DRY

Sir Richard . b. Elphin near Launces ton, Tasmania 15 June 1815; member of council of Tasmania, Feb. 1844; member for Launces ton of legislative council 1851–62, for Tamar 1862 to death; speaker of council 30 Dec. 1851 to 1855; knighted by patent 12 March 1858; colonial secretary and premier 24 Nov. 1866 to death. d. Hobart Town 1 Aug. 1869. Fenton’s History of Tasmania (1884) 74, 338, 459.