John Mercer (Australian pastoralist)

John Henry Mercer (4 January 1823 – 8 December 1891)[1] was a landowner, pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia).[2] [3]

Mercer born in Midlothian, Scotland, the son of George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid.[1] Mercer was a pastoralist with his brother George Duncan Mercer and cousin William Drummond Mercer in properties near Geelong.[2][3] Mercer was elected to the district of Grant in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council on 16 September 1851.[4][5]

Mercer left the Council in December 1852,[2] he became commissioner of insolvent estates and chairman of the water commission.[3] In 1857 Mercer had the Gheringhap freehold mapped as the Dryden estate. Mercer later returned to Scotland where he married Anne Catherine Anstruther on 11 December 1861.[1] Mercer died in Huntingtower, Perthshire on 8 December 1891.[1]

References
  1. "John Henry Mercer". Holmes à Court Family History. Archived from the original on 14 August 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  2. "Mercer, John Henry". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012.
  3. Brown, P. L. "Mercer, John Henry (1823–1891)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 10 June 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  4. Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 169. Retrieved 14 August 2014.
  5. Labilliere, Francis Peter. Early History of the Colony of Victoria. II.
Victorian Legislative Council
New creation Member for Grant
16 September 1851 – December 1852		 Succeeded by
John Myles
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