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Henry Moses (politician)
Henry Moses (2 November 1832 – 19 June 1926) was an Australian politician. He was born at Windsor to baker Uriah Moses and his wife Ann. Educated locally, he went to the goldfields before becoming a miller a Windsor and eventually a pastoralist with extensive property. On 19 May 1857 he married Ann Primrose, with whom he had ten children. In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hawkesbury, serving until he retired in 1880. He returned in 1882 as a member for Canterbury, but in 1885 was elevated to the Legislative Council, where he remained until 1923. Moses died at Potts Point Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney. Potts Po ... in 1926. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Moses, Henry 1832 births 1926 deaths Members of the New Sout ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor, New South Wales
Windsor is a historic town north-west of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is the council seat of the Hawkesbury local government area. The town sits on the Hawkesbury River, enveloped by farmland and Australian bush. Many of the oldest surviving European buildings in Australia are located at Windsor. It is north-west of metropolitan Sydney, on the fringes of urban sprawl. Demographics At the , Windsor had a reported population of 1,891 people, with a median age of 42. The most common ancestries in Windsor were English (30.9%), Australian (28.9%), Irish (10.3%), Scottish (7.5%), and German (2.8%). Most people from Windsor were born in Australia (78.8%), followed by England (3.3%), and New Zealand (1.5%). The most common religious group in Windsor was Christianity (65.8%), 25.2% being Catholic and 23.0% Anglican. The second largest group was No Religion (28.9%). The most common occupations in Windsor included Professionals (15.9%), Technicians and Trades Workers (15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Bowman (Australian Politician)
Alexander Bowman (1838 – 10 July 1892) was an Australian politician. He was born in Richmond. The Bowman brothers: George Pearce Bowman (1821–1870), pastoralist, Robert Bowman (1830–1873), medical practitioner, and Alexander Bowman (1838–1892), parliamentarian, were the eldest, fifth and seventh sons of Eliza Sophia Pearce and George Bowman, pioneers of the Hawkesbury region. He was the grandson of John Bowman. He attended Cape's College at Darlinghurst and Carey's School at Windsor before studying at the University of Sydney, from which he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1858. He moved to Queensland in 1859 but later that year returned to New South Wales, living at Singleton where he became a racehorse breeder and pastoralist. On 25 March 1881 he married Johanna Heuston, with whom he had three children. He served as a Singleton alderman and then as mayor for seven years. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Hawkesbury. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1926 Deaths
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1832 Births
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Septimus Stephen
Septimus Alfred Stephen (8 May 1842 – 28 August 1901), generally referred to as S. A. Stephen, was an Australian politician, solicitor and founding member of the law firm Stephen, Jaques and Stephen. The Stephen family is a prominent legal dynasty in Australia. He was born in Sydney, the seventh son of Sir Alfred Stephen (1802–1894), who would later become Chief Justice of NSW and Lieutenant-Governor of NSW, and his second wife Eleanor Martha . He was educated at Rev. W. H. Savigny's school and in 1858 became a solicitor's clerk, serving his articles with his brother Montagu Consett Stephen. He qualified as a solicitor in 1864 and went into partnership with his brother as Stephen and Stephen, later to become Stephen, Jaques and Stephen. In 1882 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, serving until his appointment to the Legislative Council in 1887. He was severely affected by the 1890s drought, which damaged many of his invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Hammond (Australian Politician)
Mark John Hammond (15 November 1844 – 4 February 1908) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he received a brief education at Newtown before following his father to the Braidwood gold diggings in 1852; the family moved to Sofala in 1853. He became a blacksmith and jockey and joined a Hill End mining company in 1868. On 14 July 1869 he married Mary Ann Fitzpatrick at Bathurst, with whom he had three children. He was an alderman of Ashfield Council from 1876 and served as mayor in 1882. In 1884 Hammond was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. ..., serving until 1887. From 1900 to 1903 he was a mining agent in Sydney and campaigned on behalf of municipal government. Hammond di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Pigott
