
Graham Berry (28 August 1822 – 25 January 1904) was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 7 August to 20 October 1875 (succeeding George Kerferd and preceding James McCulloch), from 21 May 1877 to 5 March 1880 (succeeding McCulloch and preceding James Service), and from 3 August 1880 to 9 July 1881 (succeeding Service and preceding Bryan O'Loghlen).
Biography[]
Graham Berry was born in Twickenham, Middlesex, England in 1822, and he migrated to Victoria, Australia in 1852 and became a grocer in Prahran. He became a self-educated orator, modelling himself after his hero William Ewart Gladstone, and he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for East Melbourne in 1861, labelled an "extreme liberal" by The Argus. He was re-elected for the radical constituency of Collingwood in that year's general election, but he lost re-election in 1865. He moved to Geelong in 1866 and started the Geelong Register newspaper, and he served as Treasurer of Victoria in 1870 and 1871, supporting protectionism. He served as Premier in 1875, from 1877 to 1880, and from 1880 to 1881, supporting breaking up the Squattocracy's great pastoral properties, advocating a high tariff to foster local manufacturing (harming the importing and banking industries), and resigning from the Parliament in 1886 to serve as the Victorian Agent-General in London. He returned to Melbourne in 1892 and was elected MP for East Bourke Boroughs in 1892, but he resigned in 1893 due to the decline of reformist liberalism in Victoria. He served as Speaker from 1894 to 1897, and he supported an Australian federation until his death in 1904 at the age of 81.