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Electoral District Of Hobart
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The electoral district of Hobart was a multi-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It was based in Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. It was created at the 1897 election under a trial of the Hare-Clark electoral model along with the seat of Electoral district of Launceston. It continued for two terms, before being broken up again in 1903 into Central, East, North, South and West Hobart. In 1909, the entire state adopted Hare-Clark, and the Hobart region became part of the Denison division. Members for Hobart References * * * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956 Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 members, elected for a term of up to four years, with five members being elected in each of five electorates, called divisions. Each division has approximately the same number of electors. Voting for the House of Assembly is by a form of proportional representation using the single transferable vote (STV), known as the Hare-Clark electoral system. By having multiple members for each division, the voting intentions of the electors are more closely represented in the House of Assembly. Since 1998, the quota for election in each division, after distribution of preferences, has been 16.7% (one-sixth). Under the preferential proportional voting system in place, the lowest-polling candidates are eliminated, and their votes distributed as prefere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bradley (Australian Politician)
John Bradley (1844 – 14 November 1900) was an Australian politician. Bradley was born in Dundee in Scotland in 1844 and arrived in Australia in 1855. In 1893 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ..., representing the seat of South Hobart. In 1897 he was elected for the new multi-member seat of Hobart He served until his death in Hobart in 1900. References 1844 births 1900 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herbert Nicholls
Sir Herbert Nicholls (11 August 1868 – 11 November 1940) was an Australian judge and politician, who was Chief Justice of Tasmania from 1914 to 1937, and as an independent member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1900 to 1909. In parliament, he served as Attorney-General (1903 to 1904) and Leader of the Opposition (1906 to 1909). Early life Nicholls was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1868, to the English journalist Henry Richard (H. R.) Nicholls and his Irish-born wife Ellen Minchin. He was educated in Ballarat, until his family moved to Hobart, Tasmania in 1883 so his father could take up the editorship of ''The Mercury'' newspaper. Legal career After working as a mail clerk, Nicholls was articled to Andrew Inglis Clark and Matthew Wilkes Simmons, and was admitted to the Bar in 1892. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Tasmania in 1896, and became a barrister. Political career At a 1900 by-election, Nicholls was elected as an independent member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Guesdon
William Algernon Guesdon (6 September 1848 – 21 December 1926) JP, MLA, was an Australian businessman, politician and racing identity. Life and career He was born in Hobart on 6 December 1848. His father was William Andrew Guesdon (1816-1891), a successful Hobart merchant. He was educated at Horton College and Hobart High School. After finishing his education he left for the mainland and spent some time in Melbourne. He then returned to Hobart and joined his father's firm of W.A. Guesdon & Co. On his father's death he became a principal of Guesdon & Westbrook, a prominent firm of auctioneers in Hobart. He later became a land and estate agent. He married Elizabeth Webb in Hobart on 9 August 1871 and the couple had seven children. They divorced in 1887. He married Grace Lilian Eady 16 May 1895 and the couple had six children, three daughters and three sons. Guesdon had an interest in the turf. He was a founder member of the Tasmanian Racing Club in 1875. His horse Darriwell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Miles (Tasmanian Politician)
Edward Thomas Miles (1849–1944) was a businessman and politician from Van Diemen's Land, who during his long life was variously a merchant seaman, a Free Trade Party Member of the Tasmanian Parliament, a Minister in the Braddon government, and an entrepreneur. Life Miles was born in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) in 1849. He worked on ships trading with India, China and South Africa, and after 1879 commanded a series of ships trading the Tasmanian East Coast. He was elected to the Tasmanian lower house of Parliament, the House of Assembly, in December 1893 for the Electoral district of Glamorgan and held that electorate until 1899. In 1900 he successfully contested the Electoral district of Hobart, but resigned after a matter of weeks to pursue business interests. Miles served briefly as Minister for Lands and Works in the Braddon government between May and October in 1899. After Parliament Miles engaged in a number of business activities, perhaps the most signi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Patterson (Australian Politician)
Robert Charles Patterson (1844 – 21 November 1907) was an Australian politician. He was born in Melbourne. In 1900 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the Free Trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold econ ... member for Hobart. He transferred to South Hobart in 1903 and left politics in 1904. He briefly led the Opposition from May 1903 to March 1904. Patterson died in Hobart in 1907. References 1844 births 1907 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Politicians from Melbourne Politicians from Hobart 19th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-FreeTrade-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hoggins
