Nehemiah Guthridge (c.1808 - 27 June 1878),[1] was an Irish-born Melbourne ironmonger, a city councillor in Melbourne, a parliamentarian representing the Central Province (November 1856 to August 1858)[1] in the Legislative Council, a prominent Wesleyan and the first mayor of Sale in 1863.
[1] Guthridge and William Nicholson were among the first promoters of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Company, also providing funding for the initial survey.
He also provided considerable financing for the Ballarat and Geelong railway projects.
The family arrived in June 1841 as bounty immigrants (under a scheme first proposed by Edward Gibbon Wakefield) at Port Phillip from Liverpool via Rio de Janeiro aboard the H.M.S.
[2] Guthridge died on 27 June 1878 at Emerald Hill, Victoria.