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David Buchanan (politician)
David Buchanan (1823 – 4 April 1890) was a barrister and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and later, the New South Wales Legislative Council. Buchanan was born in Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland, the fifth son of William Buchanan, a barrister, and his wife Catherine, ''née'' Gregory. Buchanan was educated at the Edinburgh High School. Buchanan emigrated to Australia in 1852, and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as member for Morpeth on 14 December 1860. In 1862 he unsuccessfully sued the Sydney Morning Herald for libel and was required to pay their legal costs. He was drunk in August 1862 and was involved in an altercation with Samuel Terry. In the assembly Buchanan described Terry as a coward, eventually withdrawing the remark. Buchanan continued to interrupt and held to be in contempt of parliament. He refused to leave the chamber, was arrested by the Sergeant-at-arms and forcibly removed. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mr David Buchanan MLC
''Mister'', usually written in its contracted form ''Mr.'' or ''Mr'', is a commonly used English honorific for men without a higher honorific, or professional title, or any of various designations of office. The title 'Mr' derived from earlier forms of ''master'', as the equivalent female titles ''Mrs'', '' Miss'', and '' Ms'' all derived from earlier forms of ''mistress''. ''Master'' is sometimes still used as an honorific for boys and young men. The modern plural form is ''Misters'', although its usual formal abbreviation ''Messrs''(.) derives from use of the French title ' in the 18th century. ' is the plural of ' (originally ', "my lord"), formed by declining both of its constituent parts separately. Historical etiquette Historically, ''mister'' was applied only to those above one's own status if they had no higher title such as ''Sir'' or ''my lord'' in the English class system. That understanding is now obsolete, as it was gradually expanded as a mark of respect to thos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of East Sydney
East Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly, in the Australian colony of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the Electoral district of Sydney City, covering the eastern part of the current Sydney central business district, Woolloomooloo, Potts Point, Elizabeth Bay and Darlinghurst, bordered by George Street to the east, Boundary Street to the west, and, from the creation of South Sydney in 1880, Liverpool Street and Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and ..., to the south. It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-King, Sydney-Fitzroy and Sydney-Bligh. Members for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Stewart (New South Wales Politician)
Robert Stewart (28 July 1816 – 9 June 1875) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to master mariner William Stewart and Charlotte Kirk. His father was drowned in 1820 and the family lived on Broken Bay on the Hawkesbury River until 1831, when they went to Sydney. Stewart was apprenticed as a cabinet maker, and later worked as an undertaker. Around 1843 he married Isabella Craig, with whom he had a son. In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ... for East Sydney. He retired in 1864, but returned in 1866, retiring again in 1869. He died at Sydney on the day of his wedding to Annie Carss in 1875. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Stewart, Robert 1816 births 1875 deaths Members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Henry Neale
James Henry Neale (27 December 1828 – 27 December 1890) was an Australian politician. He was born in Liverpool to pastoralist John Neale and Sarah Lee. He was a butcher before entering politics. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Sydney. He transferred to Hartley in 1869 and back to East Sydney in 1872 before retiring in 1874. In 1883 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he remained until his death at Wentworth Falls Wentworth Falls (postcode: 2782) is a town in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, situated approximately west of the Sydney central business district, and about east of Katoomba, Australia on the Great Western Highway, with a Went ... in 1890. References 1828 births 1890 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-politician- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hart (Australian Politician)
James Hart (1825–1873) was a politician in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Early life Hart was born in Carlow, Ireland in 1825. He was son of William Hart and Mary Cahill. Hart arrived in New South Wales in 1841. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1853. He practised in Sydney and was part owner of a practice. Politics Hart began his career in politics in 1858 when Abram Moriarty resigned from the seat of New England and Macleay in the colony's north. He won the show of hands and was declared elected when neither candidate called for a poll. The seat was abolished in 1859, replaced by New England and Tenterfield Tenterfield is a regional town in New South Wales, Australia. At the , Tenterfield had a population of 4,066. Tenterfield's proximity to many regional centres and its position on the route between Sydney and Brisbane led to its development as a ..., with Hart successfully contesting New England at the 1859 election, winning by a mere two votes, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marshall Burdekin
