Hugh Glass (pastoralist)

Hugh Glass
Born1817
Portaferry, County Down, Ireland
Died15 May 1871
SpouseLucinda Nash (m. 1853)
Children10

Hugh Glass (1817–1871) was an Australian pastoralist, landowner and land speculator, one of the wealthiest and most influential men in colonial Victoria in the 1850s and 1860s.[1] His wealth was built on pastoral holdings and land deals and he exercised enormous influence over the colony's parliament.

  1. ^ Senyard, J. E. (1972). "Glass, Hugh (1817–1871)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 20 November 2014.

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