Joseph Bosisto

Joseph Bosisto CMG, MLA JP (21 March 1827 – 8 November 1898), was a chemist and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia.

With assistance from Ferdinand von Mueller, the government botanist of the Colony of Victoria, Bosisto set up his first still in Dandenong, but ranged far afield to obtain suitable eucalyptus leaves for his product.

When Bosisto had financial difficulties in 1889, as a result of the collapse of the 1880s Land Boom,[3] he mortgaged his share to his partners.

He was a justice of the peace, president of the Technological Commission, and Examiner in Materia Medica and Botany at the Victorian College of Pharmacy.

In April 1892, Bosisto re-entered the Assembly as the member for Jolimont and West Richmond, serving until September 1894.