Charles Myles Officer

Charles Myles Officer (14 July 1827 – 1 February 1904) was an Australian grazier and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.^[1]

Officer, born at New Norfolk, Tasmania, was the third son of Sir Robert Officer.^[2] In 1848 he went to Port Phillip, now Victoria (Australia), where he engaged in pastoral pursuits at Mount Talbot, in the Wimmera district.^[2] He was returned to the Assembly for Dundas in 1880, and represented the constituency in the moderate Conservative interest until April 1892.^[1] He married first, in 1854, Christina Susannah, daughter of Daniel Robertson, of Launceston, Tasmania; and secondly, in 1876, Ellen Agnes, second daughter of the late Thomas Pope Besnard, of Inverell, New South Wales.^[2]

Officer suffered losses from drought on his West Darling properties; he was declared bankrupt in New South Wales on 25 June 1897.^[3]

References

1. "Officer, Charles Myles". Re-Member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
2. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Officer, Charles Myles" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
3. Hone, J. Ann. "Officer, Charles Myles (1827–1904)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 3 April 2013.