John Dunstan Baragwanath (1817 – 22 January 1885)
was a miner and politician in colonial
Victoria, a member of the
Victorian Legislative Assembly.
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Baragwanath was born in ]St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives ( kw, Porth Ia, meaning "Ia of Cornwall, St Ia's cove") is a seaside town, civil parish and port in Cornwall, England. The town lies north of Penzance and west of Camborne on the coast of the Celtic Sea. In former times it was commerci ...
, England, the son of John Dunstan Baragwanath Senior and his wife Mary, ''nee'' Quick.[
Baragwanath the younger arrived in Victoria in the early 1850s and worked on the goldfields.][
In November 1856, Baragwanath was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Rodney,][ a position he held until resigning in December 1857.][
Baragwanath died in Inglewood, Victoria, on 22 January 1885.][
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1817 births
1885 deaths
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
People from St Ives, Cornwall
Australian people of Cornish descent
British emigrants to Australia
19th-century Australian politicians