Marshall Burdekin (11 April 1837 – 10 November 1886) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to merchant Thomas Burdekin and Mary Ann Bossley. Educated at Darlinghurst, he received a Master of Arts from the University of Sydney in 1859 and was called to the bar later that year. He had inherited a large fortune from his father in 1844. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Liverpool Plains at the 1863 by-election, transferring to The Williams at the 1864–65 election. In 1866 he was appointed Colonial Treasurer, but he was defeated at the ministerial by-election, and thus held office for less than a month. He returned to the Assembly at the 1867 by-election for East Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1869. Subsequently he lived mainly overseas, falling seriously ill in America in 1877 and suffering from ill health continuously until his death in England in 1886. His brother Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bligh Suttor
John Bligh Suttor (1809 – 27 May 1886) was an Australian politician. He was born at Baulkham Hills to settler George Suttor and Sarah Dobinson. John Suttor was a pastoralist. On 16 September 1845 he married Julia Bowler, with whom he had ten children. Suttor was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Macquarie in 1867, a seat previously held by his brother William. John served until his retirement in 1872. In 1882 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he remained until his death at Wyagdon near Bathurst in 1886. His nephew William Junior was later elected as the member for East Macquarie before being appointed to the Legislative Council. His grandson John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Secon ... served as an a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Cummings (Australian Politician)
William Cummings (1 February 1803 – 22 January 1878) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was the son of pastoralist Keenan Cummings and Elizabeth Shelly, and migrated to New South Wales around 1822. He became a pastoralist and squatter, acquiring extensive land in the Wellington and Lachlan districts. On 19 October 1829 he married Mary Ducey; they would have eleven children. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ... for East Macquarie, serving until his defeat in 1874. Cummings died at Peel in 1878. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cummings, William 1803 births 1878 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Suttor
William Henry Suttor (Senior) (12 December 1805 – 20 October 1877) was an Australian pastoralist and politician. Early life Suttor was born in Baulkham Hills, New South Wales, the third son of George Suttor and his wife Sarah Maria, ''née'' Dobinson. The politician John Bligh Suttor was a brother. In 1822 his father appointed him overseer of his property 'Brucedale Station' on the Bathurst plains. This turned out to be a successful landholding leading to great prosperity, and was significantly expanded over time. Relations with Wiradjuri tribe During a time of great conflict with the Indigenous Australians of the Wiradjuri nation, who resisted the taking of their lands, both William and George established good relations with the aborigines. They were known to have been close to the Wiradjuri's warrior leader Windradyne during the 1820s, and when Windradyne died he was buried at Brucedale. Political career From 1843–54 Suttor represented the Counties of Roxburgh, Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Close, Jr
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Cohen (New South Wales Politician)
Samuel Cohen (14 July 1812 – 4 November 1861) was an English-born Australian politician and businessman. Cohen was born at Lambeth to merchant Barnett Cohen and his wife Sierlah (sarah). He came to Australia, arriving in Sydney on 19 April 1834, aboard the ''Resource''. He had been sent by his father to take his brothers, David and Lewis, back to England, but was unsuccessful in doing so.''These are the Names: Jewish Lives in Australia1788-1850'', John S. Levi, The Miegunyah Press, 2006. Business Interests From 1835 he lived at Maitland, and partnered with Lewis Levy, later also a politician. In 1836 he co-founded a general merchants company with his brother David, operating out of Sydney and Newcastle. Politics In 1860 Cohen was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Morpeth in a by-election, but he was defeated at the general election later that year. Personal life On 23 August 1837 he married Rachel Nathan, with whom he had seven children. Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Balmain
Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's Inner West. It is currently represented by Jamie Parker of the Greens New South Wales. Balmain includes the suburbs and localities of Annandale, Balmain, Balmain East, Birchgrove, Forest Lodge, Glebe, Glebe Island, Leichhardt, Lilyfield, Rozelle, White Bay and parts of Camperdown and Ultimo. History Balmain was established in 1880 and from 1882, it elected two members, from 1885 it elected three members and from 1889 until 1894 it elected four members simultaneously. Voters cast a vote for each vacancy and the leading candidates were elected. In 1894 it was split into Balmain North, Balmain South, Annandale and Leichhardt, each electing one member. In 1904 with the downsizing of the Assembly after Federation, Balmain North and part of Balmain South were combined into a single electorate, electing one member. In 1920, parts of the electoral distr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
