Electoral district of Ovens
| Ovens Victoria—Legislative Assembly | |
|---|---|
 Location in Victoria, 1856 | |
| State | Victoria |
| Created | 1856 |
| Abolished | 1927 |
| Namesake | The Ovens |
| Demographic | Rural |
Ovens (or The Ovens) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly[1][2] in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1927. It was based in northern Victoria, bordered by the Ovens River in the south-west and included the town of Beechworth, Victoria.[3]
The district of Ovens was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.[1] It was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act 1855 (taking effect at the 1856 elections) as:
Commencing at the Junction of Whorouly Creek with the River Ovens, bounded on the West by a Line bearing North Twenty Miles, thence on the North by a Line bearing East to the Little River, on the East by the Little River to its Source in the dividing Range, thence by the dividing Range and a Line South to a Point on the Ovens River Nine Miles above its Junction with the River Buckland ; on the South by a Line from the last-mentioned Point to the Source of the River Buckland, thence by the dividing Range to the Source of the River Buffalo, and again on the South and West by that River and the Ovens to the commencing Point.[4]
Ovens was superseded by Electoral district of Wangaratta and Ovens in 1927.[2]
Members for Ovens
One member initially,[1] two from the increase in members of 1859.[5] One again from the redistribution of 1889 when the Electoral district of Wangaratta and Rutherglen, amongst others, was created.
| Member 1 | Term | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel Cameron[1] | Nov. 1856 – Mar. 1857 | Member 2 | Term |
| John Wood | Apr. 1857[b] – July 1861[6] | Alexander Keefer | Oct. 1859 – Mar. 1860 |
| William Charles Weekes | Aug. 1861 – Aug. 1864 | John Donald | Mar. 1860[b] – July 1861 |
| Peter Wright | Aug. 1861 – Aug. 1864 | ||
| George Verney Smith | Nov. 1864 – Apr. 1877 | George Kerferd | Nov. 1864 – Jan. 1886[7] |
| George Billson | May 1877 – June 1880 | ||
| William Lawrence Zincke | July 1880 – Feb. 1883 | ||
| George Billson | Feb. 1883 – Feb. 1886 | ||
| Joseph Ferguson | Mar. 1886 – Sep. 1894 | Ferguson Hendley Tuthill | Jan. 1886[b] – Mar. 1889 |
| John Alfred Isaacs | Oct. 1894 – Sep. 1902 | ||
| Thomas Ashworth | Oct. 1902 – May 1904 | ||
| Alfred Billson | June 1904 – Mar. 1927 |
b = by-election
Daniel Cameron was also member for Ovens in the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council December 1855 to March 1856.[8]
References
- ^ a b c d Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 183. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ a b "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ^ "Electoral district of Ovens" (map). 1855. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
- ^ "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
- ^ Eastwood, Jill. "Wood, John Dennistoun (1829–1914)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ Beever, Margot. "Kerferd, George Briscoe (1831–1889)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ "Cameron, Daniel". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 5 June 2013.