Electoral district of Emerald Hill explained

Emerald Hill
Created:	1859
Abolished:	1904
State:	vic
Class:	Inner metropolitan
Coordinates:	-37.8333°N 202°W

Emerald Hill was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Australia. It covered part of the inner-city suburb South Melbourne and consisted part of the previous Electoral district of South Melbourne which was abolished in 1859. (The other part of the South Melbourne electorate became the Electoral district of Sandridge).

1859

Emerald Hill was first proclaimed in 1859,^[1] and was defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 (which took effect at the 1859 elections) as:

This point is approximately where Wurundjeri Way crosses the south bank of the river now.^[2]

1889

Emerald Hill was redefined as a single-member electorate by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1888 (which took effect at the 1889 elections) as: That part of the pre-1888 district immediately south of the Yarra became the Electoral district of Melbourne South.

Parts of the electorate were later amalgamated into the Electoral district of Albert Park.^[3]

Members for Emerald Hill

Member 1		Party	Term
		Robert Stirling Hore Anderson		Oct 1859 – Aug 1864
		Henry Creswick		Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
		John Whiteman		Feb 1866 – Dec 1867
		George Frederic Verdon		Mar 1868 – May 1868	2 Members (1877–1889)
		John Whiteman		Jun 1868 – Apr 1877	Member 2		Party	Term
		Andrew Lyell	Ministerial^[4]	May 1877 – Jun 1880		John Nimmo	Liberal	May 1877 – Mar 1889
		Robert MacGregor		Jul   1880 – Sep 1883
		David Gaunson		Oct 1883 – Mar 1889
		Thomas Smith	Labor	Apr 1889 – May 1904

Notes and References

1. Web site: Re-member (former members). Parliament of Victoria. 8 January 2013.
2. The Gas Works are shown on this 1855 map of Melbourne (at right).
3. Web site: Electoral Districts Boundaries Act 1903 . Australasian Legal Information Institute . 21 January 2014.
4. Web site: The New Parliament . 15 May 1877 . The Camperdown Chronicle . 8 January 2013.