Henry Rowland Gascoigne Dumaresq (20 February 1839 – 31 October 1924) was an Australian politician who represented the electoral district of Longford in the

Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ...

between 1886 and 1903. He was elected to the

on 26 July 1886 and resigned on 12 May 1903. He was the son of

Edward Dumaresq Edward Dumaresq (16 June 1802 – 23 April 1906) was a landowner, magistrate and acted as Surveyor General of Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania). Dumaresq was born in Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales, the youngest son of Colonel John Dumaresq and was ed ...

(1802–1906), who had migrated to

Van Dieman's Land Van Diemen's Land was the colonial name of the island of Tasmania used by the British during the European exploration of Australia in the 19th century. A British settlement was established in Van Diemen's Land in 1803 before it became a sepa ...

(Tasmania), in 1825, around the time that his brother-in-law

Ralph Darling General Sir Ralph Darling, GCH (1772 – 2 April 1858) was a British Army officer who served as Governor of New South Wales from 1825 to 1831. He is popularly described as a tyrant, accused of torturing prisoners and banning theatrical entertain ...

became

Governor of New South Wales The governor of New South Wales is the viceregal representative of the Australian monarch, King Charles III, in the state of New South Wales. In an analogous way to the governor-general of Australia at the national level, the governors of the ...

. He was the nephew of Henry Dumaresq (1792–1838) and

William Dumaresq William John Dumaresq (25 February 1793 – 9 November 1868) was an English-born military officer, civil engineer, landholder and early Australian politician. He is associated with settler colonisation of the areas around Scone and Armidale ...

(1793–1868). It is likely that he was named after his uncle, who had died in the year before Dumaresq was born. Dumaresq also played one

first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

match for

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in 1868, almost twenty years before he entered parliament.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dumaresq, Henry 1839 births 1924 deaths Australian cricketers Tasmania cricketers Cricketers from Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly

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