Alexander Fyfe

Alexander Fyfe (1826 – 2 May 1903) was a Scottish-born settler of Victoria, Australia, who became a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Victorian Legislative Council and the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He married Jane Nicholson Bailliff in 1854.

In Geelong, he was involved in the establishment of the: first building society the first bathing house the Geelong Chamber of Commerce the fire brigade a newspaper the Mechanic's Institute the first regatta (he owned four full-rigged vessels and chartered eleven more)

He was president of the: Mechanic's Institute the first cricket club in Victoria Geelong Agricultural Society and a director/trustee of: the Geelong Botanic Gardens the Flinders State School the Geelong-Melbourne railway and captain of the first volunteer regiment. and contributed to legal expenses of the trial of Peter Lalor, the leader of the Eureka Rebellion a position he held until the original Council was abolished in 1856.

Latter life

Fyfe returned to Melbourne around 1873 and died in Preston, Victoria on 2 May 1903.