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Augustus Greeves
Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves (7 September 1806 – 23 May 1874) was a Mayor of Melbourne and Member of Parliament in Melbourne, Australia. Greeves was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England and emigrated to the Port Phillip District in New South Wales in 1840. He was one of the first medical men to arrive in Melbourne. He was a surgeon, publican and local councillor and was the Mayor of the City of Melbourne between 1849 and 1850. He was also, for a short time, the editor of the Port Phillip Gazette and the Melbourne Morning Herald. He was a founding member of Manchester Unity I.O.O.F. in Victoria. Greeves was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1853 to 1856 for the City of Melbourne. Then he was a member of the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Bourke 1856 to 1859, then Geelong East 1860 to 1861 and Belfast from 1864 to 1865. He died in Melbourne on 23 May 1874, at the age of 67 and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayor Of Melbourne
This is a list of the mayors and lord mayors of the City of Melbourne, a Local government in Australia, local government area of Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Mayors (1842–1902) Lord mayors (1902–1980) The title of "Lord Mayor" was conferred on the position of mayor by Edward VII of the United Kingdom, King Edward VII on 18 December 1902. Commissioners (1981–1982) Lord mayors (1982–1993) Commissioners (1993–1996) Lord mayors (since 1996) Electoral history See also * Melbourne Town Hall * List of Town Halls in Melbourne * Local government areas of Victoria References Lords Mayor of Melbourne External linksat RULERSMelbourne City Council {{DEFAULTSORT:List of Mayors And Lord Mayors of Melbourne Lists of local government leaders of places in Victoria (Australia), Melbourne Mayors and Lord Mayors of Melbourne, * Victoria (Australia)-related lists, Mayors Melbourne City Melbourne-related lists, Mayors Melbourne City City of Melbour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Geelong East
Geelong East was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1985. It was located south of the city of Geelong, defined in the Victorian Electoral Act, 1858 as: Geelong East (along with Electoral district of Geelong West) was created when the four-member Electoral district of Geelong was abolished in 1859. Geelong West and Geelong East were abolished in 1877, replaced by a re-created 3-member district of Geelong. After the Electoral district of Bellarine The electoral district of Bellarine is one of the electoral districts of Victoria, Australia, for the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It covers an area of stretching from the Bellarine Peninsula to the outer eastern suburbs of Geelong. It inclu ... was abolished in 1976, Geelong East was re-created. In 1985, population increases caused another redrawing of electoral boundaries; Geelong East was abolished and Bellarine re-created that year. Graham Ernst, last member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Heales
Richard Heales (22 February 1822 – 19 June 1864), Victorian colonial politician, was the 4th Premier of Victoria. Heales was born in London, the son of Richard Heales, an ironmonger. He was apprenticed as a coachbuilder and migrated to Victoria with his father in 1842. He worked for some years as a labourer before establishing himself as a wheelwright and coachbuilder in 1847. Thereafter he grew increasingly prosperous. He was a teetotaller and a leading temperance campaigner. The Temperance Hall in Russell Street was built largely due to his efforts. Heales was elected to the Melbourne City Council in 1850. He resigned in 1852 and returned to England, but was back in Melbourne in time for the first election held under the new Constitution of Victoria in September 1856. He stood for the seat of Melbourne in the Legislative Assembly, but was defeated. He was elected member for East Bourke at a by-election in March 1857. In October 1859, Heales won the seat of East Bourke Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bennett (Melbourne Mayor)
Robert Bennett (21 January 1822 – 18 January 1891) was a politician and Mayor of Melbourne, Australia between 1861 and 1862. Bennett was born in Tanderagee, County Armagh, Ireland, and arrived in the Port Phillip District in January 1842. In November 1856 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Bourke, holding the seat until June 1857. He held the same seat again from October 1859 to August 1864. Bennett died in Northcote, Victoria Northcote () is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Darebin local government area. Northcote recorded a population of 25,276 at the 2021 ce ... on 18 January 1891. References Mayors and Lord Mayors of Melbourne 1822 births 1891 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly People from County Armagh Irish emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian politicians {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Rae
Thomas Rae (1819 – 10 December 1862) was a manufacturer and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life Rae was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the son of James Rae and Jean, ''née'' Weir. Rae was educated at a public school in Glasgow and became an apprentice engineer. Colonial Australia Rae emigrated to the Port Phillip District in 1848. He joined the firm of Jackson, Rae & Co., his brother being a partner. In November 1855 Rae was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for City of Melbourne Rae held that seat until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. Rae became a member of the inaugural Fitzroy Fitzroy or FitzRoy may refer to: People As a given name *Several members of the Somerset family (Dukes of Beaufort) have this as a middle-name: **FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1788–1855) ** Henry Charles FitzRoy Somerset, 8th Duke of Beau ... council in 1858. Rae died in at 60 Young Street Fitzroy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Murphy (Victorian Politician)
