Richard Davies Ireland
Richard Davies Ireland (1816 – 11 January 1877) was an Australian politician, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and Attorney-General.[1][2]
Ireland was born in Galway, educated at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1837)[2] and was called to the Irish bar in 1838.[3]
Ireland emigrated to Victoria in 1852, and was called to the local bar in the following year.[3] His brilliant and gratuitous defence of the Ballarat rioters brought him enormous popularity, and he was elected to represent Castlemaine Boroughs in the Assembly in 1857, and was appointed Solicitor-General in March 1858 in the John O'Shanassy Ministry, retiring with his colleagues in October 1859, when he was returned for Maryborough.[3] Ireland joined the Richard Heales Administration as Attorney-General in November 1860, but resigned in July 1861, four months before the fall of the Ministry. When the O'Shanassy Ministry, which succeeded, came in November, Ireland again became Attorney-General, retiring with his colleagues in June 1863, he did not again hold office.[3] Ireland represented Villiers and Heytesbury from August 1861 until resigning in April 1864, he then represented Kilmore from February 1866 to December 1867.[1]
Ireland died in South Yarra, Melbourne on 11 January 1877; his wife Sophia Mary, née Carr predeceased him.[2]
External links
- "The Biographer.". The Australasian. Melbourne, Vic.: National Library of Australia. 13 January 1877. p. 1 Supplement: The Australasian Supplement. Retrieved 1 September 2014. (Obituary)
References
- 1 2 "Ireland, Richard Davies". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- 1 2 3 Woods, Janice Burns. "Ireland, Richard Davies (1815–1877)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
- 1 2 3 4 Mennell, Philip (1892). "
Ireland, Hon. Richard Davies". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
| Victorian Legislative Assembly | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Alexander Palmer |
Member for Castlemaine Boroughs August 1857 – August 1859 With: Robert Sitwell |
District abolished |
| New district | Member for Maryborough October 1859 – December 1860 With: Michael Prendergast |
Succeeded by Nathaniel Levi |
| Preceded by Alexander Russell |
Member for Villiers and Heytesbury August 1861 – April 1864 With: Charles Gavan Duffy |
Succeeded by Samuel MacGregor |
| Preceded by John O'Shanassy |
Member for Kilmore February 1866 – December 1867 |
Succeeded by Lawrence Bourke |
| Political offices | ||
| Preceded by John Wood |
Attorney-General of Victoria November 1860 – July 1861 |
Succeeded by Butler Cole Aspinall |
| Preceded by Butler Cole Aspinall |
Attorney-General of Victoria November 1861 – June 1863 |
Succeeded by George Higinbotham |