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Bruce Walker (politician, Born 1870)
Robert Bruce Walker (6 November 1870 – 1 July 1932) was an Australian politician. He was born at Windsor to William Walker and Henrietta Medora, ''née'' Cooper. After attending Windsor Grammar School and Cooerwull Academy at Bowenfels he worked for the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney until he was articled in his father's legal firm. On 8 June 1895 he married Lucinda Isabel Rowthorn, with whom he had four sons. In 1899 he was admitted as a solicitor and became a partner in his father's firm. He also entered the military, rising to become a major in the Australian Light Horse. In 1917 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the independent member for Hawkesbury. With the introduction of proportional representation in 1920 Walker, having joined the Nationalists, was elected as one of the members for Cumberland Cumberland ( ) is a historic county in the far North West England. It covers part of the Lake District as well as the north Pennine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, New South Wales
Windsor is a historic town north-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the council seat of the Hawkesbury local government area. The town sits on the Hawkesbury River, enveloped by farmland and Australian bush. Many of the oldest surviving European buildings in Australia are located at Windsor. It is north-west of metropolitan Sydney, on the fringes of urban sprawl. Demographics At the , Windsor had a reported population of 1,891 people, with a median age of 42. The most common ancestries in Windsor were English (30.9%), Australian (28.9%), Irish (10.3%), Scottish (7.5%), and German (2.8%). Most people from Windsor were born in Australia (78.8%), followed by England (3.3%), and New Zealand (1.5%). The most common religious group in Windsor was Christianity (65.8%), 25.2% being Catholic and 23.0% Anglican. The second largest group was No Religion (28.9%). The most common occupations in Windsor included Professionals (15.9%), Technicians and Trades Workers (15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1925–1927
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 27th parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1925 to 1927. They were elected at the 1925 New South Wales state election, 1925 state election on 30 May 1925. The Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Speaker was James Dooley (Australian politician), James Dooley. Under the provisions of the Parliamentary Elections (Casual Vacancies) Act, casual vacancies were filled by the next unsuccessful candidate on the departing member's party list. If an Independent member retired, the Clerk of the Assembly determined who would fill the vacancy based on the departing members voting record in questions of confidence. See also *Lang ministry (1925–27), First Lang ministry *Results of the 1925 New South Wales state election *Candidates of the 1925 New South Wales state election References ;Citations ;Bibliography *Nairn, Bede (1995) ''Jack Lang the 'Big Fella': Jack Lang and the Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voltaire Molesworth
Voltaire Molesworth (29 December 1889 – 5 November 1934) was an Australian politician. Born in Balmain to seaman James Molesworth and Elizabeth Ellen Vibert, his family travelled to the socialist New Australia settlement in Paraguay when he was an infant. He was a commercial traveller in Sydney before working with the ''Cumberland Times'' around 1911. He continued in journalism and married Ivy Vick in 1916, with whom he had three children. A member of the Labor Party, he was secretary of the Homebush branch, the Granville state electorate council and the Nepean federal electorate council. In 1915 he was elected to the district committee of the Australian Journalists Association, of which he was treasurer (1917–19) and president (1919–21). Molesworth was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920 as a Labor member for Cumberland, serving until 1925, when he became chief of staff of the ''Times'', later becoming editor from 1927 to 1929. In 192 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Shand
Major James Barclay Shand VD (1870 – 21 December 1944) was an Australian politician. Born at Pyrmont to joiner George Sand and Elizabeth, ''née'' Burns, Shand was educated at Fort Street Public School before working as a clerk with Harrison, Jones and Devlin, a wool and stock firm. He married Ann Donald in 1896, with whom he had three children, and served on Drummoyne Council from 1905 to 1911. He eventually became secretary of Harrison, Jones and Devlin and oversaw its amalgamation with Goldsbrough Mort & Co. After visiting the United Kingdom and Europe in 1914, he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force in 1915, and served with the Mining Corps until he was invalided home in 1917 and stationed at Molongolo Concentration Camp as the quartermaster. In 1922, he received the Volunteer Officers' Decoration. He was secretary of the Master Butchers' Federation until 1926. In 1926, Shand was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a member for Cumberl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William FitzSimons
William Robert FitzSimons (26 November 1870 – 20 March 1926) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Greencastle in County Donegal to constable Samuel FitzSimons and Isabella, ''née'' McCloy. He arrived in New South Wales around 1886 and began studying dentistry. He married Bessie Amy Love, with whom he had two children. He practised as a dentist in Elizabeth and Macquarie Streets from 1905 to 1926, and also served on Kuringai Shire Council from 1911 to 1922 (president 1917–21). In 1922 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Nationalist member for Cumberland, serving until his death in Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ... in 1926. References {{DEFAULTSORT:FitzSimons, William 1870 birt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Carr
