Samuel Bindon

Samuel Henry Bindon (1812 – 1 August 1879) was a judge and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia).[1]

Bindon was born in Limerick, Ireland[2] and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1835.[1] He was called to the Irish bar, and after practising for some years in Dublin, went out to Victoria in 1855; in May of which year he was admitted to the bar of that colony.[1] He sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Castlemaine from 1864 to 1868, and was Minister of Justice in the Sir James McCulloch Government from July 1866 to May 1868.[1] In 1869 he was appointed a County Court Judge, and held that position, with the exception of a short interval in 1878, when he was one of the victims of the Black Wednesday dismissals, till his death on 1 August 1879[1] in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Mennell, Philip (1892). "Wikisource link to Bindon, Hon. Samuel Henry". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Potts, David. "Bindon, Samuel Henry (1812–1879)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 14 November 2013.
Victorian Legislative Assembly
Preceded by
Alexander Smith
John Macadam
George Smyth		 Member for Castlemaine
Nov. 1864 – Oct. 1868
Served alongside:
William Zeal
Thomas Carpenter		 Succeeded by
Richard Kitto