John Nimmo (politician)
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John Nimmo (20 October 1819 – 11 March 1904) J.P., C.E., was an Australian politician and member of 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 presiding ...
. Nimmo was born at
Catrine Catrine is a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland which was formerly a centre of cotton manufacture. It has a population of around () Geography The village lies on the River Ayr which previously provided water power for local industry. It is in t ...
,
Ayrshire Ayrshire ( gd, Siorrachd Inbhir Àir, ) is a historic county and registration county in south-west Scotland, located on the shores of the Firth of Clyde. Its principal towns include Ayr, Kilmarnock and Irvine and it borders the counties of Re ...
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, and was educated as an engineer. He arrived in
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in 1853, and was for some years town surveyor of Emerald Hill, of which municipality he was subsequently mayor, and which he represented in the Assembly from May 1877 to March 1889, when he was returned for Albert Park. Nimmo, who was a moderate Liberal and Protectionist, and a strong advocate of temperance, was
Commissioner of Public Works The Walsh Act is a legislation in the U.S. state of New Jersey that permits municipalities to adopt a non-partisan commission form of government. The legislation was signed by Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson on April 25, 1911. The commissi ...
in the Gillies Government from February 1886 to June 1889, when he resigned. He was for some time representative of the Government on the Melbourne Harbour Trust. At the general election in April 1892 Nimmo lost his seat. After losing the 1892 election, Nimmo returned to Catrine and retired, dying there on 11 March 1904.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nimmo, John 1819 births 1904 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Australian people of Scottish descent 19th-century Australian politicians Ministers for Public Works (Victoria) People from Catrine