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Electoral District Of Glamorgan
The Electoral district of Glamorgan was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It centred on the town of Swansea in eastern Tasmania, and included Bicheno, Little Swanport and the Freycinet Peninsula. After 1886, the seat extended as far south as Triabunna and Buckland, which had previously been in neighbouring Sorell. The seat was created ahead of the Assembly's first election held in 1856, and was abolished at the 1903 election, when it was abolished and divided between Cambria Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, ... to the north, and Sorell to the south. Members for Glamorgan References * * * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956 Glamorgan 1856 establishments in Australia {{Australia-gov ... [...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] |
Electoral District Of Cambria
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The electoral district of Cambria was a single-member electoral district of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. It centred on the town of Campbell Town in the Midlands region of Tasmania between Hobart and Launceston. The seat was created in a redistribution ahead of the 1903 state election, largely replacing the seat of Campbell Town, and was abolished when the Tasmanian parliament adopted the Hare-Clark electoral model in 1909. It had a single member during its existence, William Bennett. Members for Cambria References * * * Parliament of Tasmania (2006)The Parliament of Tasmania from 1956 Cambria Cambria is a name for Wales, being the Latinised form of the Welsh name for the country, . The term was not in use during the Roman period (when Wales had not come into existence as a distinct entity). It emerged later, in the medieval period, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra
Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory at the northern tip of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2021, Canberra's estimated population was 453,558. The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells Cottage. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Shaw (Tasmanian Politician)
Frederick Shaw (28 August 1847 - 24 August 1923) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1899 to 1903, representing the electorate of Glamorgan. Shaw was born at Swansea, Tasmania, son of pastoralist Edward Carr Shaw, and raised on his family's property, "Red Banks". He was a Municipality of Glamorgan councillor for around twenty years, including several terms as warden, and was a long-serving justice of the peace, serving as chairman of the Glamorgan Court of General Sessions and a member of the Licensing Bench. Shaw was elected to the House of Assembly at an 1899 by-election caused by the resignation of Edward Miles. He was re-elected unopposed in 1900. The Glamorgan electorate was abolished in a 1903 redistribution, and Shaw did not contest that year's election. In later life, he suffered from partial blindness. He died at his Swansea home in 1923. His brother Bernard Shaw served as Secretary of Mines and Commissioner of Police. ... [...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] |
John Lyne
John Lyne (7 December 1810 – 14 September 1900) was an Australian politician. Lyne was born in London in 1810. In 1880 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Glamorgan , HQ = Cardiff , Government = Glamorgan County Council (1889–1974) , Origin= , Code = GLA , CodeName = Chapman code , Replace = * West Glamorgan * Mid Glamorgan * South Glamorgan , Motto .... He served until 1893. He died in 1900 in Launceston. References 1810 births 1900 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mitchell (Tasmanian Politician)
John Mitchell may refer to: Arts *John Mitchell (minister) (1794–1870), American minister and author *John Ames Mitchell (1844–1918), American illustrator * John W. Mitchell (1917–2005), British sound engineer *John Grant Mitchell (actor) (1874–1957), American character actor in the 1930s and 1940s *John Mitchell, Canadian ice dancer in the 1962 World Figure Skating Championships *John Mitchell, American jazz banjoist who has worked with Johnny Dunn * John Campbell Mitchell (1861–1922), Scottish landscape artist * John Wendell Mitchell (1880–1951), Canadian author *John Hanson Mitchell (born 1940), American author *John R. Mitchell (poet) (1940–2006), poet and a professor of English * John Mitchell (composer) (born 1941), American composer *John Mitch Mitchell (1946–2008), English musician *John Cameron Mitchell (born 1963), American filmmaker *John Mitchell (musician) (born 1973), lead singer and guitarist for UK band It Bites, and music producer Business *John M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Shaw (Australian Politician)
Edward Shaw may refer to: * Ed Shaw (activist) (1923–1995), American socialist * Edward Shaw (bishop) (1860–1937), Bishop of Buckingham (1914–1921) and first class cricketer * Edward Shaw (politician), New Zealand politician representing the Inangahua electorate, 1883–1884 * Edward Shaw (cricketer, born 1892) (1892–1916), English cricketer and British Army officer * Edward Richard Shaw (1855–1903), professor and dean, New York University * Edward S. Shaw (1853–1919), civil engineer * Eddie Shaw (1937–2018), saxophonist * Edward Shaw (footballer) Edward Shaw (born 1864) was a Welsh international footballer. He was part of the Wales national football team between 1882 and 1884, playing 3 matches and scoring 2 goals. He played his first match on 25 February 1882 against Ireland and his las ... (1864–?), Welsh footballer See also * Ed Shaw (other) * Edward Shore (other) {{hndis, Shaw, Edward ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Meredith (politician)
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Charles Meredith (Tasmania)
Charles Meredith (29 May 1811 – 2 March 1880) was an Australian grazier and politician. He served as Tasmanian Colonial Treasurer for several years in the mid-to-late 19th century. Early life Meredith was born on 29 May 1811 at Poyston Lodge, Pembroke, Wales, the youngest son of George Meredith and his wife, Sarah Westall Hicks. He was descended in a direct line from the last kings of Wales. His father saw service in the royal marines during the Napoleonic wars, and later decided to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania). He arrived at Hobart with his father, wife and family on 18 March 1821 and became one of the best known of the early pioneers. Charles assisted his father in farming in Tasmania for some time. In 1834, Meredith went to New South Wales and took up land on the Murrumbidgee River after being denied a grant of land by Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur. He visited England in 1838 and married his cousin, Louisa Anne Twamley at Old Edgbaston Chu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Tasmanian State Election
The 1903 Tasmanian state election was held on 2 April 1903 in the Australian state of Tasmania to elect 35 members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Women got the right to vote at the election. Elliott Lewis, leader of the Ministerial group, entered the election as the incumbent Premier of Tasmania. At the election, the group lost 10 seats and Lewis lost his seat. The Opposition led by William Propsting won government. The Workers' Political League (the future Australian Labor Party) fielded candidates for the first time, winning three seats. John Earle became leader of the parliamentary party in 1906. Results See also *Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, 1903–1906 References {{Tasmanian elections 1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 19 – The first west–east transatlantic radio broadcast is made from the United States to England (the first east–west broadcast having bee ... 1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swansea, Tasmania
Swansea is a town in the heart of Tasmania's east coast, on the north-west shore of Great Oyster Bay and overlooking Freycinet National Park. It was the first municipality in Australia to be established after Hobart and Sydney. At the , Swansea had a population of 997. The town was formed in 1821 and celebrated its 200th birthday in 2021. History The first European to explore the Swansea area was Captain John Henry Cox sailing from England to Sydney. He took his ship, the ''Mercury'', up the eastern coast of Tasmania. On 3 July 1789, having heard of vast colonies of seals in the area, he sailed along the western shore of Maria Island and into a stretch of water he named Oyster Bay. Swansea was not settled until 1821 when George Meredith, his family and workers arrived from Pembrokeshire, Wales. Meredith obtained a grant from Lieutenant Governor William Sorell to farm in the area around Oyster Bay. The land was developed and made suitable for seasonal crops and grazing stock and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
