Morgan McDonnell

The Honourable Morgan Augustus McDonnell (1824 – 23 September 1889) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), Attorney-General of Victoria 1868 and 1869–70.[1]

McDonnell was the eldest son of Michael Cypryan McDonnell, of Douay, France. He entered as a student at Gray's Inn in May 1851, and was called to the bar in January 1855.[1] He emigrated to Victoria in 1864, and in the following year was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Villiers and Heytesbury.[1] He was Attorney-General in the Charles Sladen Ministry from 6 May to 11 July 1868, and in that of John Alexander MacPherson from 20 September 1869 to 9 April 1870.[2] McDonnell, who was the father of the well-known cricketer, Percy Stanislaus McDonnell,[3] immediately afterwards retired from public life, and died on 23 September 1889.[1]

References
  1. Mennell, Philip (1892). "McDonnell, Hon. Morgan Augustus" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
  2. "McDonnell, Morgan". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2014.
  3. Johnson, Ian. "McDonnell, Percy Stanislaus (1860–1896)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 7 January 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
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