Matthew Henry Marsh

Matthew Henry Marsh (1810—1881) was a politician in Great Britain and New South Wales and a Queensland pioneer pastoralist.

He was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1836, after which he was a barrister on the Western Circuit and at the Wiltshire Assizes.

[2] However, he did not have a very successful practice as a barrister and so on the advice of his uncle he emigrated to New South Wales.

[3] Marsh was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council 1 September 1851 to 31 March 1855 for the Pastoral Districts of New England and Macleay, where he was a strong advocate of establishing a separate colony in Northern Australia (which would include the New England and Darling Downs districts where his pastoral assets were located).

[2] In 1855, he returned to England, where he was elected in 1857 to the House of Commons as the representative for Salisbury, where he continued to advocate for the new colony.