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James Pemell
James Pemell (1816 – 26 March 1906) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to baker James Pemell and his wife Maria. He migrated to New South Wales around 1836 and like his father worked as a baker. On 24 December 1839 he married widow Jane Fish, with whom he had three children. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1860. He returned to the 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. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. ... in 1865, but resigned in 1869. Pemell died at Newtown in 1906. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pemell, James 1816 births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Romans as '' Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national government and parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London, governed by the Greater London Authority.The Greater London Authority consists of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly. The London Mayor is distinguished fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Love (Australian Politician)
William Love (1810-1885) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney from 1860 to 1864. Love served as Chairman of the Sydney Revenues Improvement Bill Committee. Early life Love married to Ellinor Robinson at Fintona, Ireland in 1838 and they arrived in Sydney in 1841 as bounty immigrants in the ''Brothers''. The family settled on the Coppabella Run at Tumbarumba, New South Wales, owned by Love's father-in-law, James Robinson (d.1868). After failing on the land, in 1850 Love opened a retail grocery shop at 476 George Street with his son James as a partner. In 1875 William was appointed police magistrate at Gundagai. NSW parliament Love was a candidate at the 1860 election where he was the third of four members elected, with 1,538 votes (14.4%). He stood again at the 1864–65 election however he was defeated, finishing seventh with 662 votes (5.3%). He stood again at the 1865 West Sydney by-election, but was again unsuccessful with 1,130 vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 Deaths
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1816 Births
This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locations. Events January–March * December 25 1815–January 6 – Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow. * January 9 – Sir Humphry Davy's Davy lamp is first tested underground as a coal mining safety lamp, at Hebburn Colliery in northeast England. * January 17 – Fire nearly destroys the city of St. John's, Newfoundland. * February 10 – Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg. * February 20 – Gioachino Rossini's opera buffa ''The Barber of Seville'' premières at the Teatro Argentina in Rome. * March 1 – The Gork ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hill (New South Wales Politician)
Richard Hill (22 September 1810 – 19 August 1895) was an Australian politician. He was born in Parramatta to William Hill and Mary Johnson, both emancipated convicts. He was a carpenter's apprentice and by the late 1820s was managing William Wentworth's Vaucluse estate. He later became a butcher and also owned an orchard at Lane Cove. In 1848 he acquired 76,000 acres on the Liverpool Plains. In 1868 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, where he remained until his defeat in 1877. In 1880 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council. On 27 January 1832 he married Henrietta Cox, the sister of W. C. Wentworth's wife; they had eleven children. A close supporter of Henry Parkes, he was a founding member of the Aborigines Protection Board in 1883. Hill died in Sydney in 1895. See also Political families of Australia A political family of Australia (also called a political dynasty) is a family in which multiple members are in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Oatley (New South Wales Politician)
James Oatley (16 April 1817 – 31 December 1878) was an Australian politician. Early life He was born in Sydney, the second son of Staffordshire watchmaker and ex-convict James Oatley and his wife Mary. His father had arrived in Sydney with a life sentence on the ''Marquis of Wellington'' in January 1815. His mother and newborn older brother arrived free on the ''Northampton'' in June 1815. On 1 January 1839 he married Eleanor Johnson at Sydney and they later had nine children. He was apprenticed to John Urquhart, a coachbuilder of George Street. After his father's death in 1839, Oatley inherited substantial property including a Cooks River grant his father received in 1833, the location of the family estate, Snugborough Park. From 1844 he was the licensee of the Sportsman Hotel on the corner of Pitt and Goulburn streets. He retired in 1852 to devote himself to public affairs. He was a horse owner and a subscriber to the Homebush races. Oatley was commissioned as a Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lucas (Australian Politician)
John Lucas (24 June 1818 – 1 March 1902) was a builder and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. Early life Lucas was born on 24 June 1818 at Kingston, part of , to John Lucas, a miller and builder, and Mary Rowley, a daughter of Thomas Rowley. He was educated at a Church of England school in Liverpool, and Captain Beveridge's boarding school. He left school to be apprenticed as a carpenter, the trade of his grandfather Nathaniel Lucas. Political career He first stood for the Legislative Assembly at the 1859 election for Canterbury, but was unsuccessful. He won the seat at the 1860 by-election, holding it at the 1860 general election. In December 1864 he was elected to both Canterbury, and Hartley, choosing to represent Hartley. He was defeated in an attempt to return to Canterbury at the election in December 1869. He regained a seat in the assembly at the 1871 Canterbury by-election, serving until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Charles Windeyer
Sir William Charles Windeyer (29 September 1834 – 11 September 1897) was an Australian politician and judge. As a New South Wales politician he was responsible for the creation of Belmore Park (north of the new Central railway constructed in 1874 in Haymarket), Lang Park (in Church Hill, between York, Lang and Grosvenor Streets in the city), Observatory Park (on Flagstaff Hill in the west Rocks) and Cromwell Park at the head of Long Bay, Malabar and parks on Clark, Rodd, and Snapper Islands. He was also the author of the New South Wales Patents Act and the Married Women's Property Act of 1879. As a judge he was able, conscientious and hard-working, and had much knowledge of law. He had the misfortune to preside over two notorious cases, the Mount Rennie rape case and the Dean trials, which caused much popular feeling, and gave him the reputation in some quarters of being a "hanging" judge. His friends agreed that this estimate was far from his character, and that though he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Dalgleish
Daniel Cameron Dalgleish (1 February 1827 – 18 February 1870) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Alloa to exercise supervisor Adam Dalgleish. He was apprenticed to an engineer in Edinburgh and then moved to London, where it was difficult to find work due to his membership of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE). In 1852 he moved to Sydney with others in a similar situation, and on the voyage they formed the first overseas branch of the ASE, which later became the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In 1860 he was elected to the 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 Ho ... for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1864. In 1865 he lost a libel case to Thomas Holt. He was subsequently an inspector for the Steam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales
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John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett (June 1802 – 9 May 1869) was Attorney-General of New South Wales, an appointed member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, Legislative Council 1836–41, 1843–56, 1857–58 and 1861–69. He was also elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly 1856–60. He is best known for the prosecution of the colonists who brutally murdered 28 Aboriginals in the Myall Creek Massacre of 1838, seven of whom were convicted and hanged. Early life John Hubert Plunkett was born at Mount Plunkett, County Roscommon, Ireland, younger of twins and son of George Plunkett, and his wife Eileen, ''née'' O'Kelly. Plunkett entered Trinity College Dublin, in November 1819 (graduating B.A. in 1824) and was called to the Irish bar in 1826 and later to the English bar. He practised as a barrister on the Connaught circuit in 1826–32 with distinction, fought for Catholic Emancipation, and was given credit by Daniel O'Connell for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dunmore Lang
John Dunmore Lang (25 August 1799 – 8 August 1878) was a Scottish-born Australian Presbyterian minister, writer, historian, politician and activist. He was the first prominent advocate of an independent Australian nation and of Australian republicanism. Background and family Lang was born near Greenock, Renfrewshire (now Inverclyde), Scotland, the eldest son of William Lang and Mary Dunmore. His father was a small landowner and his mother a pious Presbyterian, who dedicated her son to the Church of Scotland ministry from an early age. He grew up in nearby Largs and was educated at the school there and at the University of Glasgow, where he excelled, winning many prizes and graduating as a Master of Arts in 1820. Stevenson McGill was his most influential teacher; he also greatly admired Thomas Chalmers. His brother, George, had found employment in New South Wales and Lang decided to join him. He was ordained by the Presbytery of Irvine on 30 September 1822. Arriving in Sydney ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
