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1842 Sydney City Council Election
The 1842 Sydney City Council election was held on 1 November 1842 to elect 24 aldermen to the City of Sydney in the colony of New South Wales. This was the first-ever election for Sydney after it was established on 20 July 1842. 49 candidates contested the elections, with polling open from 9am until 4pm. John Hosking (politician), John Hosking was elected by alderman as List of mayors, lord mayors and administrators of Sydney, lord mayor following the election. In Brisbane Ward (City of Brisbane), Brisbane Ward, ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' observed that some electors chose not to vote "because they had promised their votes to five or six candidates," and after finding out they could only vote for four, chose not to vote at all. Electoral system Suffrage, Franchise was given to those who occupied and paid rates on a property − however, if they owned property in multiple wards, they could only vote in one of them. Women were not eligible to vote. Six wards − Bourke Ward, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors, Lord Mayors And Administrators Of Sydney
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 1995, replacing the previous system of being internally elected annually by the Councillors, and serves a four-year term. The most recent election was held on 4 December 2021, at which the incumbent Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, was re-elected to a fifth term. The Lord Mayor is assisted in their work by a Deputy Lord Mayor, who is elected on an annual basis by the elected councillors. Office history The office of the Mayor of Sydney along with the City of Sydney was created on 20 July 1842 pursuant to the ''Sydney City Incorporation Act 1842'' by Governor Sir George Gipps. Prior to the first municipal election, the governor nominated magistrate Charles Windeyer to serve as interim mayor. The first council, consisting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Ward
Macquarie may refer to: People * Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of the British colony of New South Wales from 1810 to 1821. * Elizabeth Macquarie Campbell, Lachlan Macquarie's second wife Locations * Division of Macquarie, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in New South Wales * Lake Macquarie (New South Wales), a lake in New South Wales, Australia ** City of Lake Macquarie, a local government area surrounding Lake Macquarie * Macquarie, Australian Capital Territory, a suburb of Canberra, Australia * Macquarie County, one of the 141 Cadastral divisions of New South Wales, Australia * Macquarie Fields, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia * Macquarie Island, in the Southern Ocean * Macquarie Park, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia ** Macquarie Centre, a regional sized shopping centre located in Macquarie Park * Macquarie River, an inland river in New South Wales, Australia ** Macquarie Marshes Nature Reserve * Macquarie Street, Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840s Elections In Australia
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Robert Wilshire
James Robert Wilshire (29 July 1809 – 30 August 1860) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1855 and 1856 and again from 1858 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term between 1856 and 1857. Personal life Wilshire was the second son of a successful Sydney tanner, James Wilshire and his wife Esther, ''née'' Pitt. The Wilshires were one of the oldest colonial families in New South Wales, James's grandfather, also James Wilshire, having arrived in the colony in 1800. Wilshire was educated privately and worked in his father's tannery which he inherited in 1840. He married twice, first to Elizabeth Thompson (in 1836) and, following her death in 1846, married her younger sister, Sarah in 1847. He had twelve children in all, five with Elizabeth, and then seven with Sarah. His oldest, James Thompson Wilshire, became a politician, and his youngest (born a week after his d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Flood
Edward Flood (24 June 1805 – 9 September 1888) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1851 and 1856 and again from 1879 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1872. He was the first Secretary for Public Works in New South Wales. Early life Flood was the illegitimate son of an Irish convict. He had minimal formal education but became an apprentice carpenter and builder. By 1840 he had become extremely wealthy and had acquired a large amount of city property and pastoral interests including Narrandera Station and property on the Darling River. He also owned wool stores at Circular Quay, a wool pressing company and flour mills. He was a foundation alderman of Sydney City Council and was a supporter of the Benevolent Society. State Parliament In 1851, prior to the establishment of responsible self-government, Flood was elected to the semi-elected Legislative Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Broughton (Australian Politician)
Thomas Stafford Broughton (10 August 1810 – 12 December 1901) was an Australian politician. He was born in Windsor to Thomas Broughton and Mary Stafford. At the age of nine he became an apprentice tailor, owning his own business by the age of 23. In 1838 he married Jane Tindale, with whom he had fifteen children. By this time he was farming, with over 150,000 acres in the Lachlan River district, together with the Artarmon estate and a residence at Paddington. In 1842 he became a foundation alderman on Sydney City Council, serving until 1851 including a period as mayor in 1847. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1860. Broughton died at Glebe in 1901. References External links * Creative_Commons_license.html" "title="/nowiki>Creative Commons license">CC-By-SA A Creative Commons (CC) license is one of several public copyright license A public license or public copyright licenses is a lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Macdermott
