Henry Bolton (Australian politician) explained

Henry Bolton
Constituency Am:Moira
Assembly:Victorian Legislative
Term Start:May 1880
Term End:April 1884
Birth Date:1842
Birth Place:Galway, Ireland
Death Date:29 March 1900
Nationality:Irish
Spouse:Annie Eagan

Henry Bolton (1842 – 29 March 1900), was a brewer and politician in colonial Victoria.

Bolton was the son of James Bolton, a farmer and civil engineer, and his wife Mary Fynn of Galway, Ireland, where he was born in 1842. He came to Victoria in 1861, and began as a brewer at Heathcote, removing to Seymour in 1869. He was president of the Seymour Shire Council, and having unsuccessfully contested Moira in the Liberal interest in 1877, was returned to the Legislative Assembly for that constituency in 1880. He was Postmaster-General in the Bryan O'Loghlen Government from July 1881 to March 1883. He subsequently retired from public life in Victoria, and commenced business in Queensland. Bolton married, in 1866, Annie, second daughter of James Eagan, of the Major's Line Station.[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Parliament of Victoria - Bolton, Henry. 2012. Parliament of Victoria. 25 May 2012. Melbourne, Victoria.
  2. Web site: Historical Index Searching. Queensland Government. 1900/C2672. 25 May 2012. 5 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190305164805/https://www.bdm.qld.gov.au/IndexSearch/queryEntry.m?type=deaths. dead.