About Robert Burrowes
Lived 1825 – 1893 (aged 67–68). Robert Burrowes was a politician.
Robert Burrowes (1825 – 16 September 1893) was a politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He almost immediately afterwards left for the Bendigo (Sandhurst) diggings, where he took an active part in creating Sandhurst Municipality, and was chairman of the local council when the Bendigo railway line was established in 1862. From August 1881 to March 1883 he was Minister of Mines in the O'Loghlen Government. Burrowes married in 1858 Sarah Ellen, daughter of P. Vickery.
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Who was Robert Burrowes?
Australian politician
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Robert Burrowes was born in 1825.
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Robert Burrowes died on 16 September 1893.
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Robert Burrowes was a politician.
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