Foster, William Henry	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Omeo
V1862	Hackett, Charles Prendergast	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1862	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Fryerstown
V1862	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Maldon
V1862	McLachlan, Lachlan	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1862	Puckle, Frederick Hale	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Buckland		???
V1862	Robertson, Alexander Philadelphia Lamb	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Queenscliff	Health Officer.
V1862	Shadforth, Robert William	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Wangaratta
V1862	Sturt, Evelyn Pitfield Shirley	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1862	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	TBD	Redbank
V1862	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Avoca
V1862	Barnard, Edward Thomas	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Beechworth
V1862	Blair, James	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Portland
V1862	Bull, John Edward Newell	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Castlemaine
V1862	Call, Frederick	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Maryborough
V1862	Carey, John Le Marchant	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Sale
V1862	Carr, Charles Warburton	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Anderson's Creek
V1862	Clow, James Maxwell	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Steiglitz
V1862	Cogdon, John Montague	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Jamieson's
V1862	Crawford, William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	1862-11-09	Williamstown		Died.
V1862	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Amherst
V1862	Daly, James	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Hepburn (Daylesford)
V1862	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Creswick
V1862	Fetherstonhaugh, Cuthbert	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Hamilton
V1862	Gaunt, William Henry	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Chiltern
V1862	Gilles, Lewis William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Warrnambool
V1862	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Smythe's Creek
V1862	Harrison, George	Commissioner		R		1862-06-30	Ongoing	Castlemaine
V1862	Lane, Henry Bowyer Joseph	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Yackandandah
V1862	Lavender, William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Kyneton
V1862	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Inglewood
V1862	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Kilmore
V1862	Mollison, Crawford	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1862	Orme, Francis Knox	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing
V1862	Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Swan Hill
V1862	Piper, William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Benalla
V1862	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Raglan
V1862	Powlett, Frederick Armand	Commissioner	1840-06-01	R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	1862-09-01	Buckland
V1862	Rede, Robert William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Geelong	Sheriff.
V1862	Scott, Robert Dunbar	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing		District Surveyor.
V1862	Sherard, Charles Wale	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Ballarat
V1862	Shuter, Charles	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Blackwood
V1862	Smith, Bernhard William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Pleasant Creek
V1862	Stewart, George	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Belfast
V1862	Strutt, Charles Edward	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Echuca
V1862	Taylor, James Grant	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Ararat
V1862	Templeton, William	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Avoca
V1862	Thomson, John Campbell	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Gisborne
V1862	Tyers, Charles James	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Palmerston
V1862	Webster, Graham	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1862	Willoby, William Allan	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Heathcote
V1862	Wills, Alfred Currie	Commissioner		R	1862-06-30	1862-06-30	Ongoing	Buckland

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	Note in BB1851, but uncertain. It may be a continuation of the 1843 appointment.

Sources

Updates

2025-01-05

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