Samuel Bindon (Australian politician)
Samuel Henry Bindon (1812 – 1 August 1879) was a judge and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.[1]
Samuel Bindon | |
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| Member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Castlemaine | |
| In office 1864–1868 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1812 Limerick, Ireland |
| Died | August 1, 1879 (aged 66–67) St Kilda, Victoria, Australia |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Dublin |
| Occupation | Judge, politician |
Bindon was born in Limerick, Ireland[2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1835.[1] He was called to the Irish bar, and after practising for some years in Dublin, moved to Victoria in 1855; in May of that year, he was admitted to the bar there.[1] He sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Castlemaine from 1864 to 1868, and was minister of justice in the Sir James McCulloch government from July 1866 to May 1868.[1] In 1869 he was appointed a county court judge, and held that position, with the exception of a short interval in 1878, when he was one of the victims of the Black Wednesday dismissals, till his death on 1 August 1879[1] in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.[2]
References
- Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- Potts, David. "Bindon, Samuel Henry (1812–1879)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 14 November 2013.