James Murphy (1821 – 27 December 1888) was a brewer and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life Murphy was born in Dublin, Ireland, the son of John Murphy and his wife Mary, ''née'' Morgan. Colonial Australia Murphy arrived in the Port Phillip District around 1839. On 8 June 1853 Murphy was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for the City of Melbourne. Murphy held this position until resigning in September 1855. Murphy died in Northcote, Victoria Northcote () is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Darebin local government area. Northcote recorded a population of 25,276 at the 2021 ce ... on 27 December 1888, he was unmarried. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Murphy, James 1821 births 1888 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Irish emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick James Sargood
Frederick James Sargood (1805 – 15 January 1873) was a merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Sargood was probably born in England. The 1871 census of England and Wales gives his birthplace as "London, Essex". Colonial Australia Sargood moved to the Port Phillip District in February 1850. In October 1853 Sargood was deemed to have been elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for City of Melbourne instead of Henry Langlands, Sargood was a member of the Council until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. Sargood became a member of the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly for St Kilda in November 1856 and resigned in December 1857. Sargood returned to England around 1867 and died in Croydon, England on 15 January 1873; he had married Emma Ripon on 30 October 1830 at Saint Peter, Walworth, Surrey, England. His son, Frederick Thomas Sargood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Langlands
Henry Langlands (1794 – 21 June 1863) was an iron founder and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Langlands was born in London, England, the son of John Langlands, a baker, of Dundee, and his wife Christian, ''née'' Thoms Langlands and his family returned to Dundee when Henry was several years old. Colonial Australia Langlands arrived with his wife and children in the Port Phillip District in January 1847. His brother, Robert, had established the first iron foundry in the District in partnership with Thomas Fulton in 1842. On 8 June 1853 Langlands was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for City of Melbourne, however he was unseated in October 1853 after a petition and Frederick James Sargood was declared to have been elected. Langlands was elected to the seat of Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hodgson (Australian Politician)
John Hodgson (1799 – 2 August 1860) was an Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council and Mayor of Melbourne 1853–54. He died at his house in Kew of bronchitis. Arrival in Melbourne According to his great, great grand daughter, Hodgson was born at Studley, Wadworth, Yorkshire in 1799 to William and Mary Hodgson. The Re-member database puts his birthplace in the small west Yorkshire village of Wadsworth. Studley in Wadworth, and therefore its use in Melbourne, probably draws on the now World Heritage site of Studley Royal Park Yorkshire, famous for the gardens developed over a hundred years from 1716 by the Aislabie family. The gardens were a popular tourist destination during the 19th century. The oral source says he and his wife, Annie Buckley Hodgson, with three sons and three daughters arrived in Sydney, Australia in 1837. Later that year they settled in Melbourne. In 1837 a passenger of the same name is reported travelling from Launceston to Sy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John O'Shanassy
Sir John O'Shanassy, KCMG (18 February 1818 – 5 May 1883), was an Irish-Australian politician who served as the 2nd Premier of Victoria. O'Shanassy was born near Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland, the son of a surveyor, and came to the Port Phillip District (later Victoria) in 1839. He went into business in Melbourne as a draper, and by 1846 he was rich enough to be elected to the Melbourne City Council and to become the founding chairman of the Colonial Bank of Australasia. By the 1850s he was a major landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the colony. He also became a recognised leader of the large Irish Catholic community. Biography O'Shanassy was elected to the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council for City of Melbourne in 1851. When Victoria gained responsible government in 1856, he was elected to the Legislative Assembly for both Melbourne and Kilmore districts, he decided to represent the latter resulting in a by-election for Melbourne. In 1868 he returned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Smith (Victoria Politician)
John Thomas Smith (28 May 1816 – 30 January 1879) was an Australian politician and seven times Mayor of Melbourne. Early life Smith was born at Sydney, the son of John Smith, a Scottish shoemaker, and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Biggs.Jill Eastwood,Smith, John Thomas (1816 - 1879), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Vol. 6, MUP, 1976, pp 150-151. Retrieved 29 January 2010 He was educated under William Timothy Cape. Smith was apprenticed at 14 years of age to Beaver & Co., builders and joiners, but this was cancelled in 1833. Smith served as a clerk of the recently established Bank of Australasia, but in September 1837 obtained the appointment of schoolmaster at an aboriginal mission station in the colony of Victoria at a salary of £40 a year. Shortly afterwards he went into business as a grocer, and was in the timber trade in 1840. Smith took over the Adelphi Hotel, Flinders Lane, in July 1841 from his brother-in-law Robert Brettagh, and in 1844 replaced Brettagh as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Westgarth
William Westgarth (15 June 1815 – 28 October 1889) was a Scottish-born merchant, historian, statistician and politician in Australia. Westgarth was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, and, later, the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life William Westgarth was the son of another Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, and his wife Christian, ''née'' Thomson He was born at Edinburgh. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then entered the office of G. Young and Company of Leith, who were engaged in the Australian trade, and realising the possibilities of the new land, decided to emigrate to Australia. Career in Australia Westgarth arrived in Melbourne on 13 December 1840, then a town of three or four thousand people. Its size, and the limits of colonisation, in the 1840s may be gleaned from the fact, that Westgarth witnessed a corroboree involving 700 Aboriginal Australians, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |