Electoral district of Sandhurst

Sandhurst (initially Sandhurst Boroughs)[1][2] was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly[3][4] in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904.[3] It was based on the towns of Sandhurst[5] (now Bendigo) and Lockwood.[6]

Sandhurst
Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria, 1859
StateVictoria
Created1856
Abolished1904
DemographicUrbanised Rural
Coordinates36°45′S 144°16′E

The district was defined as:

SANDHURST — Commencing at a point on the Bendigo Creek 40 chains south of the junction of Ash-street and High-street; thence east one mile and a half; thence north four miles; thence west two and a half miles, crossing the Bendigo Creek, thence south four miles, thence east to the point of commencement.

LOCKWOOD — Commencing at the south-western angle of suburban allotment 23, section 1; bounded on the east by a line northward from that point to the southeastern angle of portion 44, section 4; on the north by a line bearing west to the south-western angle of allotment No. 1, section 4, on the west by a line bearing south to a point due west from the commencing point; and on the south by a line east to the south-west angle of suburban allotment No. 23, section 1, being the commencing point.

aforesaid.[4]

From 1904, Sandhurst was split into two districts, Bendigo West and Bendigo East.[3]

The district of Sandhurst Boroughs was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[1]

Members for Sandhurst

One member 1856[1] to 1859,[3] two from 1859.[3][7]

Sandhurst Boroughs (1856–1859, 1 member)
Member Term
James Macpherson Grant Nov 1856 – Aug 1859
Sandhurst (1859–1877, 2 members)
Member 1 Term Member 2 Term
John Henderson Oct 1859 – Jul 1861 Robert Frederick Howard Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
James Joseph Casey Aug 1861 – Mar 1862  William Denovan Aug 1861 – Jul 1862
Robert Frederick Howard Mar 1862 – Dec 1865 Robert Strickland Nov 1862 – Aug 1864
Robert Burrowes Feb 1866 – Apr 1877 John Halfey Nov 1864 – Dec 1867
Angus Mackay Mar 1868 – Apr 1877
Sandhurst (1877–1889, 3 members)[8] (1889–1904, 2 members)[9]
Member 1 Term Member 2 Term Member 3 Term
Robert Clark May 1877 – Apr 1883 Sir John McIntyre May 1877 – Jun 1880 W. G. Blackham[10] May 1877 – Jul 1877[11]
Angus Mackay Jul   1877 – Feb 1880
Angus Mackay Jul   1883 – Feb 1886 Robert Burrowes May 1880 – Sep 1893 Sir John Quick Jul   1880 – Mar 1889
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes[12][13][14][15]   Mar 1886 – Sep 1894
Walter Hamilton Oct 1894 – Oct 1900[16] Daniel Barnet Lazarus[16] Oct 1893 – Sep 1897
Daniel Barnet Lazarus Nov 1900 – Sep 1902 Alfred Shrapnell Bailes* Oct 1897 – May 1904
Walter Hamilton Oct 1902 – May 1904

      * Bailes was later member for Bendigo East (1904 to 1907).[3]

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References
  1. Edward Sweetman (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  2. "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  3. "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
  4. "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  5. "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Sandhurst" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  6. "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Lockwood" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
  7. "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
  8. "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  9. "The General Election". Portland Guardian. Trove. 21 September 1894. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
  10. "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. Trove. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  11. Blackham's election was invalid, he was disqualified because he was insolvent. He wasn't sworn-in. "Blackham Resigns". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 7 July 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
  12. Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1880s (State Library Victoria).
  13. Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1878; Lerk, L., "Both Mayor and Minstrel", Bendigo Weekly, 7 August 2015.
  14. Parliament of Victoria: Remember Database: Alfred Shrapnell Bailes.
  15. Deaths: Bailes, The Age, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.1; Personal, The Argus, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.16.
  16. "The New Assembly". Gippsland Times. 5 November 1900.
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