Charles Myles Officer

Charles Myles Officer, M.L.A., J.P., (14 July 1827 – 1 February 1904) was an Australian grazier and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.[1]

Officer, born at New Norfolk, Tasmania, was the third son of Sir Robert Officer.[2] In 1848 he went to Port Phillip, now Victoria (Australia), where he engaged in pastoral pursuits at Mount Talbot, in the Wimmera district.[2] He was returned to the Assembly for Dundas in 1880, and represented the constituency in the moderate Conservative interest until April 1892.[1] He married first, in 1854, Christina Susannah, daughter of Daniel Robertson, of Launceston, Tasmania; and secondly, in 1876, Ellen Agnes, second daughter of the late Thomas Pope Besnard, of Inverell, New South Wales.[2]

Officer suffered losses from drought on his West Darling properties, he was declared bankrupt in New South Wales on 25 June 1897.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Officer, Charles Myles". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mennell, Philip (1892). "Wikisource link to Officer, Charles Myles". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
  3. ↑ Hone, J. Ann. "Officer, Charles Myles (1827–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 3 April 2013.