William Mollison (politician)
William Thomas Mollison (1816 – 9 November 1886) was an pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria.[1][2] Born in London, England, to Crawford Mollison and Elizabeth, née Fullerton,[1] he arrived in the Port Phillip District in 1838 to join his brother, Alexander Fullerton Mollison.[2]
On 8 June 1853 Mollison was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for Talbot, Dalhousie and Anglesey, a seat he held until the original council was abolished in March 1856.[1][3] He was elected to represent Dundas and Follett in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in April 1858, holding the seat, renamed Dundas in 1859, until his February 1864 resignation.[1]
Mollison died in England, aged 69 or 70.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "William Thomas Mollison". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ a b c Thomsen, Gael. "Mollison, William Thomas (1816–1886)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 18 July 2014.
- ^ Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). "Early History of the Colony of Victoria". Retrieved 18 July 2014.
