The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/M'Lean, Hon. Allan
M‘Lean, Hon. Allan, M.L.A., Minister of Lands, Victoria, was born in the Highlands of Scotland in 1840, and went to Australia when three years old. He is the senior partner in the firm of A. M‘Lean & Co., stock and station agents in Melbourne and Gippsland. Up to 1880 he resided in Gippsland, and in that year was returned to the Assembly for the electorate of North Gippsland, and still sits for the reconstructed constituency. Whilst President of the Maffra Shire Council he took a leading part in establishing the Municipal Association of Victoria. In Nov. 1890 Mr. M‘Lean accepted the post of Minister of Lands in Mr. Munro's Government, and was sworn of the Executive Council. On the death of Mr. Langridge he took the additional office of Chief Secretary, and when the Ministry was reconstituted under Mr. Shiels he retained both posts.