Joseph Robinson (Australian politician)

Joseph Phelps Robinson (c.1815 – 13 August 1848) was a banker and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.[1][2]

Colonial Australia

Robinson was a Quaker and arrived aboard the Cornubia in Sydney in June 1842. Benjamin Boyd was a partner, and together they set up an office at Church Hill. Robinson's banking business brought him to the Port Phillip District in 1843[2] and in March 1844,[3] he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Town of Melbourne. Robinson held the seat until 20 June 1848.[1]

Robinson was the seconder of John Dunmore Lang's motion in the New South Wales Legislative Council that the Port Phillip District be separated from New South Wales.[1][4]

Robinson died at his residence, Neutral Bay, North Shore, Sydney, New South Wales, of scarlet fever on 13 August 1848.[2][5]

References
  1. "Mr Joseph Phelps Robinson (1815-1848)". Former Members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  2. "Robinson, Joseph Phelps (1815–1848)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 27 July 2014 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. "Legislative Council". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 March 1844. p. 2. Retrieved 24 August 2014 – via Trove.
  4. Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). "Early History of the Colony of Victoria". Retrieved 28 July 2014.
  5. "Death of Mr. Robinson". The Australian. Sydney. 17 August 1848. p. 2. Retrieved 24 August 2014 – via Trove.

 

New South Wales Legislative Council
Preceded by
Henry Condell		 Member for Town of Melbourne
March 1844 – 20 June 1848		 Succeeded by
Earl Henry Grey
as Member for City of Melbourne
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