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John Hood (Australian Politician)
John Hood (c.1817 – 22 November 1877) was an Australian chemist and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Hood was born in County Antrim, Ireland, the son of James Hood, a farmer, and Margaret, ''nee'' O'Neill. Early career In June 1840, Hood arrived in Melbourne and joined the firm of Robert Wilson & Company around 1841, later becoming head of the firm. Political career On the inauguration of the constitution in 1856 Hood was returned to the Upper House for the Central province until resigning in September 1859. Hood then successfully stood for the Victorian Legislative Assembly seat of Belfast. Family Hood was father of Sir Joseph Henry Hood (1846–1922), puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria The Supreme Court of Victoria is the highest court in the Australian state of Victoria. Founded in 1852, it is a superior court of common law and equity, with unlimited and inherent jurisdi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hood
John Hood may refer to: People * John Hood (MP, fl.1393–99), English politician, MP for Leominster * John Hood (MP, fl.1421–29), English politician, MP for Leominster *John Hood (inventor) (1720–1783), Irish surveyor and inventor *John Hood (Australian politician) (c. 1817–1877), member of the Victorian Legislative Council, and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly *John Bell Hood (1831–1879), Confederate general during American Civil War *John Hood (painter) (1839–1924), South Australian painter *John Mifflin Hood (1843–1906), American railroad executive * John Hood (naval officer) (1859–1919), rear admiral of the United States Navy during World War I * John Hood (diplomat) (1904–1991), Australian diplomat *John Linsley Hood (1925–2004), British electronics designer *John Hood (university administrator) (born 1952), New Zealand businessman and university administrator, vice chancellor of the University of Oxford (2004–09) Ship * USS ''John Hood'' (DD-6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Howard Fellows
Thomas Howard Fellows (October 1822 – 8 April 1878) was an English rower and an Australian politician and Judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Early life in England Fellows was born at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, the son of Thomas Fellows, solicitor, and his wife Mary Howard. He was educated at Eton College and then worked with his father. He studied in Pleaders' chambers and was later assistant to the master pleader, Thomas Chitty. In 1847 he published ''The Law of Costs as Affected by the Small Debts Act and Other Statutes''. Fellows was also an enthusiastic rower and rowed for Leander Club. In 1846, he was runner up in the Diamond Challenge Sculls to Edward Moon and with E Fellows as partner runner up in Silver Wherries. He was also unsuccessful in the Wingfield Sculls. In 1847 he was runner up in Silver Wherries with T Pollock. He was one of the signatories to the revised rules for the Wingfield Sculls in 1848. In 1849 he was a member of the Leander crew which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
19th-century Australian Politicians
The 19th (nineteenth) century began on 1 January 1801 ( MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 ( MCM). The 19th century was the ninth century of the 2nd millennium. The 19th century was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was abolished in much of Europe and the Americas. The First Industrial Revolution, though it began in the late 18th century, expanding beyond its British homeland for the first time during this century, particularly remaking the economies and societies of the Low Countries, the Rhineland, Northern Italy, and the Northeastern United States. A few decades later, the Second Industrial Revolution led to ever more massive urbanization and much higher levels of productivity, profit, and prosperity, a pattern that continued into the 20th century. The Islamic gunpowder empires fell into decline and European imperialism brought much of South Asia, Southeast Asia, and almost all of Africa under colonial rule. It was also marked by the collapse of the larg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Emigrants To Colonial Australia
Irish may refer to: Common meanings * Someone or something of, from, or related to: ** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe ***Éire, Irish language name for the isle ** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland ** Republic of Ireland, a sovereign state * Irish language, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family spoken in Ireland * Irish people, people of Irish ethnicity, people born in Ireland and people who hold Irish citizenship Places * Irish Creek (Kansas), a stream in Kansas * Irish Creek (South Dakota), a stream in South Dakota * Irish Lake, Watonwan County, Minnesota * Irish Sea, the body of water which separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain People * Irish (surname), a list of people * William Irish, pseudonym of American writer Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) * Irish Bob Murphy, Irish-American boxer Edwin Lee Conarty (1922–1961) * Irish McCal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From County Antrim
A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal obligation, legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council
The following are lists of members of the Victorian Legislative Council: * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1853–1856 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1856–1858 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1858–1860 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1860–1862 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1862–1864 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1864–1866 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1866–1868 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1868–1870 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1870–1872 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1872–1874 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1874–1876 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1876–1878 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1878–1880 * Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1880–1882 * Membe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1877 Deaths
