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Electoral District Of West Adelaide
West Adelaide was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in the Australian state of South Australia from 1862 to 1902. The electoral district was created when the Electoral district of City of Adelaide was abolished in 1862 and West Adelaide and East Adelaide were created. The district of Adelaide was ultimately recreated in 1902 by the recombination of West and East Adelaide. It was created by the ''Electoral Districts Act (No. 20)'' of the South Australian parliament in 1861 but it was not until the state election of 1862 election that candidates were first elected to represent West Adelaide. The electorate at its creation included all of the City of Adelaide (South Adelaide, North Adelaide and the Adelaide parklands) west of the centres of King William Street, Poole street, John Street and O'Connell Street. In 1872 the area of the electorate shrunk when the Electoral district of North Adelaide was created by excising those parts of East and West Adelaide south of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Traditional Owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna people. The area of the city centre and surrounding parklands is called ' in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in honour of Queen Adelaide, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for the only freely-settled British province in Australia. Colonel William Light, one of Adelaide's foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Robert Fuller
Henry Robert Fuller (22 January 1825 – 27 August 1905) was a businessman in South Australia, Mayor of Adelaide from 1866 to 1869 and a member of both houses of the South Australian parliament. History Fuller was born in Cambridge Heath, London the eldest son of H. P. Fuller, a surgeon of Hackney Road, London. He was educated at E. Duke's academy, "Belle Vue", at Ball's Pond, near Highbury, then at Mr. Burn's school, Kennington Common. He was employed as the second officer on several P. & O. steamships. He left the company at Port Adelaide in 1845, and worked as a carter, carrying goods between the port and Adelaide city. In 1856 he and partners Henry Hill and George Mills won the contract to manage rail freight between the port and the city. When Cobb and Co., who had taken over the carrying business of William Rounsevell, decided to leave South Australia, Henry Fuller, George Mills, and John Hill (Henry's son), as John Hill & Co., took over that business, later became H. R. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Bernard Keogh
Francis Bernard Keogh (6 February 1861 – 9 July 1927) was an Australian politician who represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of West Adelaide from 1901 to 1902. Keogh was born and raised in West Adelaide, the son of businessman Patrick Keogh. He was educated at St. Francis Seminary, went to work for P. Falk & Co. manufacturing jewellers for seven years to 1883, and went to Melbourne for a period before returning to Adelaide. In 1886, he was appointed secretary of the South Australian Building Society. He was involved in a range of community organisations: he was one of the founders of St. Patrick's Literary Society in 1879, became honorary secretary of the Irish National Federation in 1895, and was elected South Australian president of the Hibernian Society in 1896. He was manager and editor of early Catholic publication the ''Catholic Monthly'', served as vice-president of the West Adelaide Football Club and was a long-time contributor to '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Denny (Australian Politician)
William Joseph Denny (6 December 1872 – 2 May 1946) was an Australian journalist, lawyer, politician and decorated soldier who held the South Australian House of Assembly seats of West Adelaide from 1900 to 1902 and then Adelaide from 1902 to 1905 and again from 1906 to 1933. After an unsuccessful candidacy as a United Labor Party (ULP) member in 1899, he was elected as an "independent liberal" in a by-election in 1900. He was re-elected in 1902, but defeated in 1905. The following year, he was elected as a ULP candidate, and retained his seat for that party (the Australian Labor Party from 1917) until 1931. Along with the rest of the cabinet, he was ejected from the Australian Labor Party in 1931, and was a member of the Parliamentary Labor Party until his electoral defeat at the hands of a Lang Labor Party candidate in 1933. Denny served as Attorney-General of South Australia and Minister for the Northern Territory in the government led by John Verran (1910–12), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch)
The Australian Labor Party (South Australian Branch), commonly known as South Australian Labor, is the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party, originally formed in 1891 as the United Labor Party of South Australia. It is one of two major parties in the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, the other being the Liberal Party of Australia (SA Division). Since the 1970 election, marking the beginning of democratic proportional representation (one vote, one value) and ending decades of pro-rural electoral malapportionment known as the Playmander, Labor have won 11 of the 15 elections. Spanning 16 years and 4 terms, Labor was last in government from the 2002 election until the 2018 election. Jay Weatherill led the Labor government since a 2011 leadership change from Mike Rann. During 2013 it became the longest-serving state Labor government in South Australian history, and in addition went on to win a fourth four-year term at the 2014 election. After losing the 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Batchelor
Egerton Lee Batchelor (10 April 1865 – 8 October 1911) was an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was a pioneer of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in South Australia, which at the time was known as the United Labor Party (ULP). He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly (1893–1901), leading the ULP from 1898 until his resignation in 1899 to accept a ministerial post in a non-Labor government, with the party's approval. Batchelor entered federal politics in 1901 and held cabinet posts in the first three ALP governments. He was Minister for Home Affairs (1904) under Chris Watson, and then served two terms as Minister for External Affairs (1908–1909, 1910–1911) under Andrew Fisher. He suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 46 while climbing Mount Donna Buang. Early life Lee Batchelor was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1865 and after the early death of his photographer father, he and his two brothers were raised by his mother. Batchelor wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Grayson
