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Electoral Division Of South Esk
The Electoral division of South Esk was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1856 to 1999, when it was renamed Electoral division of Apsley, Apsley. It took its name from the South Esk River. Members See also *Tasmanian Legislative Council electoral divisions ReferencesPast election results for South Esk {{DEFAULTSORT:Southesk Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1999 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division
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) created to provide its population with representation in the larger state's legislative body. That body, or the state's constitution or a body established for that purpose, determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. District representatives may be elected by a first-past-the-post system, a proportional representative system, or another voting method. They may be selected by a direct election under universal suffrage, an indirect election, or another form of suffrage. Terminology The names for electoral districts vary across countries and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gibson (Australian Politician)
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Tasmanian Legislative Council Electoral Divisions
The Tasmanian Legislative Council has fifteen single member constituencies, called divisions. Current divisions The fifteen Tasmanian Legislative Council divisions as of the 2016-17 redistribution are:''Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries Act 1995'' Abolished Divisions * Apsley (1999–2017) *Brighton (1851–1856) *Buckingham (1851–1999) *Cambridge (1856–1946) * Campbell Town (1851–1856) *Cornwall (1851–1856, 1946–1999) *Cumberland (1851–1856) * Emu Bay (1997–1999) *Glamorgan (1855–1856) * Gordon (1899–1999) *Hobart Town (1851–1857) *Jordan (1856–1885) *Leven (1997–1999) *Longford (1853–1885) *Macquarie (1886–1999) *Meander (1856–1997) *Monmouth (1946–1999) * Morven (1855–1856) * Newdegate (1946–1999) * New Norfolk (1851–1856) * North Esk (1855–1901) * Paterson (1999–2008) *Queenborough (1947–1999) *Richmond (1851–1856) *R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Rattray
Colin Lewis Rattray (28 December 1931 – 19 February 2009) was an Australian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1992 to 2004, representing first South Esk and then Apsley. Rattray was born in Scottsdale, and was elected Mayor of Ringarooma in 1981. In 1992 he was elected to the Legislative Council for South Esk, which he held until that seat was replaced by Apsley in 1999. He remained member for Apsley until 2004, when he retired; he was succeeded by his daughter, Tania Rattray Tania Verene Rattray (born 28 March 1958) is an independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (upper house) in the division of McIntyre. Rattray was educated at Winnaleah Area School and Scottsdale High School. Before becoming a f .... Rattray died in February 2009, aged 77. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Archer
Richard Clive Archer (11 May 1927 – 21 December 2009) was an Australian politician in Tasmania. He was born in Calder, Tasmania. In 1980 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for South Esk. In the 1980s and 90s, he was among a number of notable defenders of the Tasmanian ban on homosexuality; On 1 November 1989, he stated on the floor of parliament that "The police need to … track down and wipe out ... deviant Aids carriers". He served until his retirement in 1992. Archer died on 21 December 2009, aged 82. References 1927 births 2009 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Carins
Lloyd Horton Carins (29 June 1923 – 16 July 2007) was an Australian politician in Tasmania. He was born in Tasmania. In 1962 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for South Esk. He was Chair of Committees from 1979 to 1980, in which year he retired. Carins died on 16 July 2007, aged 84. References 1923 births 2007 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Officers of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leslie Procter
Leslie Arthur Procter (27 January 1884 – 21 April 1968) was an Australian politician. He was born in Lefroy, Tasmania, son of Frederick and Sarah Procter (née Palmer). In 1939, with his occupation listed as coachbuilder, he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for South Esk. He held the seat until his retirement in 1962. Procter died in Launceston in 1968, aged 84. References 1884 births 1968 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Members of the Order of the British Empire 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Wardlaw
Alan Lindsay Wardlaw (23 July 1887 – 24 December 1938) was an Australian politician. He was born in Avoca, Tasmania. When 24 years of age he took over management of Mineral Banks, a farm near Ringarooma,R.A. Ferrall, "Wardlaw, Allan Lindsay (1887–1938)," Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed 26 September 201/ref> In 1920 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... member for South Esk. He was Chair of Committees from 1920 to 1928. He held the seat until his death in 1938. References 1887 births 1938 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians Ringarooma {{Australia-Indepen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Loone
Arthur William Loone (28 April 1857 – 15 June 1936) was an Australian politician. He was born in Bath in England. In 1910 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for South Esk. He resigned in 1919 to contest the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ..., unsuccessfully; he was subsequently re-elected unopposed in the by-election to fill his Legislative Council vacancy. He was defeated later in 1920. Loone died in Scottsdale. References 1857 births 1936 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Politicians from Bath, Somerset English emigrants to colonial Australia {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher O'Reilly
Hon. Christopher O'Reilly, K.S.G., (1835 – 11 January 1910) was a politician in colonial Tasmania. O'Reilly was member for Kingborough in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 28 September 1871 to December 1882. He was later member for Ringarooma in the Assembly from 29 March 1906 to 30 April 1909. O'Reilly was Minister of Lands and Works in Tasmania from August 1876 to August 1877, in the Reibey Ministry, and was sworn of the Executive Council on the former date. O'Reilly held the same portfolio in the Crowther and Giblin Ministries from Dec. 1878 to Dec. 1882, when he resigned and accepted the appointment of Stipendiary Magistrate at Scottsdale. Mr. O'Reilly was created a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Leo XIII. On 4 May 1909, O'Reilly was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Scott (Tasmanian Politician)
Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Scott may refer to: Academics * Robert Scott (Master of Clare) (1569–1620), Master of Clare College, Cambridge and Dean of Rochester * Robert Scott (philologist) (1811–1887), Dean of Rochester, co-editor with Henry George Liddell of the Greek dictionary ''A Greek-English Lexicon'' * Robert Forsyth Scott (1849–1933), mathematician, barrister and Master of St John's College, Cambridge * Robert Scott (engineer) (1861–1930), New Zealand railway engineer and professor of engineering at Canterbury University College * Bob Scott (ornithologist) (1938–2009), British ornithologist and conservationist * Robert L. Scott (1928–2018), American professor of communications studies * Robert A. Scott, president of Adelphi University * Robert E. Scott (born 1943), Columbia law professor Business * Bob Scott (businessman) (born 1944), English businessman in South London * Rob Scott (businessman) (born 1969), Australian CEO and rower * Robert Scott (businessman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adye Douglas
Sir Adye Douglas (31 May 1815 – 10 April 1906) was an Australian lawyer and politician, and first class cricket player, who played one match for Tasmania. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 August 1884 to 8 March 1886. Early life The son of Captain Henry Osborne Douglas, and his wife Eleanor, Douglas was born in Thorpe, Norfolk, England of Scottish descent. His father was an army officer, but his grandfather, Billy Douglas was an admiral and five uncles were post-captains. Douglas was educated in Hampshire and Caen, France, before doing his articles with a Southampton law firm. He migrated to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) aboard the ''Louisa Campbell'' in 1839. Early career Douglas was admitted to the Supreme Court of Tasmania, but went to Victoria where he ran a sheep farm near Kilmore with his brother. He tired of farming, and in 1842 he returned to Launceston, where he established his own law firm, which still operates today. Douglas was very interested in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
