James Hunter Ross (10 February 1788 – 18 September 1865) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.
Ross was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian, Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan. He practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841, founding later that same year the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.
On 31 October 1851, Ross was nominated,[1] being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council,[2] a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.[1]
References edit
- ^ a b Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 166. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Labilliere, Francis Peter (1878). Early History of the Colony of Victoria. Vol. II.
Links edit
- PROFILE, parliament.vic.gov.au. Accessed 6 March 2024.