Australian MP 1892 - 1894
Philip Melville Salmon was not the man whom we named a street after on the Lawe, South Shields. However, he was born here on 16th. November 1849.
At the age of twelve he emigrated with his parents Benjamin, an engineer, and Eleanor, to the town of Bendigo in Australia. He later went on to Port Melbourne where he took a job in the sugar works before buying a business in Bay Street. After moving on to Footscray he became the proprietor of the local newspaper The Advertiser and an auctioneer and estate agent, he later returned to Port Melbourne and bought The Standard. Having married Emma Jane Ludner, the Church of England stalwart businessman and his family of four sons and three daughters alternated between Port Melbourne and Footscray, as they prospered.
He was Mayor of Port Melbourne from 1890 -1891 and Member of the Victorian Parliament from1892 - 1894 representing Port Melbourne, having previously contested two other elections in 1886 and 1889. Salmon died at the age of sixty in 1909.
Just another interesting character from South Shields who might be of interest to our Australian cousins.
If any of our readers have some anecdotal evidence of other South Shields born politicians who have made their mark elsewhere I’d be interested in hearing from them (we are already aware that Sir William Fox was Prime minister of New Zealand, and that my mother’s uncle Baron Blyton served as Member of Parliament for Houghton-le-Spring)
Update 23:20
Bob Smith was elected 19th President of the Legislative Council of Victoria on 19th. December 2006. Bob was born in South Shields, England on 22 May 1948
James Hiers McColl 1844 - 1929 emigrated from South Shields to Australia in 1853 and became a prominent Australian politician and minister prior to the first World War.
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