John Murphy (1821 – 24 June 1883) was an English-born Australian politician. 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 1843 and became a pastoralist. On 22 February 1855 he married Mary Albon, with whom he had six children. By 1866 he owned Kybean station in the Monaro district. In 1877 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 Monaro, but he did not re-contest in 1880. Murphy died at Bibbenluke in 1883.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, John 1821 births 1883 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians