William Kaye (Australian politician)

William Kaye (c.1820 – 10 May 1893) was a politician in colonial Victoria, member for Eastern Province in the Victorian Legislative Council.

History
Kaye was born in Yorkshire, England, and arrived in Port Phillip District in February 1842. He was a partner in a Melbourne firm of squatters' auctioneers, Kaye and Butchart. He was elected to the first wholly elective Legislative Council for Eastern Province, being sworn in on 1 November 1856. Kaye was disqualified from the Council on 1 February 1857 for bribery under the Election Act. He had been found guilty by a committee of the Legislative Council, following a petition by William Highett, alleging that Kaye's payment of £200 to an election agent to campaign for him in the electorate had amounted to bribery. The payment was found to have "induced [the agent] to exert a corrupt influence upon the election, by other means than the giving of money".