Bryan O'Loghlen

Bryan O'Loghlen

Infobox_Premier
name =Bryan O'Loghlen
nationality =Australian
order =13th Premier of Victoria
term_start =9 July 1881
term_end =8 March 1883
predecessor =Graham Berry
successor =James Service
deputy =



caption =
birth_date =27 June 1828
birth_place =Dublin, ireland
death_date =death date and age|1905|10|31|1828|6|27|df=y
death_place =St Kilda, Melbourne, Victoria
constituency =
party =
spouse = Ella
profession =
religion =Catholic


footnotes =

Sir Bryan O'Loghlen, 3rd Baronet (pronounced and sometimes spelled Brian O'Lochlen) (27 June 182831 October 1905), Australian colonial politician, was the 13th Premier of Victoria.

O'Loghlen was born in County Clare, Ireland, a son of the distinguished Irish judge Sir Michael O'Loghlen, 1st Baronet, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and was admitted to the Irish Bar in 1856.

In 1862 he emigrated to Victoria and was appointed a Crown Prosecutor in 1863. He succeeded to his father's baronetcy in 1877 on the death of his brother, Colman, and in the same year he was elected, "in absentia", to the House of Commons for County Clare, replacing his brother, but did not take his seat.

In 1878 O'Loghlen, a recognised leader of the Irish Catholic community in Victoria, was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for West Melbourne. In 1880 he transferred to West Bourke, which he held until 1883.

O'Loghlen was a radical liberal in Victorian politics: he favoured breaking up the estates of the landowning class (who were mainly English and Scottish Protestants) to provide land for small farmers, and ending the power of the landowner-dominated Victorian Legislative Council.

He also wanted government aid for Roman Catholic schools, but not if this meant government supervision of what they taught. He served as Attorney-General in the reforming ministry of Graham Berry from 1878 to 1880, and was a loyal supporter of Berry in his struggles with the Council and the conservatives it represented.

When Berry's third government resigned in July 1881, O'Loghlen succeeded him as leader of the liberal forces and became Premier - the second Irish Catholic to hold the position. His government was described as "unspectacular", and "a collection of party rebels, Catholics and opportunists." Much of the radical impetus of the Berry years had passed and O'Loghlen's government achieved little. In 1883 a scandal arose over the activities of Railways Minister Thomas Bent, who was accused of corruption. At the March 1883 election the liberals were defeated and O'Loghlen lost his seat.

In 1888 O'Loghlen returned to politics as member for Belfast, which he held until 1889, when the seat was renamed Port Fairy, which he represented 1889 - 1894, and, again, from 1897 - 1900. He was Attorney-General again, albeit only for one year, in the Patterson government (1893 - 1894).

He died aged 77 in 1905.

References

*Geoff Browne, "A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament, 1900-84", Government Printer, Melbourne, 1985
*Don Garden, "Victoria: A History", Thomas Nelson, Melbourne, 1984
*Kathleen Thompson and Geoffrey Serle, "A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament, 1856-1900", Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972
* Raymond Wright, "A People's Counsel. A History of the Parliament of Victoria, 1856-1990", Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992


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