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Hubert Nichols
Hubert Allan Nichols (26 July 1864 – 21 August 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born at Macquarie Plains, Tasmania. In 1902 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the Independent member for Mersey, leading the Opposition group in the Council from May 1906 to January 1909. In 1924 he was defeated, but he was elected to Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ... in 1926, serving until 1935. Nichols died in 1940 in Ulverstone. References 1864 births 1940 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 20th-century Australian politicians {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Macquarie Plains, Tasmania
Macquarie Plains is a rural locality in the local government area of Derwent Valley in the South-east region of Tasmania. The locality is about north-west of the town of New Norfolk. The 2016 census has a population of 44 for the state suburb of Macquarie Plains. History Macquarie Plains was gazetted as a locality in 1959. The locality was named in honour of New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie. Geography The Derwent River forms most of the western boundary, all of the southern, and part of the eastern. It also flows through the central western section from north to south. The Derwent Valley rail line passes through from south-east to west. Road infrastructure The B61 route (Gordon River Road The Gordon River Road, sometimes called the Strathgordon Road, (B61), is a road in the south western region of Tasmania, Australia. The road was built by the Hydro-Electric Commission of Tasmania with funding from the Australian Government ...) enters from the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmania
) , nickname = , image_map = Tasmania in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of Tasmania in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , established_date = Colony of Tasmania , established_title2 = Federation , established_date2 = 1 January 1901 , named_for = Abel Tasman , demonym = , capital = Hobart , largest_city = capital , coordinates = , admin_center = 29 local government areas , admin_center_type = Administration , leader_title1 = Monarch , leader_name1 = Charles III , leader_title2 = Governor , leader_name2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. The Tasmanian Legislative Council is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that historically it is the only chamber in any stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independent (politician)
An independent or non-partisan politician is a politician not affiliated with any political party or bureaucratic association. There are numerous reasons why someone may stand for office as an independent. Some politicians have political views that do not align with the platforms of any political party, and therefore choose not to affiliate with them. Some independent politicians may be associated with a party, perhaps as former members of it, or else have views that align with it, but choose not to stand in its name, or are unable to do so because the party in question has selected another candidate. Others may belong to or support a political party at the national level but believe they should not formally represent it (and thus be subject to its policies) at another level. In running for public office, independents sometimes choose to form a party or alliance with other independents, and may formally register their party or alliance. Even where the word "independent" is used, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Mersey
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Division Of Meander
The Electoral division of Meander was an electoral division in the Tasmanian Legislative Council of Australia. It existed from 1856 to 1997, when it was renamed Leven. Members See also *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 A ... ReferencesPast election results for Meander {{DEFAULTSORT:Meander Former electoral districts of Tasmania 1997 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulverstone, Tasmania
Ulverstone is a town on the northern coast of Tasmania, Australia on the mouth of the River Leven (Tasmania), River Leven, on Bass Strait. It is on the Bass Highway (Tasmania), Bass Highway, west of Devonport, Tasmania, Devonport and east of Penguin, Tasmania, Penguin. As of June 2021 Ulverstone had an urban population of 11,613, being the largest town in Tasmania. The town is a part of the municipality of the Central Coast Council (Tasmania), Central Coast Council which also includes Penguin, Turners Beach, Leith, Gawler and surrounds, and Forth, Tasmania, Forth. History The town area was first settled by Europeans in 1848, when Andrew Risby, his wife Louisa and their five young children arrived to settle and develop farmland from what was mostly a thickly forested wilderness. Andrew & Louisa arrived in Adelaide, South Australia in 1839 as a newly married couple from their ancestral town of Horsley, Gloucestershire in England. The first of their five children were born i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry (Australian Politician)
John Henry (1 September 1834 – 14 September 1912) was an Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Treasurer of Tasmania. Henry was born in Lerwick, Shetland Isles, Scotland, the third of seven sons of John Henderson Henry, a merchant, and his wife Christina, ''née'' Henderson. Henry migrated to Melbourne with his father and three brothers in May 1854. Henry was for a number of years Warden of the Mersey Marine Board. Henry was returned to the House of Assembly for East Devon on 22 May 1891 and after that seat was abolished, was returned for Devonport on 8 January 1897. In August 1892 he accepted office as Treasurer in the Henry Dobson ministry. He was a director of the Mount Lyell Prospecting Association from 1885. Henry was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Mersey from 16 August 1901 until resigning on 18 July 1902. He was appointed CMG in the 1907 Birthday Honours. Henry died on 14 September 1912 at Devonport, Tasmani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Lillico
Sir Alexander Lillico (26 December 1872 – 14 December 1966) was a Tasmanian politician. He was an Independent member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1924 to 1954, representing Mersey The River Mersey () is in North West England. Its name derives from Old English and means "boundary river", possibly referring to its having been a border between the ancient kingdoms of Mercia and Northumbria. For centuries it has formed part .... He was created a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours List of 1962. References 1872 births 1966 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Australian Knights Bachelor {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hope (Australian Politician)
John Hope (23 July 1842 – 12 May 1926) was a Scottish-born Tasmanian politician. He was born in Aberdeen. In 1900 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly as the member for Devonport. He transferred to Kentish in 1903 and in 1909, with the introduction of proportional representation, he was elected as an Anti-Socialist member for the seat of Wilmot. In 1911 he resigned from the House of Assembly to successfully contest the Legislative Council seat of Meander. He served as Chair of Committees from 1921 until his death in Sheffield Sheffield is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in South Yorkshire, England, whose name derives from the River Sheaf which runs through it. The city serves as the administrative centre of the City of Sheffield. It is Historic counties o ... in 1926. References 1842 births 1926 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Best
Percival Clarence Best (21 March 1873 – 14 April 1943) was an Australian politician. Born in Westbury, Tasmania, he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Wilmot in 1928, representing the Nationalist Party. Defeated in 1931, he returned to politics in 1935 as the Independent member for the Legislative Council seat of Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex ba ..., which he held until his death in Hobart in 1943. His son Charles was also an MLC from 1958 to 1971. References 1873 births 1943 deaths People from Westbury, Tasmania Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Tasmania Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 Births
Events January–March * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song " Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. * February – John Wisden publishes '' The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken brewery founded in Netherlands. * February 17 – American Civil War: The tiny Confederate hand-propelled submarine ''H. L. Hunl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
