Peter Snodgrass

Peter Snodgrass (29 September 1817 – 25 November 1867) was a pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

Snodgrass was born in Portugal and arrived at Sydney, New South Wales, with his parents Lieutenant-Colonel Kenneth Snodgrass (later Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales) and Janet, née Wright, in December 1828. Peter Snodgrass travelled overland to the Port Phillip District in 1838.

Snodgrass was elected a member of the first Victorian Legislative Council on 13 September 1851. and held the seat until the original Council was abolished in 1856. Snodgrass was then elected a member of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly and remained so until his death.

Snodgrass died in South Yarra, Melbourne, Victoria, of a heart aneurism.