Arthur Blyth

The Honourable
Sir Arthur Blyth
KCMG, CB
The Honourable Sir Arthur Blyth KCMG, CB
9th Premier of South Australia
	In office; 4 August 1864 – 22 March 1865
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir Dominick Daly
Preceded by	Henry Ayers
Succeeded by	Francis Dutton
	In office; 10 November 1871 – 22 January 1872
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir James Fergusson
Preceded by	John Hart
Succeeded by	Sir Henry Ayers
	In office; 22 July 1873 – 3 June 1875
Monarch	Victoria
Governor	Sir Anthony Musgrave
Preceded by	Sir Henry Ayers
Succeeded by	James Boucaut
Personal details
Born	19 March 1823; Birmingham
Died	7 December 1891 (aged 68); Bournemouth
Spouse	Jessie Ann Forrest (m. 1850–1891; his death)
Occupation	Politician

Sir Arthur Blyth KCMG, CB (19 March 1823 – 7 December 1891)^[1] was Premier of South Australia three times; 1864–65, 1871–72 and 1873–75.

Family

Arthur's younger brother, Neville Blyth, had a significant political career, being first elected to the House of Assembly for the seat of East Torrens in 1860.

Arthur Blyth married Jessie Ann Forrest (1827–21 December 1891), a daughter of Edward Forrest of Birmingham, on 5 March 1850; she died two weeks after her husband.

Emily Grant Blyth (died 31 December 1926) married Robert Grant Murray R.N.R. on 23 August 1893
(John) James Neville Blyth (20 November 1850 – ), married Elizabeth Emma Hawker (daughter of James Collins Hawker and granddaughter of Thomas Lipson) on 11 June 1873. In 1885 he was jailed for a year for passing valueless cheques.^[2] The couple divorced in 1908.
Frances Eleanor Blyth (9 February 1855 – ) married Wiliam Briggs Sells on 16 January 1877.

Recognition

The Hundred of Blyth (SA) in the Mid North of South Australia, and hence the later township of Blyth, was named for him in 1860 by Governor MacDonnell.

The Blyth River in the Northern Territory was named after him by Francis Cadell in 1867.^[3] The Hundred of Blyth (NT) was also named for him in 1871.

He was knighted KCMG in 1877 and appointed CB in 1886.^[4]

The Hundred of Jessie and possibly the ceased government town of Jessie were named for his wife.^[5]^[6]

Notes

↑ Bowes, Keith R. "Blyth, Sir Arthur (1823–1891)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
↑ "Intercolonial Telegrams". The Argus. Melbourne. 28 February 1885. p. 9. Retrieved 14 February 2013 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "Place Names Register Extract – Blyth River". NT Place Names Register. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 2 May 2015.
↑ "Honours to Agents-General". Evening Journal. Vol. XVIII, no. 5319. Adelaide. 28 June 1886. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
↑ "Search results for 'Hundred of Jessie, HD' with the following datasets selected - 'Suburbs and Localities', 'Government Towns', 'Hundreds' and 'Gazetteer'". Location SA Map Viewer. South Australian Government. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
↑ "The Death of the Township of Jessie". The Narracoorte Herald. Vol. LI, no. 5, 462. South Australia. 22 February 1929. p. 4. Retrieved 24 February 2018 – via National Library of Australia.

References

Blyth, Arthur. "Blyth, Sir Arthur (1823–1891)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943.
Harris, Charles Alexander (1901). "Blyth, Arthur" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Family

Recognition

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