Butler Cole Aspinall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Butler Cole Aspinall

Victorian barrister and politician

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1830

Place of Birth: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 04-Apr-1875

Profession: politician, barrister, newspaper editor

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Butler Cole Aspinall (11 November 1830 – 4 April 1875) was a British-born journalist, barrister and Queen's Counsel who migrated with his young wife to Melbourne, Australia, at first as an editor and writer for The Argus.
He soon took up his lucrative legal practice as a defence advocate and later as a politician in the state of Victoria. Aspinall was one of the chief counsel for the leaders of the Ballarat Riots, also known as Eureka Stockade, and later defended Henry James O'Farrell for the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
He was briefly appointed as Attorney-General in 1861 and Solicitor-General in 1870.Aspinall died in April 1875 in Liverpool, England.