Charles Don
Charles Jardine Don (12 June 1820 – 27 September 1866) was a politician in colonial Victoria.[1]
Don was born in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, son of William Don and his wife Jeanette, née Rattery.[1] Don was apprenticed to a hand-loom weaver.[2] He took part in the Chartist movement in 1842, and in 1853 emigrated to Victoria, where he worked as a stonemason.[2]
Don was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Collingwood in October 1859 and 1861, losing the 1864 election.[3] Don, who was regarded as a working-class champion, and who was a strenuous advocate of the liberalisation of the land laws.[2] Don died in Collingwood, Victoria on 27 September 1866, survived by a daughter of his first marriage and a son.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Merrifield, S. "Don, Charles Jardine (1820–1866)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
- ^ a b c Mennell, Philip (1892). . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ "Charles Jardine Don". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Archived from the original on 23 April 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
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