Edward Nucella Emmett

Edward Nucella Emmett (18 February 1817 – 18 March 1874 ) was an English-born Australian entrepreneur and politician, and briefly a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. He lived in Bendigo from 1852 to 1870, working firstly as a gold digger and then as an auctioneer. He was said to have discovered the Hustler's Reef near Bendigo. With Hugh Smith, he established the Bendigo Bank (subsequently purchased by the then Bank of Victoria).

He went to Sydney after 1870, where he was a broker, legal manager and mining agent. to September 1853, but resigned in early September, after being rejected by a gold diggers' meeting and may never have taken his seat. and Mary Elizabeth Thompson Emmett (née Townsend) who immigrated to Van Diemen's Land from England with their young family in 1819, fifteen years after the establishment of Hobart Town (1804).

He had two families in South Australia, abandoning his common law wife, Sarah Ann Dolby, and their three children before the end of 1856. He had married Sarah Spottiswood Blackham in 1849 and moved with her to Bendigo (then called Sandhurst).

After his death, his widow and their only surviving daughter, Bertha, returned to Bendigo, where in 1876 it became known that they were in straitened circumstance with a number of gifts made to them. Later in that year she married Archibald Forsyth.