Patrick O'Sullivan (14 March 1818 – 29 February 1904) was a member of the

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Biography

O'Sullivan was born in Castlemaine,

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, the son of William O'Sullivan, a soldier, and his wife Ellen (née Moriarty). O'Sullivan was also a soldier, and was stationed in London with his regiment when

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succeeded to the throne in 1837. In January the next year, however, he was sentenced to fifteen years transportation for assault, thus missing the

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by several months. He arrived at Sydney on 21 July 1838, sailing to Australia on the '' Bengal Merchant'' and went to work at

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.O'Sullivan, Patrick (1818–1904)
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Retrieved 2 July 2016. He was given a

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in 1845 for the Windsor District and later that year began hawking before settling in

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in 1847. He became a store-keeper in Ipswich and received a conditional pardon on 20 October 1849, eventually becoming a successful merchant. On 7 May 1851 he married Mary Real (died 1925)Family history research
— Queensland Births, deaths, marriages and divorces. Retrieved 3 July 2016. and together had seven sons and six daughters. O'Sullivan died of a stroke at his Woodend home and was buried in the

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Public career

O'Sullivan, along with

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and three time

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, won the three positions for the electoral district of

at the inaugural 1860 Queensland election. O'Sullivan was defeated at the 1863 election and four years later won a position on the electoral district of

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, also a three-member seat. He remained the member for just over a year, being defeated at the 1868 Queensland election. He was then out of politics until 1876 when, following the resignation of James Parker, he won the seat of

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at the 1876 by-election. He did not stand for re-election for Burke and instead won the seat of

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in 1878 before being defeated in 1883. He won the seat of Stanley again at the 1888 Queensland colonial election before retiring from politics in 1893. His son,

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, was a member of the

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and his grandson,

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, was a senator in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:OSullivan, Patrick (Queensland politician) Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1818 births 1904 deaths 19th-century Australian politicians Irish emigrants to colonial Australia