Henry John Bede Milford (1 January 1833 – 29 February 1888) was a politician in

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, Australia. He was a Member of both the

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and the

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Early life and career

Born in England the youngest son of

Samuel Milford Samuel Frederick Milford (16 September 1797 – 26 May 1865) was a barrister and judge, active in colonial New South Wales from 1843, a judge of Supreme Court of New South Wales. Milford was born in Exeter, Devon, England, the eldest son of Sa ...

, Milford moved to

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, Australia, with his parents in 1843. He became an articled clerk before being admitted as a

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in 1855. He practised in Sydney until 1867. He was married to Catherine Charlotte Dick and had three sons and a daughter. Their son Ernest Alexander Milford (19 December 1858 – 2 October 1942), was a lawyer in Queensland and New South Wales.

Politics

He represented the

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in the

from 3 February 1864 to 10 November 1864. He represented the

electoral district of Rockhampton Rockhampton is an Queensland Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Queensland. Wedged between the electoral districts of Elector ...

from 6 December 1869 to 7 June 1870. Winning the seat in a

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, he resigned before ever taking his seat.

Later life

Milford died in hospital on 29 February 1888, according to the ''Charters Towers Daily Herald'' (2 March 1888), of "excess drink and exposure".

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Milford, Henry Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1888 deaths Politicians from the Colony of Queensland Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1830s births