Edward Combes

Edward Combes CMG (6 September 1830 – 18 October 1895) was an engineer, pastoralist, politician and painter.

Four years later he was appointed Government Mining Engineer, and was returned to the Assembly as the member for Bathurst in 1872 and for Orange in 1875.

[3] Combes was Secretary for Public Works in the fourth Robertson ministry from August to December 1877, and in the following year was appointed Executive Commissioner for New South Wales at the Paris International Exhibition, his seat in Parliament being declared vacant because that was held to be an office of profit under the Crown.

[1][2] He was re-elected to parliament as the member for East Macquarie in August 1879, holding the seat until 1885.

He was also an artist of considerable merit, and had exhibited with success at some of the leading London galleries.