James George Membrey (23 March 1862 – 12 November 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born in

Buninyong Buninyong is a town 11 km from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia. The town is on the Midland Highway, south of Ballarat on the road to Geelong. Buninyong was proclaimed a town on 27 June 1851 on the same day as Winchelsea, Portarlington, L ...

to storekeeper James Membrey and Mary Anne Hadley, but he grew up in Napoleons and Ballarat. He worked as a plasterer at Northcote and from 1891 was a valuer and collector for Northcote Town Council. On 27 April 1886 he married Elizabeth Pearse Carvosse, with whom he had five children. In 1907 he was elected to the

Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presidin ...

for Jika Jika. Although he was a Liberal, he opposed

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's government in 1908. He served as a minister without portfolio from 1914 to 1917, when he left parliament. Membrey died in Preston in 1940.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Membrey, James 1862 births 1940 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly People from Buninyong Colony of Victoria people