Gerald Spring
Gerald Spring (1 July 1830 – 9 November 1888)[1] was an Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and Secretary for Lands in the 1880s.
Spring was born in Castlemaine, County Kerry, Ireland. He was the youngest child of Francis Spring and his wife Catherine, née Fitzgerald.,[1] and a descendant of the Anglo-Irish Spring family. Gerald Spring arrived in New South Wales around 1853.[1] Spring became chief constable at Dubbo, New South Wales in 1862 and a sheep inspector for Coonabarabran, New South Wales in 1865.[1]
Spring was elected as member for the district of Wellington in 1869 for a three-year term.[1] On 4 December 1882, he was elected to the seat of Young and held the seat until 26 January 1887.[2] Spring was Secretary for Lands from December 1885 to February 1886.[3]
On 27 August 1867 Spring married Jane née Watt; their son David Spring, also became a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.[1] On 9 November 1888 Spring died of tuberculosis at his property Moorong near Young, New South Wales, and was buried in the Church of England cemetery at Young.[1]
His son, Thomas Spring, was a candidate for the seat of Cootamundra in the 1913 New South Wales state election.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Walsh, G. P. "Spring, Gerald (1830–1888)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Mr Gerald Spring (1830–1888)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "The Men for the Country". The Sydney Stock and Station Journal. Vol. XXV, no. 54. New South Wales, Australia. 3 October 1913. p. 5. Retrieved 4 July 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- 1830 births
- 1888 deaths
- Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
- 19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
- Irish emigrants to colonial Australia
- Spring family
- 19th-century Australian politicians
- Colony of New South Wales people
- People from Castlemaine, County Kerry
- Politicians from County Kerry
- Infectious disease deaths in New South Wales
- Tuberculosis deaths in Australia