ASP IN ALL

Butler Cole ( son of Rev. James Asp in all, R. of Althorpe, Lincs. ) b. Liverpool 7 Nov. 1830; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s; connected with Morning Chronicle ; barrister M.T. 17 Nov. 1853; arrived in Victoria 1854; law reporter to the Argus paper 1854; practised at Melbourne 1854; M.L.A. for Talbot 1856; M.L.A. for Portland to 1870; member of the Heales government 1861, of the Macpherson government 1869; defended the Eureka stockade rioters 1855; defended H. J. O’Farrell who was tried 30–31 March 1868 for shooting Prince Alfred (Duke of Edinburgh) at Clontarf 12 March 1868; became insane 1871. d. England 4 April 1875.