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Charles MacMahon (politician)
Captain Sir Charles MacMahon (10 July 1824 – 28 August 1891) was an Australian politician who twice served as Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly and as Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. MacMahon was born County Tyrone, Ireland, to a wealthy Irish family and served in the British army. He obtained a veterinary diploma in 1852, and soon left for Australia to join the Victorian gold rush, gold rush. He arrived in Melbourne on 18 November 1852. Life On 25 November 1853, MacMahon was appointed Assistant Commissioner of Police by William Henry Fancourt Mitchell and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. When Mitchell went to England in 1854–55, MacMahon became the acting Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police. He was Chief Commissioner from 1856 to 1858 when he resigned, owing to a disagreement on a matter of discipline with the then Chief Secretary, Sir John O'Shanassy. MacMahon had been a member of the Execu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speaker Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly is the Speaker (politics), presiding officer of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. The presiding officer of the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria, the Victorian Legislative Council, is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council. A Speaker is elected at the beginning of each new parliamentary term by the Legislative Assembly from one of its members. The Assembly may re-elect an incumbent Speaker by passing a motion; otherwise, a secret ballot is held. The Assembly can dismiss the Speaker by a majority vote, and the Speaker can resign. In practice, the Speaker is usually a member of the governing party or parties, who have the majority in the Assembly. The Speaker continues to be a member of a political party, and may or may not attend party meetings. The Speaker also continues to carry out ordinary electorate duties as a member of Parliament and must take part in an ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Berry
Sir Graham Berry, (28 August 1822 – 25 January 1904), Australian colonial politician, was the 11th Premier of Victoria. He was one of the most radical and colourful figures in the politics of colonial Victoria, and made the most determined efforts to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council, the stronghold of the landowning class. Early years Berry was born in Twickenham, near London, where his father, Benjamin Berry, was a licensed victualler. He had a primary education until 11 years old, then became an apprentice draper. In 1848 he married Harriet Ann Blencowe, with whom he had eleven children. Migration In 1852 he migrated to Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ..., and went into business as a grocer in Prahran, Victoria, Prahran, then a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Andrew (Australian Politician)
John Andrew may refer to: Politicians * John Andrew (Wallingford MP), MP for Wallingford, 1360 * John Andrew (Cricklade MP), MP for Cricklade, 1378–1388 * John Andrew (Cambridgeshire MP), MP for Cambridgeshire, 1383 *John Albion Andrew (1818–1867), Governor of Massachusetts *John Chapman Andrew (1822–1907), New Zealand politician * John F. Andrew (1850–1895), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts *Neil Andrew John Neil Andrew (born 7 June 1944) is a former Australian politician. He served in the House of Representatives for over 20 years from 1983 to 2004 representing the Division of Wakefield in South Australia for the Liberal Party. He became the ... (John Neil Andrew, born 1944), Australian politician Religion * John Andrew (archdeacon) (fl. 1798–1799), British Anglican priest * John Andrew (priest, born 1931) (1931–2014), British-American Anglican priest, rector of St. Thomas Church, Manhattan Others * John Andrew (engraver), English engraver and printmaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Langton
Edward Langton (2 January 1828 – 5 October 1905) was an Australian businessman and politician, Treasurer of Victoria in 1868 and 1872–1874. Langton was born in Gravesend, Kent, England, the youngest son of David Elland Langton, a butcher, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Payne. Langton migrated to Melbourne in 1852, aged 24, becoming involved in politics in the late 1850s. Langton unsuccessfully contested the Victorian Legislative Assembly seats of Collingwood in 1859 and 1861, East Melbourne in 1861, East Bourke Boroughs in 1864, and Dundas in 1865. Langton eventually had electoral success and represented East Melbourne from February 1866 until December 1867. Then from May 1868 to April 1877 he represented West Melbourne. On 6 May 1868 Langton, who was a staunch Conservative as well as a Free-trader, became Treasurer of Victoria in Charles Sladen's short-lived Ministry, and occupied the same post, with the additional office of Postmaster-General of Victoria, in the James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blackwood (Australian Politician)
John Blackwood may refer to: * John Blackwood (publisher) (1818–1879), Scottish publisher * Sir John Blackwood, 2nd Baronet (1722–1799), Irish politician and baronet * Jock Blackwood (1899–c. 1970), Australian rugby union player * John Blackwood (merchant) (before 1777–1819), Canadian merchant * John Blackwood (footballer, born 1877) (1877–1913), Scottish footballer * John Blackwood (footballer, born 1935), Scottish footballer * Johnny Blackwood, fictional character in '' Act of Love'' * John Blackwood (art dealer) (1696–1777), Scottish art dealer * John Arthur Blackwood John Arthur Blackwood (3 November 1904 – 6 August 1973) was a British Hong Kong businessman. He was the taipan of Butterfield & Swire and chairman of Cathay Pacific Airways. Between 1954 and 1955, he was the chairman of the Hong Kong General Cham ... (1904–1973), British Hong Kong businessman * John Blackwood, 11th Baron Dufferin and Claneboye, Australian architect See also * {{hndis, Black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Harbison (Australian Politician)
