James Eve

He was born at Maldon in Essex to farmer James Eve and Lilian Dowsett.

He arrived in New South Wales around 1861, worked for a period as a porter and then became a tobacconist at Enfield.

On 28 August 1865 he married Martha Nairn at Redfern; they had ten children.

Whilst he was a Free Trader, he was not one of the four candidates nominated by the party,[3] and was supported by a local branch, the Canterbury Electoral Freetrade Council.

[6][7] He did not contest the 1894 election, but ran unsuccessfully in 1895 (Marrickville), 1898 (Burwood) and 1907 (Ashfield).