Robert Homburg (10 March 1848 – 23 March 1912) was a politician and judge in colonial

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. He was a member of the

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from 1884 to 1905, representing the electorates of

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(1884-1902) and

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(1902-1905). He was

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from 1901 to 1902 and

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from 1890 to 1892, 1892 to 1893 and 1904 to 1905. His sons

Hermann Homburg Hermann Robert Homburg (17 March 1874 – 12 December 1964) was a South Australian politician and lawyer. Early life Homburg was born in Norwood and educated at Prince Alfred College and the University of Adelaide. Following his admission to t ...

and Robert Homburg Jr. also served in the House of Assembly, with Hermann also being a long-serving minister. Homburg was born in Brunswick,

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, Germany, the son of Wilhelm Homburg (died 1860), a grain merchant, and his wife Caroline Magdalene Pauline. Homburg arrived in South Australia in the year 1857. He was employed in a land agency business until 1868, when he was articled to

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. The last two years of his articles were served in the office of Sir John Downer, and he was admitted to the bar in April 1874. Homburg was elected to the

as a representative for

in April 1884, and at the election of 1887 was re-elected with the Sir

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. In April 1890 he was again returned with

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. In 1880 for a short period he was president of the German Club. He was appointed

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in Thomas Playford's second Ministry in August 1890, and held office till June 1892, when he retired with his colleagues. Homburg was again Attorney-General from 15 October 1892 to 16 June 1893 and from 4 July 1904 to 24 February 1905 (also being Minister of Education in the latter term). Homburg held the seat of Gumeracha until its abolition at the 1902 election. Homburg served as the tenth

from 1901 to 1902. Homburg represented the Assembly for

from 1902 until the 1905 election. Homburg was appointed a justice of the

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in 1905. He died in

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on 23 March 1912; he was survived by a total of four sons and four daughters from his two marriages. The two children of his first marriage, sons Hermann (1874-1964) and Robert junior followed him as lawyers and parliamentarians.

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