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James Patterson (Australian politician)
Australian colonial politician (1833–1895)
Not to be confused with James Paterson (Australian politician).
Sir James Brown PattersonKCMG (18 November 1833[1] – 30 October 1895),[2] was an Australian politician who served as premier of Victoria from 1893 to 1894.
Patterson was born in 1833 at Patterson Cottage, Alnwick, Northumberland, England to James Patterson, contractor, and Agnes, née Brown.[3] Patterson emigrated to Victoria in 1852 to seek his fortune on the goldfields.[1] After a few years as a digger and four as a farmer, he settled in Chewton, where he went into business as a butcher, later moving into real estate.
He was Mayor of Chewton for four years before he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Castlemaine in 1870.
A moderate conservative, Patterson served in the second third governments of the liberal leader Graham Berry, as commissioner for public works in Au