James Mirams

Who was James Mirams?

James Mirams was an Australian politician.

Born in Lambeth, London, the son of Rev. James Mirams, he became an ironmonger and had a business in Essex before he migrated to Melbourne in 1857, becoming a dairy farmer at Braybrook. He was later a schoolteacher at Fitzroy and a bookseller at Collingwood before becoming involved in building societies. In 1876 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Collingwood, serving until 1886; he was subsequently the member for Williamstown from 1887 to 1889. In 1890 he was declared insolvent and convicted of issuing a false balance sheet with intent to defraud, resulting in his imprisonment. Mirams died at Moonee Ponds in 1916.