James Pemell (1816 – 26 March 1906) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to baker James Pemell and his wife Maria. He migrated to

New South Wales New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a States and territories of Australia, state on the Eastern states of Australia, east coast of :Australia. It borders Queensland to the north, Victoria (state), Victoria to the south, and South ...

around 1836 and like his father worked as a baker. On 24 December 1839 he married widow Jane Fish, with whom he had three children. In 1859 he was elected to the

New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House ...

for West Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1860. He returned to the Assembly for

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in 1865, but resigned in 1869. Pemell died at Newtown in 1906.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pemell, James 1816 births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians