William Kaye (c.1820 – 10 May 1893) was a politician in colonial Victoria, member for Eastern Province in the Victorian Legislative Council.
[1] Kaye was born in Yorkshire, England, and arrived in Port Phillip District in February 1842.
[1] He was a partner in a Melbourne firm of squatters' auctioneers, Kaye and Butchart.
[1] He had been found guilty by a committee of the Legislative Council, following a petition by William Highett, alleging that Kaye's payment of £200 to an election agent to campaign for him in the electorate had amounted to bribery.
The payment was found to have "induced [the agent] to exert a corrupt influence upon the election, by other means than the giving of money".