William Kaye (c.1820 – 10 May 1893) was a politician in colonial

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, member for Eastern Province in the

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. Kaye was born in Yorkshire, England, and arrived in

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in February 1842. He was a partner in a

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firm of squatters' auctioneers, Kaye and Butchart. He was elected to the first wholly elective Legislative Council for Eastern Province, being sworn-in on 1 November 1856. Kaye was disqualified from the Council on 1 February 1857 for bribery under the Election Act. He had been found guilty by a committee of the Legislative Council, following a petition by

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, alleging that Kaye's payment of £200 to an election agent to campaign for him in the electorate had amounted to bribery. The payment was found to have "induced he agentto exert a corrupt influence upon the election, by other means than the giving of money".

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kaye, William 1820s births 1893 deaths 19th-century Australian politicians Members of the Victorian Legislative Council People from Yorkshire English emigrants to Australia