Division Of Higinbotham
The Division of Higinbotham was an Divisions of the Australian House of Representatives, Australian Electoral Division in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The division was created in 1949 and abolished in 1969, when it was renamed Division of Hotham, Hotham. It was named for George Higinbotham, a leading Victorian colonial politician and judge. It was located in the south-eastern suburbs of Melbourne, including Bentleigh, Victoria, Bentleigh, Highett, Victoria, Highett, Moorabbin, Victoria, Moorabbin and Sandringham, Victoria, Sandringham. It was a fairly safe seat for the Liberal Party of Australia, Liberal Party. Members Election results

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George Higinbotham
George Higinbotham (19 April 1826 – 31 December 1892) was a politician and was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian colony (and later, State) of Victoria. Early life George Higinbotham was the sixth son (and youngest of eight) of Henry Higinbotham, a merchant at Dublin, and Sarah Wilson, daughter of Joseph Wilson, a man of Scottish ancestry who had gone to America and became an American citizen after the War of Independence and returned to Dublin as American consul. George Higinbotham was educated at the Royal School Dungannon, and having gained a Queen's scholarship of £50 a year, entered at Trinity College, Dublin. Higinbotham qualified for the degree of B.A. in 1849 and M.A. in 1853, after a good but undistinguished course, and proceeded to London where he soon became a parliamentary reporter on the Morning Chronicle. Higinbotham entered himself as a student at Lincoln's Inn on 20 April 1848, and on ...
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