# Edwin Austin

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| birth_date       = 23 August 1860
| birth_place      = Barwon Park, [Winchelsea, Victoria](/source/Winchelsea%2C_Victoria)
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1909|November|30|1860|August|3|df=yes}}
| death_place      = [Stawell, Victoria](/source/Stawell%2C_Victoria)
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| constituency_AM5 = [Electoral district of Ripon and Hampden](/source/Electoral_district_of_Ripon_and_Hampden)
| assembly5        = Victorian Legislative
| term_start5      = May 1892
| term_end5        = October 1900
| predecessor5     = [William Uren](/source/William_Uren)
| successor5       = [David Oman](/source/David_Oman)

| office6      = Member of the [Victorian Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for [Nelson Province](/source/Nelson_Province_(Australia))
| term_start6  = October 1906
| term_end6    = November 1909
| alongside6   = [James Drysdale Brown](/source/James_Drysdale_Brown)
| predecessor6 = [Hans Irvine](/source/Hans_Irvine)
| successor6   = [Thomas Carthew Miners](/source/Thomas_Carthew_Miners)

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'''Edwin Henry Austin''' (23 August 1860 – 30 November 1909) was an Australian politician in the [Victorian Legislative Assembly](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Assembly). Austin served as the member for [Ripon and Hampden](/source/Electoral_district_of_Ripon_and_Hampden) between 1892 and 1900 and went on to serve in the [Legislative Council](/source/Victorian_Legislative_Council) for [Nelson Province](/source/Nelson_Province_(Australia)) between 1906 and 1909.<ref name="parliament-of-vic">{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile|name=Edwin Henry Austin|id=edwin-austin|access-date=2 April 2025}}</ref> Austin ran as a conservative.<ref name="ADoB" />

== Personal life ==
Austin was the second son of pastoralist [Thomas Austin](/source/Thomas_Austin_(pastoralist)) and Elizabeth Phillips Harding.<ref name="ADoB">{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography|title=Edwin Henry Austin (1860–1909)|last=Brown|first=P.L.|year=1979|volume=7|id2=austin-edwin-henry-5600|access-date=16 April 2025}}</ref> Austin's father is noted as the person who introduced [rabbits into Australia](/source/Rabbits_in_Australia).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Black |first1=Jessica |title=Australia's rabbit plague began with 24 bunnies, genetic research confirms |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-23/australias-rabbit-invasion-traced-to-1869/101361466 |access-date=16 April 2025 |work=[ABC News](/source/ABC_News_(Australia)) |date=23 August 2022 |language=en-AU}}</ref> Austin attended [Ballarat College](/source/Ballarat_College) before moving to [Geelong Grammar School](/source/Geelong_Grammar_School) in July 1872 and eventually went to [Scotch College, Melbourne](/source/Scotch_College%2C_Melbourne) from 1878.<ref name="ADoB" />

On 10 June 1884 Austin married Jessie Isabella, the Daughter government surveyor and grazier, Thomas Shaw. In 1883, Austin began a six-year lease of Gorrinn Station in the district. He went on to purchase St Enochs near Beaufort in 1888, but sold it around a decade later and made his home at Colvinsby in Dobie. He died from [nephritis](/source/nephritis) in [Stawell](/source/Stawell%2C_Victoria) on 30 November 1909. He was survived by his wife, two daughters, and his son Rex, who died of [meningitis](/source/meningitis) in 1914.<ref name="ADoB" />

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