Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1860 – Police Magistrates


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Port Phillip District (1836-1851) Colony of Victoria (1851-1900) Victoria (1901-1929)

Years:		1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858	1859	1860	1861	1862	1863	1864	1865	1866	1867	1868	1869	1870	1871	1872	1873	1874	1875	1876	1877	1878	1879	1880
		1881	1882	1883	1884	1885	1886	1887	1888	1889	1890	1891	1892	1893	1894	1895	1896	1897	1898	1899	1900

Bodies:

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Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens Crown Lands Chinese Protectorate

Roles:

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Police Magistrates

Roles:	The column headed R [Role] is the assigned role.
	The columns headed PM [Police Magistrate], GF [Gold Commissioner (1851-1855) or Warden of the Gold Fields (1855-1907)], CL [Commissioner of Crown Lands], and CP [Chinese Protector] show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time. They do not include other roles, which may be indicated in the Comments column or on the person's profile page.
	= Government Office (Paid), = Government Duties (Unpaid), = On leave, = To be determined.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book, CL = Commissioner of Crown Lands, CP = Chinese Protector, CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions, GC = Gold Commissioner, GR = Gold Receiver,
	GW = Warden of the Gold Fields, JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate), PM = Police Magistrate,
	FN = Footnotes, PSL = Public Service List S/S1/S2 = Source, TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed, = Reappointed (under new legislation), = Promoted, = Demoted, = Redesignated, = Transferred, = Replaced/Succeeded,
	= Position made permanent, = Paid as (role).

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number is the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S1, S2):	= Blue Book, = Blue Book derived, = Government Gazette, = Government Gazette derived, = Public Service List, = Public Service List derived,
	= Report, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract, = Cemetery, = Census, = Legal,
	= Newspaper family notice, = Newspaper article, = Book/Magazine, = Other, = Unconfirmed, = Military service record, = Internet.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format, "Ongoing" = Continues into next calendar year, New date, Date changed in source, Date died, Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed information.

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1860 was the first year in which the Gold Wardens were all paid as Police Magistrates, making “Warden of the Gold Fields” a set of duties performed by the Police Magistrates.

