James Macpherson Grant
James Macpherson Grant (1822 – 1 April 1885)[1] was an Australian solicitor who defended the Eureka Stockade rebels and a politician who was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and the Victorian Legislative Council.
Grant was born at Alvie, Inverness-shire, Scotland,[2] son of Louis Grant and his wife Isabella, née McBean. His sister Annie, was to marry the encyclopaedist David Blair.[3]
References
- ↑ "James Macpherson Grant". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
- ↑ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ↑ Lhuede, Elizabeth (6 June 2023). ""Journalistic genius": Florence Baverstock". Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog. Retrieved 7 June 2024.
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Grant, James Macpherson". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- Geoffrey Bartlett, 'Grant, James Macpherson (1822–1885)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 283–284. Retrieved 21 April 2013
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- 1822 births
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- Members of the Victorian Legislative Council
- Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
- Vice-presidents of the Board of Land and Works
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- Chief secretaries of Victoria
- Australian solicitors
- Scottish emigrants to colonial Australia
- 19th-century Australian politicians
- Burials at Melbourne General Cemetery
- People from Badenoch and Strathspey
- Ministers for public works (Victoria)
- Ministers for corrections (Victoria)
- Ministers of railways (Victoria)
- Ministers for education (Victoria)
- Commissioners of crown lands and survey (Victoria)