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Electoral Results For The District Of East Macquarie
East Macquarie, an electoral district An electoral district, also known as an election district, legislative district, voting district, constituency, riding, ward, division, or (election) precinct is a subdivision of a larger state (a country, administrative region, or other polity ... of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1894. __NOTOC__ Election results Elections in the 1890s 1892 by-election 1891 Elections in the 1880s 1889 1887 1885 1882 July 1882 by-election January 1882 by-election 1880 Elections in the 1870s 1879 by-election 1878 by-election 1877 1875 1873 by-election 1872 Elections in the 1860s 1869 1867 by-election 1864 1864 by-election 1860 1860 by-election Elections in the 1850s 1859 by-election 1859 Notes References {{DEFAULTSORT:East Macquarie New South Wales state electoral results by district ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of East Macquarie
East Macquarie was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ... between 1859 and 1894, in the Bathurst region. It was represented by two members, with voters casting two votes and the first two candidates being elected. Members for East Macquarie Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales 1859 establishments in Australia 1894 disestablishments in Australia Constituencies established in 1859 Constituencies disestablished in 1894 {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...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] |
1879 By-election
Events January–March * January 1 – The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. * January 11 – The Anglo-Zulu War begins. * January 22 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Isandlwana: A force of 1,200 British soldiers is wiped out by over 20,000 Zulu warriors. * January 23 – Anglo-Zulu War – Battle of Rorke's Drift: Following the previous day's defeat, a smaller British force of 140 successfully repels an attack by 4,000 Zulus. * February 3 – Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne (England) becomes the world's first public highway to be lit by the electric incandescent light bulb invented by Joseph Swan. * February 8 – At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute, engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes the global adoption of standard time. * March 3 – United States Geological Survey is founded. * March 11 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Webb
Edmund Webb (4 September 1830 – 24 June 1899) was a Cornish-born Australian politician. He was born at Liskeard in Cornwall to farmer Thomas Webb and Catherine Geake. He arrived in Sydney with his family on 13 September 1847 and worked as a draper at Bathurst, opening his own business in 1851. On 18 January 1854 he married Selina Jane Jones; they had five children. His drapery was successful and he soon supplied much of western New South Wales. In 1863 he was elected to Bathurst Council; he served as mayor in 1866 and 1868, and from 1875–77. In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Macquarie, serving until his defeat in 1874. He was returned for East Macquarie in 1878, serving until his resignation in 1881. In 1882 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 By-election
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robertson (premier)
Sir John Robertson, (15 October 1816 – 8 May 1891) was a London-born Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales on five occasions. Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters. Robertson was elected to Parliament in 1856 supporting manhood suffrage, secret ballot, electorates based on equal populations, abolition of state aid to religion, government non-denominational schools, free trade, and land reform. He saw free selection of crown land before survey as the key to social reform with poor settlers being able to occupy agricultural and pastoral land, even that occupied by lease-holding squatters. This insight enabled him to dominate the politics of 1856–61. Biography Robertson was born at Bow, London, the fourth child and third son of James Robertson, a watchmaker and pastoralist from Scotland, and English woman Anna Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877
Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876 – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana. * January 20 – The Conference of Constantinople ends, with Ottoman Turkey rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions. * January 29 – The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected samurai in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees. * February 17 – Major General Charles George Gordon of the British Army is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan. * March – ''The Nineteenth Century'' magazine is founded in London. * March 2 – Compromise of 1877: The 1876 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Suttor, Jr
William is a masculine given name of Norman French origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Liam, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the German given name ''Wilhelm''. Both ultimately descend from Proto-Germanic ''*Wiljahelmaz'', with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name ''Vilhjalmr'' and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin ''Willelmus''. The Proto-Germanic name is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Booth (Australian Politician)
John Booth (27 February 1822 – 11 April 1898) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in Bermondsey in London; his father, Henry Booth, was a corn-factor. He went to sea in 1833, settled in Sydney in 1839 and learned shipbuilding on Brisbane Water, before moving to Balmain around 1854. In 1850 he married Susannah Wetherall, with whom he had eleven children. He was Balmain's first mayor in 1867 and by 1870 owned successful sawmills at Balmain and on the Manning River. He went to England in 1870, and in 1872 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney. Defeated in 1874, he was elected for East Macquarie later in the election period in 1875. In 1874 his mills were burned down, and despite only having partial insurance he rebuilt them. He was defeated running for re-election in 1877. Booth died at Bundanoon Bundanoon is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire, on Gandangarra an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875
Events January–March * January 1 – The Midland Railway of England abolishes the Second Class passenger category, leaving First Class and Third Class. Other British railway companies follow Midland's lead during the rest of the year (Third Class is renamed Second Class in 1956). * January 5 – The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris. * January 12 – Guangxu becomes the 11th Qing Dynasty Emperor of China at the age of 3, in succession to his cousin. * January 14 – The newly proclaimed King Alfonso XII of Spain (Queen Isabella II's son) arrives in Spain to restore the monarchy during the Third Carlist War. * February 3 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Lácar: Carlist commander Torcuato Mendíri secures a brilliant victory, when he surprises and routs a Government force under General Enrique Bargés at Lácar, east of Estella, nearly capturing newly crowned King Alfonso XII. The Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Cooper (New South Wales Politician)
Walter Hampson Cooper (6 July 1842 – 26 July 1880) was an Australian politician. He was born at Liverpool, New South Wales, Liverpool to Joshua Cooper and Anne Jane Thompson. He worked as a journalist, first for the Queensland ''Guardian'' and then for the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' and the ''The Argus (Melbourne), Argus''. In 1867 he married Ellen Elizabeth Kelly, with whom he had six children. In 1873 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Electoral district of East Macquarie, East Macquarie, but he was defeated in 1874. He was called to the bar in 1875 and continued to work as an electoral organiser for Henry Parkes. Cooper died in 1880. Works * Colonial Experience References {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooper, Walter 1842 births 1880 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1873 By-election
Events January–March * January 1 ** Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar. ** The California Penal Code goes into effect. * January 17 – American Indian Wars: Modoc War: First Battle of the Stronghold – Modoc Indians defeat the United States Army. * February 11 – The Spanish Cortes deposes King Amadeus I, and proclaims the First Spanish Republic. * February 12 ** Emilio Castelar, the former foreign minister, becomes prime minister of the new Spanish Republic. ** The Coinage Act of 1873 in the United States is signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant; coming into effect on April 1, it ends bimetallism in the U.S., and places the country on the gold standard. * February 20 ** The University of California opens its first medical school in San Francisco. ** British naval officer John Moresby discovers the site of Port Moresby, and claims the land for Britain. * March 3 – Censorship: The United States Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
