James Norton Jr., (5 December 1824 – 18 July 1906),[1] was a solicitor and member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.[2]

Norton was born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, the eldest son of James Norton, also a member of the Legislative Council and solicitor in large practice in Sydney, by his first wife, Jane, daughter of Alexander Kenneth Mackenzie.[3]

Norton was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in October 1879,[4] and was Postmaster-General in the Stuart ministry from May 1884 to October 1885.[3] He served in the council until his death in 1906.[2]

Norton practised as a solicitor in Sydney, being a Fellow of St Paul's College within the University of Sydney and a trustee of the Free Public Library and Australian Museum. He married first, at Longford, Tasmania, in June 1854, Harriott Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Walker, Deputy Assistant Commissary-General of New South Wales (who died in 1860); and, secondly, at Sydney, in December 1862, Isabella, eldest daughter of Rev. William Stephens, of Levens, Westmoreland.[3]

Norton was a member of the Royal Society of New South Wales from 1873, and was a founder of Linnean Society of New South Wales in 1875, president in 1899 and 1900,[1] and the orchid Adenochilus nortonii was named in his honour.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Allars, K. G. "Norton, James (1824–1906)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Mr James Norton (junior), (1824-1906)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Mennell, Philip (1892). "Norton, Hon. James" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
  4. ↑ "Summons: Legislative Council". New South Wales Government Gazette. No. 359. 7 October 1879. p. 4477. Retrieved 30 June 2020 – via Trove.
  5. ↑ "Norton, James (1824-1906)". Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

 

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