James Ross (Australian lawyer)
James Hunter Ross was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria.
Ross was born at Prestonpans, East Lothian Scotland, the son of Major John Ross and Jean Buchan.
Ross practised as a lawyer at the Supreme Court in Scotland. He arrived in the Port Phillip District in August 1841. In 1841, Ross founded the law firm Blake & Riggall, the forerunner of Ashurst Australia.
On 31 October 1851 Griffith was nominated,
being sworn-in the following month, to the Victorian Legislative Council,
a position he held until resigning July 1852. He was replaced in the Council by Thomas Turner à Beckett.
