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Commissioner Of Railways
The Minister of Railways, formerly Commissioner of Railways, was a minister within the Executive Council of Victoria, Australia. Commissioners Ministers Reference list {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub Victoria State Government Railways Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Victoria (Australia)
The flag of Victoria, symbolising the state of Victoria in Australia, is a British Blue Ensign defaced by the state badge of Victoria in the fly. The badge is the Southern Cross surmounted by an imperial crown, which is currently the St Edward's Crown. The stars of the Southern Cross are white and range from five to eight points with each star having one point pointing to the top of the flag. The flag dates from 1870, with minor variations, the last of which was in 1953. It is the only Australian state flag not to feature the state badge on a round disc. History 1844 separation flag In 1844, John Harrison, the father of H. C. A. Harrison, designed a flag for the Separation Society, an organisation advocating for the separation of the Port Phillip District (present-day Victoria) from the Colony of New South Wales. The flag, featuring "a white star centred on a crimson ground", was flown at a large open-air meeting on Batman's Hill in June 1844. It was described more fully in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sullivan (Victorian Politician)
James Forester Sullivan (1817-1876) was born in Ireland and served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly in Australia. He was the member for Electoral district of Collingwood, Collingwood between 1 May 1874 and 1 February 1876 then the member for Electoral district of Mandurang, Mandurang between 1 May 1861 1 January 1871. In parliament he served as Commissioner of Roads and Commissioner of Railways, Railways, Commissioner of Trade and Customs, Minister of Mines (Victoria), Minister of Mines, and Vice-President of the Board of Land and Works. He died in Melbourne on 3 February 1876. Reference list 1817 births 1876 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Vice-Presidents of the Board of Land and Works Ministers of Railways (Victoria) Ministers of Mines (Victoria) {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Richard Outtrim
Alfred Richard Outtrim (1845 – 1925) was a long-serving Victorian politician who gained a reputation as a competent government minister and a promoter of women's suffrage and regional development. Before Federation, he was a liberal Minister in the Munro, Shiels and McLean governments. He served seven terms in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1885 before being defeated by F. J. Field in 1902. Joining with Labor, Outtrim successfully recontested Maryborough in 1904 and then served an additional seven terms to 1920 ending his political career as the father of the house. Before the 1890s, there was no formal party system in Victoria. Party labels before that time indicate a general tendency only. From the 1880s, until after Federation in 1901, Victorian politics were dominated by Protectionist Liberals, who were opposed by Free Trade Conservatives. The Labor Party did not emerge as a major party until after 1910, which meant that Victoria was slow to develop a two-part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Roberts Williams
Henry Roberts Williams (c. 1848 – 12 November 1935) was an Australian politician. Born in Cornwall to William James Lanyon Williams and his wife, Henry and his mother followed his father to Melbourne in 1860, moving to Bendigo. Williams was educated at Bendigo and became a mine manager in 1874; he was an Eaglehawk Borough Councillor from 1874 to 1877. In 1877 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Mandurang, serving until 1883. He was Minister of Mines from 1880 to 1881. In 1878 he married Kate Gruby at Eaglehawk, with whom he had five children (one of whom, William, played VFL football for St Kilda in 1907). He would, later, marry Louisa Cyrena Davidson. In 1889 Williams returned to the Assembly as the member for Eaglehawk, serving until 1902. He was Minister for Health from 1895 to 1899. Williams died Murrumbeena Murrumbeena is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business Distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Richardson (Australian Politician)
Richard Richardson J.P., (c.1825 – 22 September 1913) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Richardson was born in the Tyneside district, England, and have embraced the profession of a civil engineer, he went to Victoria in 1852, and was for some time in the Roads and Bridges department of the Government service. After spending a year or two in Sydney, he, in 1854, settled as a farmer in the Creswick district of Victoria. In 1874 he entered the Assembly as a member for the Electoral district of Creswick, and held the seat till 1886 when he was defeated at the general election. He was, however, re-elected when the district was resized to a single-member electorate in 1889. Mr. Richardson, who was a Liberal and Protectionist, was Minister of Lands and Agriculture in the third Graham Berry Government from August 1880 to July 1881. Richardson died in Newlyn, Victoria Newlyn is a small, rural town in the Shire of Hepburn, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Wheeler (Australian Politician)
James Henry Wheeler, (14 February 1826 – 10 August 1904) was an Australian politician. Wheeler was born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, England, and went to Victoria in 1854; he was an extensive sawmill owner in the Wombat State Forest. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Creswick district in November 1864 as a moderate constitutionalist, but retired from Parliament in December 1867. In May 1880, however, he was re-elected, and represented the same constituency till March 1889, when he was returned for the Daylesford district in April 1889. In November 1890, on the formation of the James Munro Ministry, he accepted the post of Minister of Railways, which he continued to hold when in February 1892 the Ministry was reconstructed under William Shiels. Wheeler was member for Daylesford until October 1900. Wheeler died in Deniliquin, New South Wales Deniliquin () is a town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, close to the border with Victori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shiels
