Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves

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name= Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves
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nationality=Australian
order=7th Mayor of Melbourne
term_start=1849
term_end=1850
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predecessor=William Montgomerie Bell
successor= William Nicholson
birth_date=Birth date|1806|9|7|df=yes
birth_place=Knaresborough, United Kingdom
death_date=Death date and age|1874|5|23|1806|9|7|df=yes
death_place=Melbourne, Australia
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Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves (7 September 1806 - 23 May 1874) was former Mayor of Melbourne and Member of Parliament in Melbourne, Australia.

He was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England and emigrated to the Port Phillip District in New South Wales in 1840. He was a surgeon, publican and local councillor and was the Mayor of the City of Melbourne between 1849 and 1850. He was also, for a short time, the editor of the Port Phillip Gazette and the Melbourne Morning Herald.

Greeves was an MLC in Victoria from 1853 to 1856 and an MLA from 1856 to 1861 and from 1864 to 1865. He died in Melbourne on the 23rd of May, 1874 at the age of 67 and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery.

References

* [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/explore/A040332e.htm Australian Biography Online: Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves]
* [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=408 Parliament of Victoria - re-member: Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves]
* [http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/IGI/individual_record.asp?recid=500173082549&lds=1&region=2&regionfriendly=British+Isles&frompage=99 FamilySearch International Genealogical Index v5.0]