James Bligh

James William Bligh (1810 – 1 December 1869) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born at Bodmin in Cornwall to conveyancer John Martyn Bligh and Mary Edyreun Hocking. He was a solicitor, and migrated to South Australia in 1839. He moved to Sydney and practised as a solicitor from 1841. He ceased practising due to ill health in the early 1850s, and from 1851 to 1856 was an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. He served in the reconstituted Council from 1856 to 1859, and was the first chairman of Willoughby Council from 1865 to 1867. Bligh died at Woolloomooloo in 1869.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Parliament of New South Wales (2008). "Mr James William Bligh (1810-1869)". Former Members. Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
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