Samuel Barnes (Australian politician)

Samuel Barnes (c. 1865 – 13 March 1951) was an English-born Australian politician.

He was born in Cornwall to miner Samuel Meyn Barnes and Jane Mitchell.[1] He was a timber worker, and after suffering a serious leg injury emigrated to Victoria around 1886. He worked for the Treasury Department before becoming a mine manager at Walhalla. He held a supervisory position during the construction of the Long Tunnel mines, and served on the Walhalla Shire Council from 1905 to 1910 (president 1909–10).[1]

In 1910, Barnes was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Walhalla[2] as a Liberal, later transitioning to the Nationalist Party. He was briefly a minister without portfolio from 18 September 1917 to 29 November 1917, and served as Minister of Railways and Mines from 21 March 1918 tp 7 September 1923.[2] He lost his seat to a Country Party candidate in March 1927[2] and retired from politics. Barnes died in Fitzroy in 1951.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ a b c Barnes, Samuel at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 September 2012(Date mismatch))
  2. ^ a b c d "Samuel Barnes". Members of Parliament. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 13 August 2025.
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