Electoral district of Maryborough (Victoria)

{{Short description|Former electoral district in Victoria, Australia}}

{{for|the Queensland electorate|Electoral district of Maryborough (Queensland)}}

{{Infobox Australian electorate

|name = Maryborough

|state = vic

|image = Electoral district of Maryborough, Victoria.png

|caption = Location in Victoria, 1859

|lifespan = 1859–1877, 1889–1927

|created =

|abolished=

|mp =

|mp-party =

|namesake = Maryborough, Victoria

|area =

|class = Rural

}}

The Electoral district of Maryborough was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly based on an area around Maryborough, Victoria.

It was created in the expansion of the Assembly by the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858,{{cite web

|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/aatatedovatitnomotlat1066.pdf

|title=An Act to alter the Electoral Districts of Victoria and to increase the number of Members of the Legislative Assembly thereof.

|year=1858

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

|access-date=18 April 2014}} which took effect at the election in 1859.

The district was defined as: {{cquote|Commencing at the junction of the Green Gully with the River Loddon; thence by that gully to its head; thence by a line west to the range dividing the waters of Joyce's Creek and the Deep Creek;{{ref label|a|a}} thence northwards by that range to a point due east of the south-east angle of the parish of Carisbrook; thence by a line due west to McNeil's Creek;{{ref label|b|b}} thence by McNeil's Creek and the River Loddon, to the commencing point}}

:{{ref label|a|a}} also known as Tullaroop Creek.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.getamap.net/maps/australia/victoria/_tullaroopcreek/

|publisher=getamap.net

|title=Tullaroop Creek

|access-date=18 April 2014

}} {{ref label|b|b}} also known as Bet Bet Creek.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/tlca1881231/

|title=The Legislative Council Act 1881

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

|access-date=18 April 2014

}}

Maryborough was abolished by the Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876 (taking effect in 1877) and replaced by Electoral district of Maryborough and Talbot.

{{cite web

|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/teaaa1876234/

|title=The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876

|access-date=18 April 2014

|publisher=Australasian Legal Information Institute

}}

Maryborough was recreated in 1889 after 'Maryborough and Talbot' was split by the Seat Distribution Bill of 1888.

{{cite web

|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59978796

|title=Summary of Events

|work=Illustrated Australian News

|date=13 October 1888

}}

In 1927 the district of Maryborough was again abolished, replaced by the Electoral district of Maryborough and Daylesford.

Members

colspan="4"\|First incarnation 1859–1877, two members
class="wikitable"
Member 1	Term	Member 2	Term
Richard D. Ireland	Oct 1859 – Dec 1860{{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87948684 \|title=Mr. Ireland's Defeat \|date=13 December 1860 \|newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser }} \| Michael Prendergast	Oct 1859 – Jul 1861
rowspan=3 \| Nathaniel Levi	rowspan=3 \| Jan 1861 {{cite news \|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5696379 \|newspaper=The Argus \|access-date=7 February 2014 \|location=Melbourne \|title=The Victorian Parliament \|date=4 January 1861 }} – Dec 1865 \| Richard Davies Ireland	Aug 1861{{ref label\|c\|c}}
George S. Evans	Oct 1861 – Aug 1864
James Mason	Nov 1864 – Dec 1865
Robert Bowman	Feb 1866 – Mar 1870 \| James McKean	Feb 1866 – Jan 1871
Duncan Gillies	Mar 1870 – Apr 1877 \| William Fraser	Apr 1871 – Apr 1877

:{{ref label|c|c}} Davies won both Maryborough and Villiers and Heytesbury at the August 1861 general elections,

{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5703653

|title=The Victorian Parliament

|date=31 August 1861

|work=The Argus

|location=Melbourne

|access-date=7 February 2014

|publisher=Trove

}} he resigned from Maryborough.

class="wikitable"
colspan="4"\|Second incarnation 1889–1927, one member
colspan="2"\|Member	Party	Term
\| Alfred Outtrim \| Unaligned \| 1889–1902
\| Frederick Field \| Unaligned \| 1902–1904
{{Australian party style\|Labor}}\| \| rowspan=3\|Alfred Outtrim \| Labor \| 1904–1916
{{Australian party style\|National Labor}}\| \| National Labor \| 1916–1917
{{Australian party style\|Nationalist}}\| \| Nationalist \| 1917–1920
{{Australian party style\|Labor}}\| \| George Frost \| Labor \| 1920–1927

class="wikitable"

colspan="4"|Second incarnation 1889–1927, one member

colspan="2"|Member

Party

Term

| Alfred Outtrim

| Unaligned

| 1889–1902

| Frederick Field

| Unaligned

| 1902–1904

{{Australian party style|Labor}}|