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David Ryrie
David Ryrie (16 August 1829 – 13 July 1893) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to pastoralist Stewart Ryrie and Isabella Cassels. A pastoralist himself, he ran a number of properties with his brother Alexander. On 8 November 1865 he married Ellen Eliza Faunce, with whom he had eleven children. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Monaro in an 1884 by-election, but did not re-contest the general election the following year. Ryrie died in Sydney in 1893. See also * Stewart Ryrie, his father * Alexander Ryrie, his brother * William Ryrie William Ryrie (1805—1856) was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist and pioneer settler colonist of the Braidwood district of New South Wales and the Port Phillip District (now Victoria). Early life William Ryrie was the eldest son of Stew ..., his half brother. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ryrie, David 1829 births 1893 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Mountains to the west, Hawkesbury to the north, the Royal National Park to the south and Macarthur to the south-west. Sydney is made up of 658 suburbs, spread across 33 local government areas. Residents of the city are known as "Sydneysiders". The 2021 census recorded the population of Greater Sydney as 5,231,150, meaning the city is home to approximately 66% of the state's population. Estimated resident population, 30 June 2017. Nicknames of the city include the 'Emerald City' and the 'Harbour City'. Aboriginal Australians have inhabited the Greater Sydney region for at least 30,000 years, and Aboriginal engravings and cultural sites are common throughout Greater Sydney. The traditional custodians of the land on which modern Sydney stands are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stewart Ryrie (colonial Settler)
Stewart Ryrie (1778—1852) was a colonial settler of New South Wales and patriarch of the Ryrie family of colonial settlers. He was born at Caithness in Scotland in 1778. He served in the British Army, as Deputy-Assistant Commissary General—a rank equivalent to Lieutenant—on the staff of Commissary General Sir Robert Hugh Kennedy, during the Peninsula War, and was said to have been present at the Battle of Waterloo. Ryrie came to New South Wales, in 1825, as the new Deputy Commissary General—a rank equivalent to a Lieutenant Colonel or Major—to work in the Commissariat Department of the colony. He brought his family with him. His first wife Anne (née Stewart) had died in 1816, and he married Isabella (née Cassels), prior to leaving Scotland in 1825. He had six children—four sons and two daughters—from his first marriage, and another three sons were born in Australia from his second marriage. The Governor of New South Wales, between 1824 and 1831 was Ralph Darlin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Ryrie
Alexander Ryrie (27 December 1827 – 29 May 1909) was an Australian politician, who was born in Sydney to Stewart Ryrie, a pastoralist and deputy commissary-general, and his second wife, Isabella Cassels. He farmed with his brothers in the Monaro district, notably near Bombala and Michelago. On 5 July 1860, he married Charlotte Faunce, with whom he had nine children, including Major General Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie and William M. Ryrie. In 1880, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Braidwood, serving until his defeat in 1891. In 1892, he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until his death at Paddington on 29 May 1909. See also * Stewart Ryrie, his father * David Ryrie, his brother * William Ryrie, his half brother * Stewart Ryrie, Junior, his half brother * Granville Ryrie Major General Sir Granville de Laune Ryrie, (1 July 1865 – 2 October 1937) was an Australian soldier, pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confrontational style during heated moments and the "savage political theatre and the bloodlust of its professional players" attributed in part to executive dominance. History The Legislativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Monaro
Monaro, also known as Maneroo (1856–1858), Monara (1858–1879) and Manaro (1894–1904) is an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is currently represented by Nichole Overall of the National Party of Australia – NSW, National Party. Monaro is a regional district in the south of the state. It encompasses the Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council and Snowy Monaro Regional Council. Its significant population centres include Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Queanbeyan, Bungendore, New South Wales, Bungendore, Braidwood, New South Wales, Braidwood, Cooma, New South Wales, Cooma, Bombala, New South Wales, Bombala, Captains Flat, New South Wales, Captains Flat, Nimmitabel, New South Wales, Nimmitabel, Delegate, New South Wales, Delegate, Bredbo, New South Wales, Bredbo, Michelago, New South Wales, Michelago, Berridale, New South Wales, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ryrie
William Ryrie (1805—1856) was a Scottish-born Australian pastoralist and pioneer settler colonist of the Braidwood district of New South Wales and the Port Phillip District (now Victoria). Early life William Ryrie was the eldest son of Stewart Ryrie (1778—1852) and his first wife Ann Stewart. He was born on 9 February 1805, at Thurso, Caithness, Scotland. He came to Australia in 1825, as a free settler, with his father, the new Deputy Commissary General, and the rest of his immediate family. His deceased mother, Anne, was the sister of William Stewart (1769—1854), who until 1827, was Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, under Governor Ralph Darling. One of his younger brothers was Stewart Ryrie, Junior, who settled at Jindabyne. Alexander Ryrie, David Ryrie and John Ryrie were his Australian-born half-siblings. Work In 1827, William took up a land grant at Larbert in the Braidwood district, which was named Arnprior, after the childhood home of his father's second wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Lucas Tooth
