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Wyman Brown (1836 – 7 November 1899) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at
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in
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to wood stapler John Brown and Sarah Finnis. He migrated to
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in 1858, and became a miner on the Peel River. On 11 March 1863 he married Mary Ellen Smith; they had no children. From 1874 he was the Peel River's elected representative on the New South Wales Mining Board. In 1880 he became a warden at the goldfields, and from 1884 he was a police magistrate at
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, moving to
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the following year. In 1889 he was elected to the
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as the Protectionist member for Sturt, but he did not contest the 1891 election. Brown died at Balmain in 1899.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Brown, Wyman 1836 births 1899 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians