John Garrett (Australian politician)

John Garrett (1805 21 May 1885) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born at Whitehaven to mariner Thomas Garrett and Jane Ruddick. Around 1827 he married Sarah Stafford, with whom he had eleven children. A painter and plumber, he migrated to Australia in 1840, and eventually became a newspaper proprietor, running the Alpine Pioneer and the Kiandra Advertiser. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Shoalhaven, serving until his resignation to become a police magistrate at Scone in 1861. Garrett died at Woollahra in 1885.[1]

Thomas Garrett, one of his sons, was also a member of the Legislative Assembly, as member for Monaro, Shoalhaven and Camden.[2]

References

  1. "Mr John Garrett (1805-1885)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 10 June 2019.
  2. "Mr Thomas Garrett (1830-1891)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 26 September 2019.

 

New South Wales Legislative Assembly
New seat Member for Shoalhaven
1859–1861
Succeeded by
John Robertson
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