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Charles Griffith (Australian politician)

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{{Use Australian English|date=June 2014}}{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2014}}Charles James Griffith (August 1808 – 31 July 1863) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the first Victorian Legislative Council, and later, the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly.^[1]^[2]

Griffith was born in Kildare, County Kildare, Ireland, the fifth son of Richard Griffith,^[2] MP,^[1] and his second wife Mary Henrietta, née Burgh.

Griffith was educated at the Trinity College, Dublin (M.A., 1832) and called to the Irish bar.^[2] He arrived in the Port Phillip District (later to become the colony of Victoria) in 1840.^[1]

On 31 October 1851^[3] Griffith was sworn-in as a nominated member of the Victorian Legislative Council, a position he held until resigning June 1852. He was replaced in the Council by John Riddell.^[3] Griffith was then elected to the Council as a member for Normanby, Dundas and Follett, on 1 June 1853,^[4] he resigned in April 1854, but was re-elected in June 1854 and held the seat until the unicameral Council was abolished in March 1856.^[1]

Griffith was elected to the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly for Dundas and Follett, being sworn-in in November 1856. He resigned from the Assembly in 1858.

Griffith died childless on 31 July 1863 at his home in Dandenong Road, South Yarra, Victoria, Australia.^[2]

References

1. ^¹²³{{cite re-member |mid=410 |name=Griffith, Charles James}}
2. ^¹²³{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Carole |last=Woods |title=Griffith, Charles James (1808–1863) |id2=griffith-charles-james-3671 |accessdate=11 June 2014}}
3. ^¹{{cite book |title=Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6 |last=Sweetman |first=Edward |year=1920 |publisher=Whitcombe & Tombs Limited |page=166 |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee |accessdate=13 August 2014}}
4. ^{{cite book |url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1301991h.html |title=Early History of the Colony of Victoria |volume=II |author=Labilliere, Francis Peter}}

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