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Sir John Bayley DARVALL (1809 - 1883)

  • Date of Birth: 19/11/1809
  • Place of Birth: Felixkirk, Yorkshire, England
  • Date of Death: 28/12/1883
  • Place of Death: London, England

Parliamentary Service

Position Start End Period Parliament Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Council24 Jul 184420 Jun 18483yr(s) 10mth(s) 28day(s)A Non-Elective Member of the first Legislative Council 1843 – 1856
Member of the NSW Legislative Council1 Jul 184830 Jun 18512yr(s) 11mth(s) 30day(s)An Elective Member of the first Legislative Council 1843 - 1856 for the County of Bathurst
Member of the NSW Legislative Council1 Sep 185129 Feb 18564yr(s) 5mth(s) 29day(s)An Elective Member of the first Legislative Council 1843 - 1856 for County of Cumberland
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly4 Apr 185626 Nov 18571yr(s) 7mth(s) 23day(s)
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly25 Jun 185910 Nov 18601yr(s) 4mth(s) 17day(s)
Member of the NSW Legislative Council3 Sep 186117 Jun 18631yr(s) 9mth(s) 15day(s)Life Appointment under the Constitution Act. Date of Writ of Summons 24 June 1861.
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly18 Jun 186322 Jun 18652yr(s) 5day(s)
Member for Cumberland (North Riding)4 Apr 18566 Jun 18562mth(s) 3day(s)1st (1856 - 1857)
Member for Cumberland (North Riding)16 Jun 18563 Oct 18563mth(s) 18day(s)1st (1856 - 1857)
Member for Cumberland (North Riding)16 Oct 185626 Nov 18571yr(s) 1mth(s) 11day(s)1st (1856 - 1857)
Member for Hawkesbury25 Jun 185910 Nov 18601yr(s) 4mth(s) 17day(s)3rd (1859 - 1860)
Member for East Maitland18 Jun 186331 Jul 18631mth(s) 14day(s)4th (1860 - 1864)
Member for East Maitland11 Aug 186310 Nov 18641yr(s) 3mth(s)4th (1860 - 1864)
Member for West Sydney24 Nov 18643 Feb 18652mth(s) 11day(s)5th (1865 - 1869)
Member for West Sydney18 Feb 186522 Jun 18654mth(s) 5day(s)5th (1865 - 1869)
Solicitor General6 Jun 185625 Aug 18562mth(s) 20day(s)
Solicitor General3 Oct 185623 May 18577mths 21days
Attorney General26 May 18577 Sep 18573mth(s) 13day(s)
Attorney General1 Aug 186315 Oct 18632mth(s) 15day(s)
Attorney General3 Feb 186520 Jun 18654mth(s) 18day(s)
Masters’ and Servants’ Acts Continuation Bill Committee No.813 Aug 185618 Mar 18577mths 6days1st (1856 - 1857)
Governor General’s Opening Speech11 Aug 185711 Aug 18571day1st (1856 - 1857)
Standing Order Committee12 Aug 185718 Dec 18574mths 7days1st (1856 - 1857)
Standing Orders Committee No.21 Sep 18594 Jul 186010mths 4days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Petition of Alexander Berry, Esquire, Committee No.303 Feb 18604 Jul 18605mths 2days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Hawkesbury Benevolent Society’s Act Amendment Bill Committee No.3516 Feb 18604 Jul 18604mths 19days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Dean of St Andrew’s Sydney Committee No.3617 Feb 18604 Jul 18604mths 18days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Federation of the Australian Colonies Committee No.383 Apr 18604 Jul 18603mths 2days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Standing Orders Committee No.227 Sep 18609 Nov 18601mth 14days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Federation of the Australian Colonies Committee No.528 Sep 18609 Nov 18601mth 13days3rd (1859 - 1860)
Petition of Mr Alexander Berry Committee No.912 Oct 18609 Nov 186029days3rd (1859 - 1860)
The Governor’s Opening Speech Committee No.123 Jun 186323 Jun 18631day4th (1860 - 1864)
Payments made out of Public Funds without Authority of Parliament Committee No.426 Jun 186318 Aug 18631mth 24days4th (1860 - 1864)
Fisheries Bill Committee No.924 Mar 18653 May 18651mth 10days5th (1865 - 1869)

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Lawyer (barrister). Educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge (Bachelor of Arts 1833 and Master of Arts 1837). Admitted to Middle Temple 1833. Articled to Uncle Sir John Bayley and later marshall to Lord Bayley. Called to the Bar in 1838. Arrived in Sydney in August 1839. Admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1939 and established a practice. Declined judgeship in Victoria in 1851 and became a Queens Counsel in 1853. Associated with pastoral and commercial interests soon after arrival. Director of Sydney Banking Company, Australian Banking Company. Was involved with other companies which collapsed in early 1940's depression. Founding Director of Australian Joint Stock Bank. Member of Sydney Chamber of Commerce. Member of the first Senate of Sydney University 1850 - 1868. Trustee Australian Club. A 'patrician' liberal liberal in the early 1850's. Opposed Constitution Bill in 1853. Joined conservative Constitutional Association in 1860. Returned to Britain in 1865. Left an estate of £60,000 in England and £20,000 in New South Wales.


Honours Received

Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1869, Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in 1877.


Personal

Son of Major Edward and his wife Emily Johnson. Married Elizabeth Flora Shapland on on 27 September 1837 and they had 4 sons and 3 daughters. Church of England. Andrew Barton Paterson, the poet and journalist, was the grandson of his sister, Emily May Darvall Barton.


Additional Information

Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4 Personal papers in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales: Sir John Bayley Darvall - papers, 1823 - 1869 (MLMSS A5436



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