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Elias Weekes
Elias Carpenter Weekes (13 July 1809 – 5 August 1881) was an Australian ironmonger and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1865 and 1880. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1864. He served two terms as the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. Early life Weekes was the son of a shipwright at Chatham Dockyard. He had a rudimentary education and work in commercial occupations in England. Weekes emigrated to Sydney in 1837 and had established successful ironmongery and wine importation businesses by 1855. He was a director of The Bank of New South Wales. Philosophically a liberal, he became politically active during the 1840s and 1850s and opposed the conservative constitution proposed by William Wentworth. He was a member of the committee of the Anti-Transportation League and an alderman of the Sydney Municipal Council between 1850 and 1853. Colonial Parliament At the first election un ...
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Robert Campbell (Australian Politician)
Robert Campbell (5 October 1804 – 30 March 1859) was an early opponent of penal transportation and an Australian politician, Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. He was also an elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and later, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Campbell was the second son of Robert Campbell and born at Campbell's Wharf, The Rocks in Sydney, Australia. In 1810, his parents sent him to Pimlico, London, England to be educated and he returned in 1819. In 1827, Campbell joined his father's company Campbell and Co. One of his first duties was in January 1828 to travel to England on company business on the barque ''Lady Blackwood'' (John Dibbs, Master), returning to Sydney in March 1830, again on the ''Lady Blackwood''. In 1829, (in England) he became active in the anti-transportation campaign. In the early 1830s, he refused to sit on a jury that included emancipists in order to draw attention to this cause and as a result bec ...
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Cowper Ministry (1857–59)
Cowper ministry may refer to: * Cowper ministry (1856), the second ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1857–59), the fourth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1861–63), the seventh ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1865–66), the ninth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1870) The fifth Cowper ministry was the twelfth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales, and the fifth and final occasion of being led by Sir Charles Cowper. Cowper was elected in the first free elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assemb ...
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1881 Deaths
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Benjamin Lee (Australian Politician)
Benjamin Lee (5 November 1825 – 15 July 1917) was an English-born Australian politician. Early life He was born at Ampthill in Bedfordshire to Benjamin Lee and Lucy Ann Poulton. His family migrated to Sydney in 1829, and Lee was educated at The King's School, Parramatta. He assisted his father on the family properties and in 1857 established himself as a draper at Maitland. On 21 July 1856 he married Sarah Amelia Stephens, with whom he had nine children, 8 daughters and a son. From 1861 to 1874 he was chairman of the Hunter River New Steam Navigation Company, and he was also a squatter and a police magistrate at Bathurst. Political career In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Maitland, following a bitter campaign between 3 local men with almost identical policies, notable for personal attacks, and fights between supporters at the declaration of the poll. The Australian Dictionary of Biography described Lee as "normally even-tempered a ...
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James Dickson (Australian Politician)
James Dickson (1813 – 28 April 1863) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1857 until his death. Early life Dickson was born in Scotland and was the son of a farmer. After an elementary education he trained as a tailor and came to Australia as an assisted immigrant in 1838. On arrival he established a successful general store in Maitland and also accrued significant pastoral interests. New South Wales Parliament Dickson was a member of the first New South Wales Legislative Assembly which was convened after the establishment of responsible self-government in 1856. He was elected for the two-member seat of Northumberland Boroughs at a by-election in November 1857 which was caused by the death of the incumbent member, Bob Nichols. Dickson retained the seat, unopposed, at the 1858 election, but the electorate was abolished prior to the next election in 1859. At that election, Dickson was an unsuccessful candidate at East Mai ...
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George Nichols (Australian Politician)
George Robert Nichols (27 September 1809 – 12 September 1857), also known as Bob Nichols, was an Australian politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1848 and 1856. He was also a member of the inaugural New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term from 1856 until his death. Early life Nichols was the second son of Isaac Nichols, a former convict who became a successful Sydney businessman and the first postmaster in the colony, and Rosanna Abrahams, daughter of Esther Johnston (also known as Esther Abrahams or Esther Julian). Shortly before his father's death in 1819, Bob Nichols was sent to England for an education and returned to Sydney early in 1823. On returning to Australia he worked as an articled clerk until he was admitted as the first native-born Australian solicitor on 1 July 1833. Nichols founded the law firm Clayton Utz in February 1833. During this period he was also a journalist and editor of William Wentworth's newspaper ''The ...
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Ryan Brenan
(John) Ryan Brenan (1 January 1798 – 5 June 1868) was an Australian politician and an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for 68 days in 1856. He founded, and outlined, the suburb of Smithfield in Sydney. Furthermore, Brenan Park, which is in that suburb, was named after him. Early life Brenan was born into a Protestant Anglo-Irish family and trained as a solicitor. He emigrated to Sydney in 1834 and held numerous judicial appointments including Superintendent of Convicts, Coroner, and Police Magistrate. At the same time he established a private legal practice and was the solicitor for the Bank of Australasia. He owned extensive property in Camden and Maitland. Colonial Parliament At the first elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly after the granting of responsible government in 1856, Brenan was an unsuccessful candidate for the two member seat of Cumberland (South Riding). He was defeated by William Manning and Elias Weekes. Howeve ...
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William Montagu Manning
Sir William Montagu Manning (20 June 1811 – 27 February 1895) was an English-born Australian politician, judge and University of Sydney chancellor. Early life Manning was born in June 1811 at Alphington, near Exeter, Devon, the second son of John Edye Manning and Matilda Jorden (''née'' Cooke).Sir William Manning
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Cowper Ministry (1861–63)
Cowper ministry may refer to: * Cowper ministry (1856), the second ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1857–59), the fourth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1861–63), the seventh ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1865–66), the ninth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales * Cowper ministry (1870) The fifth Cowper ministry was the twelfth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales, and the fifth and final occasion of being led by Sir Charles Cowper. Cowper was elected in the first free elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assemb ...
, the twelfth ministry of the Colony of New South Wales {{disambiguation ...
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