John Darvall
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Sir John Darvall |
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| Solicitor-General | |
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In office 6 June 1856 – 25 August 1856 |
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| Preceded by | First Appointment |
| Succeeded by | Alfred Lutwyche |
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In office 3 October 1856 – 23 May 1857 |
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| Preceded by | Alfred Lutwyche |
| Succeeded by | Edward Wise |
| 8th Attorney General of New South Wales | |
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In office 26 May 1857 – 7 September 1857 |
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| Preceded by | William Manning |
| Succeeded by | James Martin |
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In office 1 August 1863 – 15 October 1863 |
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| Preceded by | John Hargrave |
| Succeeded by | James Martin |
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In office 3 February 1865 – 20 June 1865 |
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| Preceded by | James Martin |
| Succeeded by | John Plunkett |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
John Bayley Darvall 19 November 1809 Felixkirk, Yorkshire, England |
| Died | 28 December 1883 (aged 74) London, England |
Sir John Bayley Darvall KCMG (19 November 1809 – 28 December 1883) was an Australian barrister and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865. He held the positions of Solicitor-General and Attorney General of New South Wales in a number of short-lived colonial governments.
Darvall was born into an upper-middle class Yorkshire family and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently, he was articled to his uncle, Sir John Bayley at the Middle Temple and was called to the English Bar in 1838. He emigrated to Sydney in 1839 and established a large, private legal practice. Darvall accrued significant agricultural and pastoral interests and was a director of several colonial companies, a number of which failed in the depression of the early 1840s. He declined a judgeship in Victoria in 1851 and was appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 1853, a CMG in 1869 and a KCMG in 1877. Darvall returned to England in 1865 and continued in legal practice. He was a great-uncle of Banjo Paterson and related through marriage to Edmund Barton.
On 24 July 1844, prior to the establishment of responsible self-government, Darvall was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council. He was a loyal supporter of the government until, unable to support the continuing nomination of members, he resigned in 1848. He was then elected to the Council, initially for the seat of Bathurst (County) and between 1851 and 1856 as the member for Cumberland (County). Darvall styled himself as a "Patrician Liberal" and was a supporter of John Dunmore Lang and Charles Cowper. He opposed the 1853 Constitution Bill of William Charles Wentworth because of its provision for an hereditary upper house.
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