Charles Davenport Hoggins (27 May 1862 – 28 April 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. In 1898 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Hobart. He lost his seat in March 1900 but returned in December, serving until April 1903. His last appearance in politics was when he was elected to the multi-member seat of Denison as a Nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: The ... in 1917 following a recount caused by Walter Woods's resignation. He was defeated in 1919 and died in 1923 in Sorell. References 1862 births 1923 deaths Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Colony of Tasmania people {{Australia-Nationalist-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Propsting
William Bispham Propsting, CMG (4 June 1861 – 3 December 1937) was an Australian politician and member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, who served as Premier of Tasmania from 9 April 1903 to 11 July 1904. Early life Propsting was born in Hobart, the son of Henry Propsting. He was educated at the Derwent School, Hobart, and went to South Australia in 1879 entering the education department as a pupil teacher. He studied at the training college and at the University of Adelaide, and rose to be first assistant at the Sturt Street School, Adelaide. He returned to Tasmania in 1886, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1892. Political career In February 1899 Propsting entered politics as member for Hobart in the Tasmanian House of Assembly, and in August 1901 was elected leader of the opposition. He became premier and treasurer on 9 April 1903, his party being known as the liberal democratic party. He succeeded in re-organising the education department and established a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Page (politician)
William Humphrey Page (1848 – 26 October 1925) was a British-born Indian Judge and Australian politician. Page was born in 1848. Following legal training in London, he served as a justice at the Bombay High Court. In 1897 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Hobart. He served until his defeat in 1900. He died in 1925 in Bruges Bruges ( , nl, Brugge ) is the capital and largest City status in Belgium, city of the Provinces of Belgium, province of West Flanders in the Flemish Region of Belgium, in the northwest of the country, and the sixth-largest city of the countr ..., Belgium, having survived the occupation during World War Onref> His son was the noted legal writer and Prison reform, prison reformer Sir Leo Pag References 1848 births 1925 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub British India judges Irish Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Crisp
Alfred Crisp (19 May 1843 – 29 May 1917) was an Australian politician. Crisp was born in Hobart in Tasmania in 1843. In 1886 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or Lower House, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. The other is the Legislative Council or Upper House. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. The Assembly has 25 m ..., representing the seat of North Hobart. In 1897 he was elected for the multi-member Hobart constituency, but he was defeated in 1900. He died in 1917 in Hobart. References 1844 births 1917 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Mulcahy (politician)
Edward Mulcahy (28 March 1850 – 23 October 1927) was an Irish-born Australian politician. Born in County Limerick, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated in Tasmania. He became an apprentice compositor and established a soft goods business in Hobart. In 1891 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for West Hobart, serving until 1903, including a period from 1899 to 1903 when he was Minister for Lands and Works and Minister for Mines. In 1904, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Protectionist Senator for Tasmania. Defeated as a Liberal in 1910, he returned to the House of Assembly as the member for Wilmot, serving as Minister for Lands and Works, Minister for Mines and Minister for Railways 1912–1914. In 1919, he left the Assembly and was appointed to the Senate as a Nationalist, filling the vacancy caused by Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Inglis Clark
Andrew Inglis Clark (24 February 1848 – 14 November 1907) was an Australian founding father and co-author of the Australian Constitution; he was also an engineer, barrister, politician, electoral reformer and jurist. He initially qualified as an engineer, but he re-trained as a barrister to effectively fight for social causes which deeply concerned him. After a long political career, mostly spent as Attorney-General and briefly as Opposition Leader, he was appointed a Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania. Despite being acknowledged as the leading expert on the Australian Constitution, he was never appointed to the High Court of Australia. He popularised the Hare-Clark voting system, and introduced it to Tasmania. In addition Clark was a prolific author, though most of his writings were never published, rather they were circulated privately. Clark was also Vice-Chancellor of the University of Tasmania. Throughout his life, Clark was a progressive. He championed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