Sir Robert Lucas Lucas-Tooth, 1st Baronet (7 December 1844 – 19 February 1915) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney, the son of Edwin Tooth and Sarah Lucas, and was educated at Eton College. He returned to Australia in 1863, joining the family firm and becoming involved in the brewery business. He owned land near Bega. On 2 January 1873, he married Helen Tooth, his first cousin who was a daughter of Frederick Tooth; they had six children. From 1875 he had built an impressive mansion, Swifts, in the Sydney harbour suburb of Darling Point, New South Wales, which was designed in the Gothic revival style. From 1880 to 1884 he represented Monaro in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. In 1889, he settled in England, although he remained involved in Australian interests and visited frequently. In 1895 he ran as a Conservative for the House of Commons, but he was defeated. In 1904, he took the name Lucas-Tooth and was created a baronet. In 1910, he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Badgery
Henry Septimus Badgery (9 December 1840 – 23 August 1917) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Badgery was born at Sutton Forest, New South Wales, and married, in 1869, Julia, daughter of G. M. Pitt, of Sydney. He was member for East Maitland in the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales from 5 June 1878 to 9 November 1880, and was afterwards twice elected for Monaro, serving from 2 December 1880 to 7 October 1885. Having joined the Dibbs Ministry as Secretary for Public Works, on 7 October 1885, he was defeated at Camden 12 days later and resigned office on the 31st of the same month. Following the death of his first wife in 1894 at age 52, Badgery married a second time to Alice May King in 1896 who died late that year aged 38. He then married a third time in 1900 to Sybella Louisa, Hooke. Badgery had six children, four sons and two daughters, in his first marriage and three children, two sons and a daughter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Dawson (Australian Politician)
Henry Dawson (4 December 1849 – 1 January 1919) was an Australian politician. He was born at Cooma to police magistrate Robert Dawson and Margaret Hartnett. He became a solicitor, practising at Cooma and from 1886 at Sydney. In 1874 he married Helena Druitt, with whom he had two daughters. In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Monaro. A Protectionist, he held the seat until his defeat in 1894. Dawson died at Dulwich Hill Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7.5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Dulwich Hill stretche ... in 1919. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dawson, Henry 1849 births 1919 deaths Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Protectionist Party politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harold Stephen
Harold Wilberforce Hindmarsh Stephen (1841 – 30 November 1889) was an Australian politician. He was born at Penzance in Cornwall to land speculator George Milner Stephen, who would later act as Governor of South Australia, and Mary Hindmarsh, daughter of Rear Admiral Sir John Hindmarsh, South Australia's first governor. He was educated in Melbourne and in Germany. A journalist, he edited two short-lived publications of his own, the ''Athenaeum'' and the ''Critic'', and was briefly editor of the ''Sydney Punch''. His family was highly influential in New South Wales: Sir Alfred Stephen was his uncle and Sir Henry Stephen, Montagu Stephen and Septimus Stephen were all cousins. In 1885 Harold Stephen 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 Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 Births
Eighteen or 18 may refer to: * 18 (number), the natural number following 17 and preceding 19 * one of the years 18 BC, AD 18, 1918, 2018 Film, television and entertainment * ''18'' (film), a 1993 Taiwanese experimental film based on the short story ''God's Dice'' * ''Eighteen'' (film), a 2005 Canadian dramatic feature film * 18 (British Board of Film Classification), a film rating in the United Kingdom, also used in Ireland by the Irish Film Classification Office * 18 (''Dragon Ball''), a character in the ''Dragon Ball'' franchise * "Eighteen", a 2006 episode of the animated television series ''12 oz. Mouse'' Music Albums * ''18'' (Moby album), 2002 * ''18'' (Nana Kitade album), 2005 * '' 18...'', 2009 debut album by G.E.M. Songs * "18" (5 Seconds of Summer song), from their 2014 eponymous debut album * "18" (One Direction song), from their 2014 studio album ''Four'' * "18", by Anarbor from their 2013 studio album '' Burnout'' * "I'm Eighteen", by Alice Cooper common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1893 Deaths
Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; the charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison. * January 13 ** The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom has its first meeting. ** U.S. Marines from the ''USS Boston'' land in Honolulu, Hawaii, to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution. * January 15 – The ''Telefon Hírmondó'' service starts with around 60 subscribers, in Budapest. * January 17 – Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii: Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizen's Committee of Public Safety in Hawaii, with the intervention of the United States Marine Corps, overthrow the government of Queen Liliuokalani. * January 21 ** The Cherry Sisters first perform in Marion, Iowa. ** The Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
