Hugh Wallace (1808 – 7 June 1868) was a Scottish-born Australian politician.
He was born at
Dumfries
Dumfries ( ; sco, Dumfries; from gd, Dùn Phris ) is a market town and former royal burgh within the Dumfries and Galloway council area of Scotland. It is located near the mouth of the River Nith into the Solway Firth about by road from the ...
to solicitor William Wallace and his wife Mary. He married Mary Bowes around 1831. He migrated to
New South Wales
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around 1841 and became a pastoralist and
squatter
Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...
, holding land in the
Monaro district. From 1866 until his death at
Braidwood in 1868, he was a member of the
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
.
References
1808 births
1868 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
Colony of New South Wales politicians
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