Ernest Shoebridge Carr (28 September 1875 – 17 September 1956) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1906 until 1917 for the electorate of Macquarie, representing the Australian Labor Party until the 1916 Labor split and thereafter joining the new Nationalist Party. He was later a Nationalist member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1920 to 1922, representing the electorate of Cumberland. Early life and career Carr was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, the son of a soap manufacturer. He was educated at state schools until the age of 14, when he left school to work in his father's factory. He took over a Dubbo real estate agency at the age of 19 but sold out two years later and entered into partnership as a building contractor at Bourke, with the Bourke Lands Office and Wentworth Post Office among Carr's projects. At 23, he then bought the Orange-based newspaper '' The Leader'' and converted it from a bi-w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinsley Hall
Brinsley Hall (26 October 1862 – 8 May 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born along the Macdonald River near St Albans in New South Wales, the son of William Hall, a farmer. He attended Windsor Grammar School and then worked as a farmer in outback New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. In 1885 he married Anicus Kate George, with whom he had four children. After a year in New Zealand, he managed the family property on the Hawkesbury River, becoming active in local agricultural circles. In 1901 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Hawkesbury. Initially a member of the Progressive Party, he transferred to the Liberal Party following the Progressives' collapse in 1904. He held the seat until his defeat as a Nationalist candidate in 1917. Hall died in Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city, eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1930 New South Wales State Election
The 1930 New South Wales state election was for 90 electoral districts each returning a single member with compulsory preferential voting. The principal change from the 1927 election was the division of the state into 3 zones, Sydney with forty-three districts, Newcastle with five, and the country with forty-two. While the average number of enrolled voters per electorate was 16,009, in the country zone the average was 13,028,, in Newcastle 18,933, and Sydney 18,580. Results by electoral district Albury John Ross won the seat at the 1927 election as a Nationalist however he resigned from the party before the election, and contested the seat as an Independent Nationalist Annandale Armidale Arncliffe Joseph Cahill () was the sitting member for the abolished district of St George which was largely replaced by Arncliffe. Ashburnham Ashfield Auburn Balmain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1927 New South Wales State Election
The 1927 New South Wales state election was for 90 electoral districts returning 90 members and all elections were held on 8 October 1927. This election took place after the Hare-Clark voting system was abolished and replaced with single member districts with optional preferential voting. Results by electoral district Albury Alexandria Annandale Armidale Ashburnham Ashfield Auburn Balmain Bankstown Barwon Bathurst Bondi Both Harold Jaques and Millicent Preston-Stanley were Nationalist members for Eastern Suburbs and Preston-Stanley won Nationalist pre-selection. Jaques re-joined the Nationalist party after the election. Botany Burwood Byron Canterbury Cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1925 New South Wales State Election
The 1925 New South Wales state election was for 90 seats representing 24 electoral districts, with each district returning between 3 and 5 members. This was the third and final election in New South Wales that took place under a modified Hare-Clark voting system. The average number of enrolled voters per member was 14,690, ranging from Sturt (10,297) to Ryde (19,119). Results by electoral district Balmain Bathurst Botany Byron Cootamundra Cumberland Eastern Suburbs Goulburn Maitland Murray Murrumbidgee Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1922 New South Wales State Election
The 1922 New South Wales state election was for 90 seats representing 24 electoral districts, with each district returning between 3 and 5 members. This was the second election in New South Wales that took place under a modified Hare-Clark voting system. The average number of enrolled voters per member was 13,785, ranging from Sturt (10,386) to Ryde (15,722). Results by electoral district Balmain Bathurst Botany Byron Cootamundra Cumberland Eastern Suburbs Goulburn Maitland Murray Murrumbidgee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1920 New South Wales State Election
The 1920 New South Wales state election was for 90 seats representing 24 electoral districts, with each district returning between 3 and 5 members. This was the first election in New South Wales that took place under a modified Hare-Clark voting system. The average number of enrolled voters per member was 12,805, ranging from Sturt (11,539) to Sydney (13,478). Results by electoral district Balmain Bathurst Botany Byron Cootamundra Cumberland Eastern Suburbs Goulburn Maitland Murray ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