Police Magistrates

BB	Name	Title	S	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next	FN
V1860	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	1860-08-29	Sandhurst		Buckland.
V1860	Alley, James Henry Cooper	Police Magistrate (Acting)	R	1860-09-17	1860-08-30	1860-11-11	Buckland	Puckle (on leave).	Acting GR, Morse's Creek.
V1860	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-01	1855-02-01	1860-11-30	Creswick
V1860	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Police Magistrate	R		1860-12-01	Ongoing			On unpaid leave.
V1860	Anderson, Musgrave Wroughton	Police Magistrate	R		1859-03-06	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1860	Atkins, Heyward St Leger	Police Magistrate	R		1858-02	1860-06-30	Belvoir	PM Albury NSW.
V1860	Barnard, Edward Thomas	Police Magistrate	R		1857-03	Ongoing	Beechworth
V1860	Blair, James	Police Magistrate	R		1840-08-20	Ongoing	Portland
V1860	Bonsey, William Henry	Police Magistrate	R		1853-01-29	Ongoing	Geelong
V1860	Brownrigg, Marcus Freeman	Police Magistrate	V		1860-08-16	Ongoing	Belvoir	PM Albury NSW. Atkins.
V1860	Bull, John Edward Newell	Police Magistrate	R		1860-01-01	Ongoing	Castlemaine
V1860	Call, Frederick	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Maryborough
V1860	Carey, John Le Marchant	Police Magistrate	R		1858-06-07	Ongoing	Sale
V1860	Carr, Charles Warburton	Police Magistrate	R		1858-06-08	Ongoing	Anderson's Creek
V1860	Clissold, Stephen Thomas	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Ballarat
V1860	Clow, James Maxwell	Police Magistrate	R		1856-05-05	Ongoing	Steiglitz
V1860	Cogdon, John Montague	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1857-06-20	1860-08-26	Buninyong		Amherst.
V1860	Cogdon, John Montague	Police Magistrate	R	1860-08-27	1860-08-27	1860-09-30	Amherst	Crespigny.	Waranga.
V1860	Cogdon, John Montague	Police Magistrate	R	1860-10-16	1860-10-01	Ongoing	Waranga	Pohlman.
V1860	Crawford, William	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Williamstown
V1860	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Police Magistrate	R	1859-02-21	1859-02-21	Ongoing	Amherst	Cogdon. Resumed 1860-09-16.
V1860	Daly, James	Police Magistrate	R	1858-08-16	1858-08-16	1860-08-05	Ballarat East			[01]
V1860	Daly, James	Police Magistrate	R	1860-08-27	1860-08-06	Ongoing	Hepburn (Daylesford)	Doveton.
V1860	Davies, John	Police Magistrate (Acting)	R	1860-01-16	1860-01-16	TBD	Hotham Market	For creation of the market.
V1860	Doveton, Francis Crossman	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1860-01-07	1860-06-30	Hepburn (Daylesford)		"Ceased to hold office."	[02]
V1860	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Police Magistrate	R		1857	1860-07-19	Buckland		Raglan.
V1860	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Police Magistrate	R	1860-09-17	1860-08-30	1860-11-21	Raglan	Willoby.	Creswick.
V1860	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Police Magistrate	R	1860-11-22	1860-11-22	Ongoing	Creswick	Amos (on leave).
V1860	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Police Magistrate	R	1860-08-20	1860-07-20	Ongoing	Beechworth
V1860	Eardley-Wilmot, Charles Octavius	Police Magistrate	R	1859-06-06	1859-05-30	1860-07-19	Ararat		Inglewood.
V1860	Eardley-Wilmot, Charles Octavius	Police Magistrate	R	1860-08-27	1860-07-20	Ongoing	Inglewood
V1860	Fetherstonhaugh, Cuthbert	Police Magistrate	R		1854-01-01	Ongoing	Hamilton
V1860	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate	R	1860-06-04	1860-06-04	1860-11-07	Ballarat		Smythe's Creek.
V1860	Foster, William Henry	Police Magistrate	R	1860-11-15	1860-11-08	Ongoing	Smythe's Creek	Hamilton (on leave).
V1860	Gaunt, William Henry	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1857-06-25	Ongoing	Indigo	or Woolshed.
V1860	Gilles, Lewis William	Police Magistrate	R		1854-01-17	Ongoing	Warrnambool
V1860	Hackett, Charles Prendergast	Police Magistrate	R		1855-09	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1860	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Police Magistrate	R		1859-05-02	Ongoing	Smythe's Creek
V1860	Harrison, George	Police Magistrate	R			Ongoing	Castlemaine
V1860	Hedley, George Dixon	Police Magistrate (Acting)	R		1859-04-15	1860-06-30	Palmerston	Tyers returned.
V1860	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Police Magistrate	R		1857-08	Ongoing	Fryerstown
V1860	Horne, Robert Wintle	Police Magistrate	R	1859-06-06	1859-05-30	1860-07-31	Heathcote	Arnold.	"Ceased to hold office."
V1860	Lane, Henry Bowyer Joseph	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1857-06	Ongoing	Yackandandah
V1860	Lavender, William	Police Magistrate	R		1852	Ongoing	Kyneton
V1860	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Police Magistrate	R		1856-08-13	Ongoing	Inglewood
V1860	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Police Magistrate	R		1857-07-04	Ongoing	Maldon
V1860	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Police Magistrate	R		1857-09	Ongoing	Kilmore
V1860	McLachlan, Lachlan	Police Magistrate	R		1853-03	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1860	Mollison, Crawford	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Sandhurst
V1860	Morphy, John Stephen	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Beechworth	Also Snake Valley.
V1860	Morphy, John Stephen	Police Magistrate	R				Snake Valley	Also Beechworth.
V1860	Murray, Virginius	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1855-07-01	Ongoing	Dunolly
V1860	O'Sullivan, Matthew	Police Magistrate	R		1859-08-15	Ongoing	Benalla
V1860	Orme, Francis Knox	Police Magistrate	R		1854-08-01	Ongoing	Avoca
V1860	Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Swan Hill
V1860	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Police Magistrate	R	1859-08-09	1859-08-09	1860-10-22	Waranga		Maryborough.
V1860	Pohlman, Frederick Roper	Police Magistrate	R	1860-10-29	1859-10-23	Ongoing	Maryborough
V1860	Puckle, Frederick Hale	Police Magistrate	R		1860-07-20	Ongoing	Buckland	Dowling.
V1860	Robertson, Alexander Philadelphia Lamb	Police Magistrate	R	1857-12-17	1857-12-17	Ongoing	Queenscliff	Health Officer.
V1860	Shadforth, Robert William	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Wangaratta
V1860	Sherard, Charles Wale	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Ballarat West
V1860	Shuter, Charles	Police Magistrate	R		1855-07-01	Ongoing	Mount Blackwood
V1860	Smith, Alexander John	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Castlemaine	Also Taradale.
V1860	Smith, Bernhard William	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Pleasant Creek
V1860	Stewart, George	Police Magistrate	R		1851-07	Ongoing	Belfast
V1860	Strutt, Charles Edward	Police Magistrate	R	1858-01-07	1858-01-07	Ongoing	Echuca
V1860	Sturt, Evelyn Pitfield Shirley	Police Magistrate	R		1850-01-01	Ongoing	Melbourne
V1860	Taylor, James Grant	Police Magistrate	R	1860-02-06	1860-02-02	Ongoing	Ararat
V1860	Templeton, William	Police Magistrate	R	1858-06-14	1858-06-14	Ongoing	Avoca			[03]
V1860	Thompson, George Agar	Police Magistrate	R		1860-01-01	1860-07-05	Inglewood		Died
V1860	Thomson, John Campbell	Police Magistrate	R		1857-01-01	Ongoing	Gisborne
V1860	Tyers, Charles James	Police Magistrate	R	1860-08-11	1860-07-01	Ongoing	Palmerston	Returned to PM. Hedley.
V1860	Webster, Graham	Police Magistrate	R		1858-06-14	Ongoing	Wedderburn
V1860	Willoby, William Allan	Police Magistrate	R		1857-06	Ongoing	Heathcote	R W Horne.
V1860	Willoby, William Allan	Police Magistrate	R	1857-06-20	1857-06	Ongoing	Raglan		Heathcote.
V1860	Wills, Alfred Currie	Police Magistrate	R		1858-03	Ongoing	Omeo

References

Notes[+]

Notes
01⇑	BB1860 has incorrect "from" date.
02⇑	Resignation accepted 1860-08-27.
03⇑	Not in BB1860.

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1860; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1861 (VPARL 1861-1862, No 3) [BB1860].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1860.

Updates

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