James Ross (Australian lawyer)

James Hunter Ross (10 February 1788 – 18 September 1865) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.

Ross was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan.[1]

Ross practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841.[1] In 1841, Ross founded the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.

On 31 October 1851 Griffith was nominated,[2] being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council,[1][3] a position he held until resigning July 1852.[1] He was replaced in the council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.[2]

References
  1. "James Hunter Ross". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  2. Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 166. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  3. Labilliere, Francis Peter. Early History of the Colony of Victoria. Vol. II.

 

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