William Hilson Pigott (10 March 183913 March 1909) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to cabinet maker John Allpress Pigott and Margaret Hilson. His family moved to New South Wales in 1841 and Pigott became a solicitor's clerk, qualifying as a solicitor in 1863. In 1863 he married Laura Jane West, with whom he had two sons; a second marriage in 1883 to Louisa Matilda Jones produced a daughter. He practised as a solicitor in Grafton until joining a Sydney firm in 1864. A long-serving Petersham alderman, he was the first mayor from 1872 to 1880. In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, serving until his resignation in 1884, due to ill health. He was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1887, serving until 1907. He was president of the Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales from 1892 until 1908. Pigott died at Croydon Croydon is a large town in south London, England, south o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henson (Australian Politician)
William Henson (1 August 1826 – 19 March 1903) was a politician and gold miner in New South Wales, Australia. Early life He was born in Sydney to soldier William Henson and Caroline Blades. His father was a soldier in the 3rd buffs who had been sent to New South Wales on detachment and remained, setting up business in George Street but dying while his children were still young. The younger William was educated at St Phillips School at Church Hill and then managed a sheep station. He spent time on the goldfields at Ophir and Bendigo, meeting with enough success to settle comfortably at Ashfield. He married Mary Ann Massey on 9 January 1855, and they had 4 daughters and 2 sons. Political career In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Piddington
William Richman Piddington (1815 – 25 November 1887) was an Australian bookseller and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1877 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1879 until his death. He served two brief terms as the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales in 1872 and 1877. Early life Piddington was born in the parish of Newington St Mary, Surrey, England on 8 March 1813, to parents Bythima (née Richman) and William Weston Piddington. Being from a family of booksellers, William Richman Piddington was initially apprenticed to a bookshop in Bond Street, London. He emigrated to Sydney in 1838 and after farming for a short time on the Hunter River established a stationary and book shop at 332 George St, Sydney (replaced in 1906 by the Eastway Brothers' Building). Philosophically a radical, he became politically active during the 1840s and 1850s and opposed the conservative constitution proposed by Willia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the optional preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confrontational style during heated moments and the "savage political theatre and the bloodlust of its professional players" attributed in part to executive dominance. History The Legislativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Hawkesbury
Hawkesbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by Robyn Preston of the Liberal Party. It includes all of the City of Hawkesbury and the far north of both the Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire, including the suburbs and towns of Berambing, Berowra Creek, Bilpin, Blaxlands Ridge, Bligh Park, Bowen Mountain, Canoelands, Cattai, Central Colo, Central Macdonald, Clarendon, Colo, Colo Heights, Cornwallis, Cumberland Reach, East Kurrajong, Ebenezer, Fernances, Forest Glen, Freemans Reach, Glenorie, Glossodia, Grose Vale, Grose Wold, Higher Macdonald, Hobartville, Kenthurst, Kurmond, Kurrajong, Kurrajong Heights, Kurrajong Hills, Laughtondale, Leets Vale, Lower Hawkesbury, Lower Macdonald, Lower Portland, Maraylya, Maroota, Mcgraths Hill, Mellong, Middle Dural, Mogo Creek, Mountain Lagoon, Mulgrave, North Richmond, Oakville, Perrys Crossing, Pitt Town, Pitt Town Bottoms, Rich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Cunneen
James Augustine Cunneen (22 February 1826 – 19 April 1889) was an Australian politician. He was born at Mulgrave to pastoralist John Cunneen and Mary Flanagan. He was educated at Windsor and became a farmer and pastoralist. In 1861 he married Elizabeth Hudson, with whom he had eight children. In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Hawkesbury, serving until his defeat in 1869. He returned to the Assembly as the member for Wollombi in 1872, serving until 1877. In September 1865 the Governor declared that a member of the Legislative Assembly was capable of holding the office of Postmaster-General, and Cunneen was appointed, becoming the first member of parliament to hold the office so since the establishment of Responsible Government in 1856. He served until January 1866, however his appointment as a minister did not give him a seat in cabinet. After leaving politics he became a land agent, but found little success. Cunneen died after fallin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
