Robert Pohlman

[1] The following year the brothers purchased a portion of Darlington Station near Kyneton, north-west of Melbourne, where they ran several thousand sheep.

[1] After the creation of the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Phillip, and the appointment of Justice John Willis as Resident Judge, Pohlman was admitted to the local bar, one of the first six barristers admitted in Port Phillip (along with Edward Brewster, Redmond Barry, James Croke, Archibald Cuninghame and James Murray).

[3] Pohlman had a similar background to these other lawyers, and together "they acted as an informal Senior Common Room in the 1840s, dining and socialising together and generally supportive of their own brand of legal manners.

[3] In addition to his private practice, Pohlman was appointed the Commissioner of Insolvent Estates in 1846, and the Master in Equity in July 1851.

[1][4] Pohlman was selected by Lieutenant-Governor La Trobe on 31 October 1851[5] to fill one of the nominee positions in the Victorian Legislative Council when that body was created; he was sworn-in in November 1851.