Robert Sacheverell Wilmot Sitwell (23 November 1823 – 15 November 1912) was an Australian politician, a 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 ...

and Solicitor-General. Sitwell was the son of the late Robert Sacheverell Sitwell, of

Morley, Derbyshire Morley is a village and civil parish within the Borough of Erewash in Derbyshire, England. It is on the eastern side of Morley Moor, with Morley Smithy to the north. The parish church of St Matthew is a grade I listed building and stands near th ...

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, by Charlotte Anne, daughter of Francis Bradshaw, was educated at

Brasenose College, Oxford Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...

where he matriculated in June 1841, and graduated B.A. in 1845. He entered at the

Middle Temple The Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, commonly known simply as Middle Temple, is one of the four Inns of Court exclusively entitled to call their members to the English Bar as barristers, the others being the Inner Temple, Gray's Inn an ...

in April 1846, and was

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in May 1849. Sitwell emigrated to Australia, and was admitted to the Victorian bar in February 1853. He was Solicitor-General in the first responsible ministry formed in Victoria, from 25 February 1857 to 11 March 1857. Sitwell returned to England around 1859 and married, on 18 December 1861, Mary Blanch daughter of John Senior, of Birkenhead and subsequently resided in England. Sitwell took part in politics in

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and died in

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, England.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sitwell, Robert Sacheverell Wilmot 1823 births 1912 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly People from the Borough of Erewash Solicitors-General of Victoria 19th-century Australian businesspeople