Henry Copeland (politician)

Henry Copeland, (6 June 1839 – 22 June 1904) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.[1]

Henry Copeland, 1880

Copeland was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Aged 18 years, he arrived in Williamstown, Victoria and spent around 15 years on the goldfields as a digger, farmer and contractor.[2] He left Ballarat and moved to New South Wales in 1872.

Copeland was elected unopposed to the New South Wales Mining Board in 1874.[2] He entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and represented six different seats between 1877 and 1900.[2]

Copeland was Secretary for Lands in the Jennings ministry from February 1886 to January 1887. In October 1891, when the third Dibbs ministry Government was formed, he was again appointed Minister of Lands.[3] Copeland died in Twickenham, London, England on 22 June 1904.[1]

His brother was the Rev. G.D. Copeland of St Stephen's, London.

References

Rutledge, Martha. "Copeland, Henry (1839–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 3 December 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
"The Hon. Henry COPELAND (1839-1904)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
Mennell, Philip (1892). "Copeland, Hon. Henry" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Preceded by Robert Forster	Member for Goldfields North 1877–1880	Abolished
Preceded by Samuel Terry	Member for New England 1880–1882 Served alongside: William Proctor	Succeeded by James Farnell
Preceded by William Foster Joseph Mitchell	Member for Newtown 1882–1883 Served alongside: Frederick Gibbes	Succeeded by Joseph Mitchell
Preceded by John McElhone	Member for East Sydney 1883–1887 Served alongside: Barton, Griffiths/Reid, Reid/Burdekin	Succeeded by William McMillan John Street
Preceded by William Proctor	Member for New England 1887–1894 Served alongside: James Inglis, none/Edmund Lonsdale	Abolished
New seat	Member for Armidale 1894–1895	Succeeded by Edmund Lonsdale
Preceded by Richard Meagher	Member for Sydney-Phillip 1895–1900	Succeeded by Daniel O'Connor

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[adb-1] Rutledge, Martha. "Copeland, Henry (1839–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 3 December 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.

[parl-2] "The Hon. Henry COPELAND (1839-1904)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

[3] Mennell, Philip (1892). "Copeland, Hon. Henry" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.