William Dumaresq

William John Dumaresq (1793 – 9 November 1868) was an English-born Australian politician.[1]

William John Dumaresq
Heritage-listed Watch House in Sydney, designed by Dumaresq
Born1793 (1793)
Died(1868-11-09)9 November 1868
Cleveland, Queensland
OccupationPolitician

Life and career

Dumaresq was the son of John Dumaresq, a Shropshire colonel, and Anne Jones. He attended the Royal Military College, Great Marlow, and became a civil engineer. He served in the Royal Staff Corps in the Peninsular War and in Canada, where he worked on the Ottawa canal. He was deputy surveyor-general in New South Wales but retired in 1829. On 15 October 1830 he married Christiana Susan Macleay, daughter of Alexander Macleay; they had two children. Although he lived mainly at Rose Bay from the 1840s, he was associated with the Scone district.

Prior to the establishment of responsible government, Dumaresq was elected to the partially elected New South Wales Legislative Council at the first elections held in the colony in 1843. He represented the electorate of Counties of Hunter, Brisbane and Bligh.[2] He was defeated for the seat at the 1848 New South Wales colonial election by Donald McIntyre, but was re-elected in 1851 as the member for Counties of Phillip, Brisbane and Bligh.[3]

He was appointed to the reconstituted Council in 1856,[4] but resigned without taking his seat.[5]

After his wife's death in 1866, Dumaresq moved to Queensland, and he died at Cleveland in 1868.[6]

See also

References
  1. Gray, Nancy (1966). "Dumaresq, William John (1793-1868)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 8 September 2018 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  2. "Hunter, Brisbane and Bligh election". The Australian. 7 July 1843. p. 3. Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Scone: elections for Brisbane, Bligh and Phillip". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. 8 October 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Proclamation: appointments to the Legislative Council". New South Wales Government Gazette (71). 13 May 1856. pp. 1365–6. Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. "Resignation William Dumaresq". New South Wales Government Gazette (78). 27 May 1856. p. 1487. Retrieved 13 May 2019 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. "Mr William John Dumaresq (1793-1868)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 13 May 2019.

 

New South Wales Legislative Council
New parliament Member for Counties of Hunter, Brisbane & Bligh
1843 – 1848		 Succeeded by
Donald McIntyre
Preceded by
Donald McIntyre
as Member for Counties of Hunter, Brisbane & Bligh		 Member for Counties of Phillip, Brisbane & Bligh
1851 – 1856		 Council replaced by new parliament
New parliament Appointed member
1856		 Succeeded by
uncertain


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