Francis Merewether (Australian politician)

Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether (18 March 1811 – 27 December 1899) was an English-born Australian politician. Merewether served as the Chancellor of the University of Sydney between 1862 and 1865 and the Vice-Chancellor between 1854 and 1862.[1]

He was the son of clergyman Francis Merewether and Frances Elizabeth Way, and attended Eton College and Cambridge University. In 1838 he migrated to Sydney, where he worked in the treasury department and as an immigration agent. In 1841 he married Kate Amelia Plunkett, with whom he had five children. He was a non-elective member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856, during which time he served as Postmaster-General (1851–52) and Auditor-General (1852–56), as well as acting Colonial Treasurer (1854–56). He served in the re-constituted Council from 1856 to 1861 and from 1861 to 1865, when his seat was vacated due to absence.[2]

Merewether died in Essex in 1899 (aged 88).[3]

References
  1. Smith, C E. "Merewether, Francis Lewis Shaw (1811–1899)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 17 August 2016.
  2. "Legislative Council: vacated seats". The Sydney Morning Herald. 25 October 1865. p. 2. Retrieved 15 September 2021 – via Trove.
  3. "Mr Francis Lewis Shaw Merewether (1811-1899)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2019.


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