Henry Macdermott (1798 – 1 February 1848) was an Irish-born politician and merchant in the colony of New South Wales. He served as mayor of Sydney in 1845. He was a sergeant-major in the British Army. Biography Macdermott was born to a Protestant family in County Roscommon. His father was a British Army officer. Having enlisted in 1820, Macdermott was a sergeant with the 39th Regiment by the time he had arrived in Australia in 1827. His military career ended in 1831, having achieved the rank of sergeant-major. He was elected as an alderman for the City of Sydney The City of Sydney is the local government area covering the Sydney central business district and surrounding inner city suburbs of the greater metropolitan area of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established by Act of Parliament in 1842, th ... in 1842. He was mayor in 1845, before resigning from council in August 1847 due to bankruptcy. In 1837, Macdermott married Catherine Small in Sydney. The couple had at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hill (Australian Politician)
George Hill (25 March 1802 – 19 July 1883) was an Australian politician. He was born at Parramatta to convicts William Hill and Mary Johnston. He became a butcher, as did his father, and eventually held significant real estate, as well as land on the Murrumbidgee River. He served on Sydney City Council from 1842 to 1851 and from 1857 to 1858, and was mayor in 1850. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1848 to 1849 and from 1856 to 1861. He was twice married: first to Mary Ann Hunter, and then to Jane Binnie, with whom he had ten children. Hill died at Surry Hills in 1883. He built Durham Hall, Albion Street, Surry Hills in about 1835, and lived there until his death. References See also Political families of Australia A political family of Australia (also called a political dynasty) is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics, particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Allen (Australian Politician)
Hon. George Allen (1800–1877) was an Australian colonial attorney and politician in New South Wales. He was the founder of Australia's oldest law firm, Allens. Early life Allen was the second son of Mary and Dr. Richard Allen, physician to George III, and was born in London in November 1800. Following his father's death, his mother wed Thomas Collicott in 1809. Collicott was convicted of fraud over revenue stamps and was transported to New South Wales on the Earl Spencer in October 1813. Mary applied for assistance to join her husband and arrived in Sydney with five children, including George, on the Mary Ann in January 1816. Allen was intensely religious, joining the Methodist Society in 1821. He played a significant role in Sydney's Methodist community and the Temperance Society. Legal and commercial career He was the first attorney and solicitor to receive his training in New South Wales and be admitted by the Supreme Court of New South Wales. This took place on 26 July 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phillip Ward (City Of Sydney)
Phillip Ward (also originally known as Phillip's Ward) was a Ward (electoral subdivision), ward of the City of Sydney, Sydney City Council. It was one of six wards created for the 1842 Sydney City Council election, inaugural election in 1842, and was abolished on two separate occasions before its final abolishment when all wards were removed in 1987. History Phillip Ward was created in 1842 ahead of the 1842 Sydney City Council election, first election on 1 November. It had 684 electors and included the head of Darling Harbour, Chippendale, New South Wales, Chippendale, Pyrmont, New South Wales, Pyrmont and Ultimo, New South Wales, Ultimo. By 1900 Sydney City Council election, 1900, the ward had 2,499 electors. The ward was a stronghold for the New South Wales Labor Party, Labor Party, who had a clean sweep on multiple occasions. At the 1974 Sydney City Council election, 1974 election, where Labor only won three seats across the entire council, Civic Reform Association, Civic Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gipps Ward , a surname, including a list of people ...
Gipps is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Caroline Gipps (born 1948), British academic and vice-chancellor of the University of Wolverhampton (2005–2011) * George Gipps (1791–1847), Governor of New South Wales, Australia *George Gipps (MP for Canterbury) (died 1800) *George Gipps (MP for Ripon), MP for Ripon in 1807 * Henry Plumptre Gipps (1813–1859), MP for Canterbury * Reginald Gipps (1831–1908), British Army general and Military Secretary *Richard Gipps (1659–1708), English Master of the Revels and historian *Ruth Gipps (1921–1999), British composer *Tommy Gipps (1888–?), English footballer See also * *Simon Gipps-Kent (1958–1987), British actor *Gipp Gipp is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Big Gipp (Cameron Gipp, born 1973), an American rapper * Chuck Gipp (Charles R. Gipp, born 1947), an American politician * David Gipp (born 1969), British footballer * George Gipp (18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Windeyer
Charles Windeyer (1 July 1780 – 30 January 1855) was an Australian magistrate who held a variety of public positions and was later appointed by Governor George Gipps as the first Mayor of Sydney. He was the father of barrister and politician Richard Windeyer and grandfather of politician and judge William Charles Windeyer Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge. As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park (north of the new Central railway constructed in .... References 1780 births 1855 deaths Mayors and Lord Mayors of Sydney Australian people of Swiss-German descent 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
