About Charles Don
Lived 1820 – 1866 (aged 46). Charles Don was a politician.
Charles Jardine Don (12 June 1820 – 27 September 1866) was a politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.
Don was born in Coupar Angus, Perthshire, Scotland, son of William Don and his wife Jeanette, née Rattery.
Don was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Collingwood in October 1859 and 1861, losing the 1864 election. Don, who was regarded as a working-class champion, and who was a strenuous advocate of the liberalisation of the land laws. Don died in Collingwood, Victoria on 27 September 1866, survived by a daughter of his first marriage and a son.
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