Lawrence Grayson (c. 1839 – 7 October 1916) was a mechanical engineer and politician in colonial South Australia. Grayson was born in Chorlton-upon-Medlock, Manchester, England, was educated at the Manchester Academy, and served his apprenticeship as an engineer with Sir William Fairbairn. In 1859 he emigrated to South Australia in the ''Lady Anne'', acting as schoolmaster during the voyage. He gained employment with the South Australian Railways' Islington workshops, where he remained for 21 years before joining the Union Engineering Company as manager, then managing director, a position he held until shortly before his death. He was elected to the seat of West Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly and served from March 1887 to April 1893. In 1892 he was appointed Commissioner of Public Works in the Downer ministry, during which time he recommended implementation of the Happy Valley water project. He was a strong advocate of the principle of private tendering f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Aloysius Fox
Arthur Aloysius Fox (22 October 1847 – 11 April 1901) was a landowner and politician in the colony of South Australia. He was the only son of Rundle Street auctioneer Arthur Fox (c. 1814 – 1 May 1853) and his wife Frances Ellen Fox née Nihill (c. 1826 – 25 May 1895), who established the property "Marybank" near Athelstone (also mentioned in connection with Hectorville), profited handsomely from shares in the Kapunda and Burra copper mines, and died from accidental drowning. Frances Ellen's sister Mary Nihill (c. 1811–1893) married Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore (1811–1891) around 1835. He was Secretary of the Athelstone Institute, and prominent in organising the erection of the Institute building. He was a man of some means, and owned property adjacent to the town of Mintaro He was elected as a Protectionist candidate (and received much support from fellow Catholics) to the seat of West Adelaide in the South Australian House of Assembly and sat from April 1884 to Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Kingston
Charles Cameron Kingston (22 October 1850 – 11 May 1908) was an Australian politician. From 1893 to 1899 he was a radical liberal Premier of South Australia, occupying this office with the support of Labor, which in the House of Assembly was led by John McPherson from 1893, and by Lee Batchelor upon McPherson's death in 1897. Kingston won the 1893, 1896 and 1899 colonial elections against the conservatives. During his time as Premier, Kingston was responsible for such measures as electoral reform including the first law to give votes to women in Australia (and second in the world only to New Zealand), a legitimation Act, the first conciliation and arbitration act in Australia, establishment of a state bank, a high protective tariff, regulation of factories, a progressive system of land, and income taxation, a public works program, and more extensive workers' compensation. A leading advocate of federation, Kingston contributed extensively at a practical level to bringing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Fraser (Australian Politician)
Hugh "Hughie" Fraser (1837 – 10 November 1900) was a politician of Scottish birth in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. History Hugh Fraser was born in Inverness, Scotland, a son of John Fraser (died 20 October 1882), emigrated to South Australia with four brothers in 1863, and went to work at the slate mines in Mintaro. He later started his own slate quarry, then moved to Adelaide to act as manager for the Delabole Slate Company, which he took over when it got into financial difficulties. He reversed the company's fortunes and later ran a marble masonry business on the corner of Franklin and Bentham Streets. Politics Fraser won the seat of West Adelaide in 1878 as a Protectionist, with W. K. Simms as his junior colleague. He was successful again in 1881, with C. C. Kingston as his running mate. This partnership again went to the polls in 1887, but Fraser was defeated by A. A. Fox, his stronger showing being overcome by a splitting of votes. He subsequent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Johnson (Australian Politician)
Thomas Johnson (21 December 1819 – 3 November 1894) was a politician in the British colony of South Australia. Early life He was born in Thirsk, Yorkshire, and served an apprenticeship as a currier, then acted as a leather merchant in Bermondsey, London. He emigrated to South Australia on the Dutch ship ''Fopsmit'', arriving in August 1853; fellow passengers were W. H. Sharland (1828 – 29 July 1911), Joseph Grundy and William Townsend. Commercial interests Johnson and Townsend opened a boot and shoe shop in Rundle Street, then a retail premises in King William Street next to the Gresham Hotel, with his "Pantheon" boot and shoe factory opposite. He later moved to premises on North Terrace. In 1883 he sold the business to Corris, Craig & Co. and retired from commercial life. Politics Johnson was elected to the Adelaide Council for the Gawler ward 1874–1875. He was member of the South Australian House of Assembly for West Adelaide from February 1875 to April 1878 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judah Moss Solomon
Judah Moss Solomon (21 December 1818 – 29 August 1880)Richards, Eric'Solomon, Judah Moss (1818 - 1880)' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 163-164. was a successful businessman, Mayor of Adelaide and member of both houses of South Australian Parliament. History Solomon was born in London, a son of Moss Solomon (c. 1769–1842) and his first wife Elizabeth Solomon, née Myers, (c. 1797–c. 1830). He emigrated to Sydney around 1831 and was educated at Sydney College, which later became the University of Sydney, then for several years was employed by his uncles as supercargo on their vessels, which traded around Australia and nearby islands, and in that capacity first visited Adelaide on 20 October 1839, in the barque ''Strath Isla'' with a cargo of Timor Ponies. He worked for his uncle Israel Solomon (1818–1901), then in 1842 moved to Moreton Bay (now Brisbane, Queensland), where he was appointed Government Auctioneer, and co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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