Electoral district of Sandhurst

Sandhurst Victoria—Legislative Assembly
Location in Victoria, 1859
State	Victoria
Created	1856
Abolished	1904
Demographic	Urbanised Rural
Coordinates	36°45′S 144°16′E / 36.750°S 144.267°E / -36.750; 144.267Coordinates: 36°45′S 144°16′E / 36.750°S 144.267°E / -36.750; 144.267

Sandhurst (initially Sandhurst Boroughs)^[1][2] was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly^[3][4] in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904.^[3] It was based on the towns of Sandhurst^[5]
(now Bendigo) and Lockwood.^[6]

The district was defined as:

“

SANDHURST — Commencing at a point on the Bendigo Creek 40 chains south of the junction of Ash-street and High-street; thence east one mile and a half; thence north four miles; thence west two and a half miles, crossing the Bendigo Creek, thence south four miles, thence east to the point of commencement. LOCKWOOD — Commencing at the south-western angle of suburban allotment 23, section 1; bounded on the east by a line northward from that point to the southeastern angle of portion 44, section 4; on the north by a line bearing west to the south-western angle of allotment No. 1, section 4, on the west by a line bearing south to a point due west from the commencing point; and on the south by a line east to the south-west angle of suburban allotment No. 23, section 1, being the commencing point. aforesaid.[4]

”

From 1904, Sandhurst was split into two districts, Bendigo West and Bendigo East.^[3]

The district of Sandhurst Boroughs was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856.^[1]

Members for Sandhurst

One member 1856^[1] to 1859,^[3] two from 1859.^[3][7]

Sandhurst Boroughs (1856–1859, 1 member)
Member	Term
James Macpherson Grant	Nov 1856 – Aug 1859

Sandhurst (1859–1877, 2 members)
Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
John Henderson	Oct 1859 – Jul 1861	Robert Frederick Howard	Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
James Joseph Casey	Aug 1861 – Mar 1862	William Denovan	Aug 1861 – Jul 1862
Robert Frederick Howard	Mar 1862 – Dec 1865	Robert Strickland	Nov 1862 – Aug 1864
Robert Burrowes	Feb 1866 – Apr 1877	John Halfey	Nov 1864 – Dec 1867
		Angus Mackay	Mar 1868 – Apr 1877

Sandhurst (1877–1889, 3 members)[8] (1889–1904, 2 members)[9]
Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term	Member 3	Term
Robert Clark	May 1877 – Apr 1883	Sir John McIntyre	May 1877 – Jun 1880	W. G. Blackham[10]	May 1877 – Jul 1877[11]
				Angus Mackay	Jul   1877 – Feb 1880
Angus Mackay	Jul   1883 – Feb 1886	Robert Burrowes	May 1880 – Sep 1893	Sir John Quick	Jul   1880 – Mar 1889
Alfred Shrapnell Bailes[12][13][14][15]	Mar 1886 – Sep 1894
Walter Hamilton	Oct 1894 – Oct 1900[16]	Daniel Barnet Lazarus[16]	Oct 1893 – Sep 1897
Daniel Barnet Lazarus	Nov 1900 – Sep 1902	Alfred Shrapnell Bailes*	Oct 1897 – May 1904
Walter Hamilton	Oct 1902 – May 1904

      ^* Bailes was later member for Bendigo East (1904 to 1907).^[3]

References

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2. 
   ^
   "Victoria Constitution Act 1855" (PDF). Retrieved 12 April 2013.
   


3. 
   ^ ^abcdef
   "Re-Member (Former Members)". State Government of Victoria. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
   


4. 
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   "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
   


5. 
   ^
   "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Sandhurst" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
   


6. 
   ^
   "Electoral District of Sandhurst Boroughs, Lockwood" (map). 1856. Retrieved 15 April 2013.
   


7. 
   ^
   "An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof" (PDF). 1858. Retrieved 14 April 2013.
   


8. 
   ^ "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
   


9. 
   ^
   "The General Election". Portland Guardian. Trove. 21 September 1894. Retrieved 29 April 2013.
   


10. 
    ^ "The Elections". South Bourke and Mornington Journal. Trove. 16 May 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
    


11. 
    ^ Blackham's election was invalid, he was disqualified because he was insolvent. He wasn't sworn-in. "Blackham Resigns". Bendigo Advertiser. Trove. 7 July 1877. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
    


12. 
    ^ Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1880s (State Library Victoria).
    


13. 
    ^ Alfred Shrapnell Bailes c.1878; Lerk, L., "Both Mayor and Minstrel", Bendigo Weekly, 7 August 2015.
    


14. 
    ^ Parliament of Victoria: Remember Database: Alfred Shrapnell Bailes.
    


15. 
    ^ Deaths: Bailes, The Age, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.1; Personal, The Argus, (Monday, 16 January 1928), p.16.
    


16. 
    ^ ^ab "The New Assembly". Gippsland Times. 5 November 1900.
    

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