Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves

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Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves (7 September 1806 - 23 May 1874) was a mayor and Member of Parliament in Melbourne, Australia.

He was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England and emigrated to the Port Phillip District in New South Wales in 1840. He was a surgeon, publican and local councillor and was the mayor of the City of Melbourne between 1849 and 1850. He was also, for a short time, the editor of the Port Phillip Gazette and the Melbourne Morning Herald.

Greeves was an MLC in Victoria from 1853 to 1856 and an MLA from 1856 to 1861 and from 1864 to 1865. He died in Melbourne on the 23rd of May, 1874 at the age of 67 and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery.

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