John Henry Mercer (4 January 1823 – 8 December 1891) was a landowner, pastoralist and politician in colonial

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. Mercer born in Midlothian, Scotland, the son of George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid. Mercer was a pastoralist with his brother

George Duncan Mercer George Duncan Mercer (27 December 1814 – 25 July 1884) was a landowner and pastoralist in colonial Victoria, Australia. Mercer was born in India, the son of George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid. Mercer, with his cousin Willia ...

and cousin William Drummond Mercer in properties near

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. Mercer was elected to the district of

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in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council on 16 September 1851. Mercer left the Council in December 1852, he became commissioner of insolvent estates and chairman of the water commission. In 1857 Mercer had the Gheringhap freehold mapped as the Dryden estate. Mercer later returned to Scotland where he married Anne Catherine Anstruther on 11 December 1861. Mercer died in Huntingtower, Perthshire on 8 December 1891.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mercer, John Henry 1823 births 1891 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians