The Honourable Morgan Augustus McDonnell (1824 – 23 September 1889) was a politician in colonial

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, Attorney-General of Victoria 1868 and 1869–70. McDonnell was the eldest son of Michael Cypryan McDonnell, of Douay, France. He entered as a student at

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in May 1851, and was called to the bar in January 1855. He emigrated to Victoria in 1864, and in the following year was elected to the

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for Villiers and Heytesbury. He was Attorney-General in the

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Ministry from 6 May to 11 July 1868, and in that of

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from 20 September 1869 to 9 April 1870. McDonnell, who was the father of the well-known cricketer, Percy Stanislaus McDonnell, immediately afterwards retired from public life, and died on 23 September 1889.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:McDonnell, Morgan Augustus 1824 births 1889 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Attorneys-General of the Colony of Victoria 19th-century Australian politicians Attorneys-General of Victoria