James Ross (Australian lawyer)
James Hunter Ross 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, being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council,
a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.
Links
- , parliament.vic.gov.au. Accessed 6 March 2024.
Category:1865 deaths
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