William Shiels (3 December 1848 – 17 December 1904) was an Australian colonial-era politician, serving as the 16th Premier of Victoria. Biography Shiels was born in Maghera, County Londonderry, a town in the centre of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was born into an Ulster-Scots Presbyterian family and arrived in Melbourne as a child in 1853. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law and arts, gaining a master's degree in law in 1885. He was called to the Melbourne bar in 1872 and was also active in public life, being a noted campaigner for divorce law reform. Shiels was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Normanby in 1880, as a moderate liberal, holding that seat throughout his career. He was Attorney-General and Minister for Railways in the government of James Munro from 1890 to 1892. During this time Shiels was one of the few politicians to warn against the excesses of the Land Boom which swept Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bent
Sir Thomas Bent (7 December 1838 – 17 September 1909) was an Australian politician and the 22nd Premier of Victoria. Early life Bent was born in Penrith, New South Wales the eldest of four sons and two daughters of James Bent, a hotel-keeper. He came to Melbourne with his parents in 1849. He went to school in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria, Fitzroy, later becoming a market-gardener in East Brighton. In 1861 he became a rate collector for the town council of Brighton, Victoria, Brighton, then a fast-growing suburb. He soon began buying and selling land in Brighton, and became a property developer in new areas fairly close by, such as Moorabbin. He developed the suburb of Bentleigh, Victoria, Bentleigh, named after himself. He was a member of both Brighton and Moorabbin town councils and was Mayor of Brighton nine times. State politics In 1871 Bent was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the Electoral district of Brighton, district of Brighton, defeatin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Patterson (Australian Politician)
Sir James Brown Patterson (18 November 1833 – 30 October 1895), was an Australian politician who served as premier of Victoria from 1893 to 1894. Patterson was born in 1833 at Patterson Cottage, Alnwick, Northumberland, England to James Patterson, contractor, and Agnes, ''née'' Brown. Patterson emigrated to Victoria in 1852 to seek his fortune on the goldfields. After a few years as a digger and four as a farmer, he settled in Chewton, where he went into business as a butcher, later moving into real estate. He was Mayor of Chewton for four years before he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Castlemaine in 1870. A moderate conservative, Patterson served in the second third governments of the liberal leader Graham Berry, as commissioner for public works in August 1875 and as commissioner for public works and vice-president of the noard of land and works in 1877–1880. From July 1878 to March 1880 he was also Postmaster-General. After 1881 he went int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Jones (Australian Politician)
Joseph Jones may refer to: * Joseph Jones (basketball) (born 1986), American basketball player * Joseph Jones (North Carolina politician), American 18th-century revolutionary * Joseph Jones (rugby) (1899–1960), rugby union and rugby league footballer of the 1920s and 1930s * Joseph Jones (trade unionist) (1891–1948), British coal miner * Joseph Jones (Virginia politician) (1727–1805), U.S. statesman, delegate to the Continental Congress * Joseph Jones (wrestler) (born 1957), American professional wrestler * J. Charles Jones (1937–2019), American civil rights leader, attorney and co-founder of SNCC * Joseph E. Jones (1914–2003), Wisconsin state legislator * Joseph Jay Jones (1908–1999), professor of English at University of Texas * Joseph Marion Jones (1908–1990), U.S. State Department official and academic * Joseph Merrick Jones (1902–1963), American lawyer * Joseph Jones (ironmaster) (1837–1912), industrialist and mayor of Wolverhampton * Joseph David Jones ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Woods (Australian Politician)
John Woods (5 November 1822 – 2 April 1892) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), Minister of Railways. Woods was the second son of Richard Woods, a Liverpool railwayman, and his wife Mary, ''née'' Cave. After being trained as an engineer, he was employed in Canada and England; and landed in Melbourne in 1852, after a chequered experience at the Ovens, M'Ivor, Goulburn, Ararat and Fiery Creek diggings, during which he was a prominent exponent of miners' rights. Woods was returned to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in October 1859 for the Crowlands district, which he represented until August 1864 and again from April 1871 to April 1877. Woods was then elected for Stawell in May 1877, which he represented till his death. Whilst out of Parliament, from 1865 to 1870, Woods entered the Government service, and was in charge of the works at the Malmesbury reservoir, when he was summarily dismissed on an allegation, into which inquiry was refused, that he had conn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Gillies
Duncan Gillies (14 January 1834 – 12 September 1903), was an Australian colonial politician who served as the 14th Premier of Victoria. Gillies was born at Overnewton near Glasgow, Scotland, where his father had a market garden. He was sent to the high school until he was about 14, when he entered an office in Glasgow. In 1852, he arrived in Melbourne and travelled to the goldfields at Ballarat, where he worked first as a miner and later as a businessman and company director. Gillies was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Ballarat West in 1861, holding that seat until 1868. A conservative, he was President of the Board of Lands and Works in the short-lived government of Charles Sladen in 1868, which cost him his seat at Ballarat, a strongly liberal constituency. He was elected for Maryborough 1870–77, Rodney 1877–89, Eastern Suburbs 1889–94 and Toorak 1897–1903. He was Commissioner for Railways and Roads in the ministries of James Francis and George ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
