Edward Brewster

Edward Jones Brewster (c.1812[1][2] – 17 March 1898) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.

[1] Soon afterwards he came to Melbourne, and having good letters of introduction from the great Earl of Derby and others, he was, within a fortnight of his landing, made Chairman of Quarter Sessions and Commissioner of the Court of Requests.

[4] Brewster was elected to New South Wales Legislative Council as member for Port Phillip District (later to become the separate colony of Victoria) on 1 January 1846, a position he held until 1 February 1848.

[3] On his return to England Brewster went up to Oxford in 1853,[1] studied for the Anglican ministry, and was ordained the same year.

His younger brother John Grey Brewster had died the previous year at his home in Cheltenham, leaving issue.