John Harris Harbison (born December 20, 1938) is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works. Life John Harris Harbison was born on December 20, 1938, in Orange, New Jersey, to the historian Elmore Harris Harbison and Janet German Harbison. The Harbisons were a musical family; Elmore had studied composition in his youth and Janet wrote songs. Harbison's sisters Helen and Margaret were musicians as well. He won the prestigious BMI Foundation's Student Composer Awards for composition at the age of 16 in 1954. He studied music at Harvard University (BA 1960), where he sang with the Harvard Glee Club, and later at the Berlin Musikhochschule and at Princeton (MFA 1963). He is an Institute Professor of music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a former student of Walter Piston and Roger Sessions. His works include several symphonies, string quartets, and concerti for violin, viola, and double bass. He won the Pulitzer Prize for music i ... [...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] |
John Carre Riddell
John Carre Riddell (4 June 1809 – 22 December 1879) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Riddell (pronounced ''Riddle'') was born in Linthill, Lilliesleaf, Roxburghshire, Scotland, the third son of Thomas Riddell, of Camieston, and his wife Jane, ''née'' Ferrier. Riddell was educated at the High School, Edinburgh, and at the University of Edinburgh. He arrived in Sydney aboard the ''Abberton'' on 20 August 1839 with his cousin Thomas Ferrier Hamilton and the pair rode to Melbourne the following month. Riddell was a nominated member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 21 June 1852 until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. He succeeded Charles Griffith. Riddell was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of West Bourke West Bourke (sometimes Bourke West) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of West Bourke
West Bourke (sometimes Bourke West) was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1856 to 1904. The district of West Bourke was one of the initial districts of the first Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1856. Boundaries The boundaries of the district included the Great Dividing Range from the source of the Werribee River to the north-eastern branch of the Saltwater River near Big Hill, then from the Saltwater River to the south-western corner of the parish of Bulla Bulla. The eastern boundary included the source of the Moonee Ponds to Flemington Bridge, then south to the Yarra River, Port Phillip Bay and to the mouth of the Werribee River at its source in the Great Dividing Range The Great Dividing Range, also known as the East Australian Cordillera or the Eastern Highlands, is a cordillera system in eastern Australia consisting of an expansive collection of mountain ranges, plateaus and rolling hills, that runs rough ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Last King
Mark Last King (5 February 1809 - 13 February 1879) was an English-Australian actor and politician. King was born in London, England as Mark Last, where he was apprenticed into the silk trade and then worked as a silk mercer in his own firm in Winchester Street. He migrated to Australia in 1838, arriving in Melbourne and working in the timber industry on the Clarence River in New South Wales for a short period. He then became an actor under the stage name of Morton King, performing variously in Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne, largely in Shakespearean plays. Edmund Finn described King as having been in 1848 "believed to be unrivalled in his line on this side of the Equator". He subsequently adopted "King" as his legal surname on account of his success under that name. King began managing the Queen's Theatre in Melbourne in 1848 and leased the theatre in conjunction with Charles Frederick Young in 1850-51, around which time he substantially retired from acting. He moved to Port Ade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Amsinck
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876–936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6–1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: ** Henry I of Castile ** Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne University Press
Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) is the book publishing arm of the University of Melbourne. History MUP was founded in 1922 as Melbourne University Press to sell text books and stationery to students, and soon began publishing books itself. Over the years scholarly works published under the MUP imprint have won numerous awards and prizes. The name ''Melbourne University Publishing'' was adopted for the business in 2003 following a restructure by the university, but books continue to be published under the ''Melbourne University Press'' imprint. The Miegunyah Press is an imprint of MUP, established in 1967 under a bequest from businessman and philanthropist Russell Grimwade, with the intention of subsidising the publication of illustrated scholarly works that would otherwise be uneconomic to publish. Grimwade's great-grandnephew Andrew Grimwade is the present patron. ''Miegunyah'' is from an Aboriginal Australian language, meaning "my house". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
