Background
Born in Lambeth, London, the son of Review James Mirams who was a missionary to Berbice. His father was in England in 1840 when he attended the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London.
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James Mirams
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Attended a school in Chishill, Essex.
Career
Mirams junior This Mirams 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.
