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John Mercer (Australian pastoralist)

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{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2016}}{{Use Australian English|date=November 2016}}John Henry Mercer (4 January 1823 – 8 December 1891)^[1] was a landowner, pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia).^[2]^[3]

Mercer born in Midlothian, Scotland, the son of George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid.^[1]

Mercer was a pastoralist with his brother George Duncan Mercer and cousin William Drummond Mercer in properties near Geelong.^[2]^[3]

Mercer was elected to the district of Grant in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council on 16 September 1851.^[4]^[5]

Mercer left the Council in December 1852,^[2] he became commissioner of insolvent estates and chairman of the water commission.^[3] In 1857 Mercer had the Gheringhap freehold mapped as the Dryden estate. Mercer later returned to Scotland where he married Anne Catherine Anstruther on 11 December 1861.^[1] Mercer died in Huntingtower, Perthshire on 8 December 1891.^[1]

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1. ^¹²³{{cite web |url=http://www.holmesacourt.org/hac/4/10035.htm |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813200502/http://www.holmesacourt.org/hac/4/10035.htm |archivedate=14 August 2014 |title=John Henry Mercer |publisher=Holmes à Court Family History |accessdate=14 August 2014}}
2. ^¹²{{cite re-member |mid=583 |name=Mercer, John Henry}}
3. ^¹²{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=P. L. |last=Brown |title=Mercer, John Henry (1823–1891) |id2=mercer-john-henry-2842 |accessdate=10 June 2014}}
4. ^{{cite book |title=Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6 |last=Sweetman |first=Edward |year=1920 |publisher=Whitcombe & Tombs Limited |page=169 |url=https://archive.org/details/constitutionalde00swee |accessdate=14 August 2014}}
5. ^{{cite book |url=http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks13/1301991h.html |title=Early History of the Colony of Victoria |volume=II |authorlink=Francis Peter Labilliere |last=Labilliere |first=Francis Peter}}

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4 : 1823 births|1891 deaths|Members of the Victorian Legislative Council|19th-century Australian politicians

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