Events January–March * January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom . * January 8 – Great Sioux War of 1876 – Battle of Wolf Mountain: Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry in Montana. * January 20 – The Conference of Constantinople ends, with Ottoman Turkey rejecting proposals of internal reform and Balkan provisions. * January 29 – The Satsuma Rebellion, a revolt of disaffected samurai in Japan, breaks out against the new imperial government; it lasts until September, when it is crushed by a professionally led army of draftees. * February 17 – Major General Charles George Gordon of the British Army is appointed Governor-General of the Sudan. * March – ''The Nineteenth Century'' magazine is founded in London. * March 2 – Compromise of 1877: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1817 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island. * January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the Andes from Argentina, to liberate Chile and then Peru. * January 20 – Ram Mohan Roy and David Hare found Hindu College, Calcutta, offering instructions in Western languages and subjects. * February 12 – Battle of Chacabuco: The Argentine–Chilean patriotic army defeats the Spanish. * March 3 ** President James Madison vetoes John C. Calhoun's Bonus Bill. ** The U.S. Congress passes a law to split the Mississippi Territory, after Mississippi drafts a constitution, creating the Alabama Territory, effective in August. * March 4 – James Monroe is sworn in as the fifth President of the United States. * March 21 – The flag of the Pernambucan Revolt is publicly blessed by the dean of Recife Cathedral, Brazil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Greeves
Augustus Frederick Adolphus Greeves (7 September 1806 – 23 May 1874) was a Mayor of Melbourne and Member of Parliament in Melbourne, Australia. Greeves was born in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, England and emigrated to the Port Phillip District in New South Wales in 1840. He was one of the first medical men to arrive in Melbourne. He was a surgeon, publican and local councillor and was the Mayor of the City of Melbourne between 1849 and 1850. He was also, for a short time, the editor of the Port Phillip Gazette and the Melbourne Morning Herald. He was a founding member of Manchester Unity I.O.O.F. in Victoria. Greeves was a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1853 to 1856 for the City of Melbourne. Then he was a member of the inaugural Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Bourke 1856 to 1859, then Geelong East 1860 to 1861 and Belfast from 1864 to 1865. He died in Melbourne on 23 May 1874, at the age of 67 and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Beaver
Francis Edis Beaver (19 June 1824 – 7 October 1887) was an auctioneer and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and the Victorian Legislative Assembly at different times. Early life Beaver was born in Kennington, Surrey, England, the son of George Beaver and his wife Elizabeth, ''née'' Edis. Colonial Australia Beaver arrived in Sydney in 1833 and the Port Phillip District in 1840. In March 1854 Beaver was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for Belfast and Warrnambool. Beaver held this position until the original Council was abolished in March 1856. He then was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Belfast in November 1856, holding the seat until August 1859. Beaver was again elected the Victorian Legislative Council, now the upper house of the Victorian Parliament, this time for North Yarra Province and held the seat from December 1882 until his death in Brighton, Victoria Brighton is a suburb in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Ward Cole
George Ward Cole F.R.G.S., Commander R.N. (15 November 1793 – 26 April 1879) was a Royal Navy officer and politician in Australia, member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Cole was the fourth son of John Cole, of Durham, and was born at Lumley Castle, in that county. He entered the Royal Navy in October 1807, and served with distinction in various parts of the world, being on several occasions severely wounded. Having been placed on half-pay in October. 1817, Captain Cole went into the merchant service, and commanded several vessels of which he was part owner. After numerous adventurous voyages, and engaging in various speculations, Captain Cole in 1839 decided to settle in Sydney, and purchased land there; but, after a visit to England, he changed his intention, and made his home in Victoria where he arrived in July 1840, and started business in Melbourne. In the following year he purchased land on the Yarra River, and constructed the well-known Cole's Wharf in Flinders St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Turner à Beckett
Thomas Turner à Beckett (13 September 1808 – 1 July 1892) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life à Beckett was born in London, England, son of William à Beckett (senior) and his wife Sarah, ''née'' Abbott. Thomas junior was brother of Sir William à Beckett and Gilbert Abbott à Beckett. Thomas was educated at Westminster School. In 1829 he joined his father in practice as a solicitor. Before leaving London, Thomas a'Beckett published "''Remarks on the Present State of the Law of Debtor and Creditor''", 1844; "''Railway Litigation, and How to Check It''", 1846; "''Law-reforming Difficulties: a Letter to Lord Brougham''", 1849. Career in Australia à Beckett migrated to Victoria, Australia, in 1850 and was called to the Victorian Bar a year later. From 14 July 1852 to March 1856 he was a nominee member of the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council, replacing James Ross. In October 1858 à Bec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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