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John Nobbs
John Nobbs (8 September 1845 – 11 November 1921) was an Australian politician. He was born at Surry Hills to John and Jane Nobbs; his father was a gardener. He attended Sydney Grammar School and then farmed at Colo, also founding the ''Cumberland Independent'' newspaper. On 16 December 1865 he married Louisa Smedley; they had twelve children. In 1888 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Central Cumberland; he resigned in 1893 facing bankruptcy and lost the subsequent by-election. He returned to the Assembly in 1898 as the member for Granville. He held that seat as a Liberal until his defeat in 1913. He was subsequently a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ... fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surry Hills, New South Wales
Surry Hills is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Surry Hills is immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. Surry Hills is surrounded by the suburbs of Darlinghurst to the north, Chippendale and Haymarket to the west, Moore Park and Paddington to the east and Redfern to the south. It is often colloquially referred to as "Surry". It is bordered by Elizabeth Street and Chalmers Street to the west, Cleveland Street to the south, South Dowling Street to the east, and Oxford Street to the north. Crown Street is a main thoroughfare through the suburb with numerous restaurants, pubs and bars. Central is a locality in the north-west of the suburb around Central station. Prince Alfred Park is located nearby. Strawberry Hills is a locality around Cleveland and Elizabeth Streets and Brickfield Hill to the east of that. A multicultural suburb, Surry Hills has had a long ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Adam Ritchie
Robert Adam Ritchie (18 October 1836 – 16 August 1891) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Paisley in Renfrewshire to dyer John Ritchie and Barbara Henderson. In 1848 his family followed his elder brother to Sydney, and Ritchie worked at a woodmill in Parramatta managed by his father. He spent eighteen months at the Turon goldfields before becoming an apprentice blacksmith. In 1857 he took over the family business, and opened a new branch at Wickham, also merging with a Clyde-based firm. He retired from the business in 1884. On 25 March 1859 he married Jemima Fergus Douglas, with whom he had four children. After her death he remarried Clara Henderson, her sister, and had a further seven children. A Parramatta alderman, Ritchie was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1889 as the member for Central Cumberland. A Free Trader, he was re-elected in 1891 but died at Auburn Auburn may refer to: Places Australia * Auburn, New South Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Council
{{Use Australian English, date=June 2020 Following are lists of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council: * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1823–1843 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1843–1851 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1851–1856 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1856–1861 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1861–1864 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1864–1869 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1869–1872 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1872–1874 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1874–1877 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1877–1880 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1880–1882 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1882–1885 * Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1885–1887 * Member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Following are lists of members of 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 ...: * 1856–1858 * 1858–1859 * 1859–1860 * 1860–1864 * 1864–1869 * 1869–1872 * 1872–1874 * 1874–1877 * 1877–1880 * 1880–1882 * 1882–1885 * 1885–1887 * 1887–1889 * 1889–1891 * 1891–1894 * 1894–1895 * 1895–1898 * 1898–1901 * 1901–1904 * 1904–1907 * 1907–1910 * 1910–1913 * 1913–1917 * 1917–1920 * 1920–1922 * 1922–1925 * 1925–1927 * 1927–1930 * 1930–1932 * 1932–1935 * 1935–1938 * 1938–1941 * 1941–1944 * 1944–1947 * 1947–1950 * 1950–1953 * 1953–1956 * 1956–1959 * 1959–1962 * 1962–1965 * 1965–1968 * 1968–1971 * 1971–1973 * 1973–1976 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Trade Party Politicians
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1921 Deaths
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1845 Births
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Jack Lang (Australian Politician)
John Thomas Lang (21 December 1876 – 27 September 1975), usually referred to as J. T. Lang during his career and familiarly known as "Jack" and nicknamed "The Big Fella", was an Australian politician, mainly for the New South Wales Branch of the Labor Party. He twice served as the 23rd Premier of New South Wales from 1925 to 1927 and again from 1930 to 1932. He was dismissed by the Governor of New South Wales, Sir Philip Game, at the climax of the 1932 constitutional crisis and resoundingly lost the resulting election and subsequent elections as Leader of the Opposition. He later formed Lang Labor that contested federal and state elections and was briefly a member of the Australian House of Representatives. Early life John Thomas Lang was born on 21 December 1876 on George Street, Sydney, close to the present site of The Metro Theatre (between Bathurst and Liverpool Streets). He was the third son (and sixth of ten children) of James Henry Lang, a watchmaker born in Edin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Smailes
George Wells Smailes (1 January 1862 – 9 January 1934) was an Australian politician in the New South Wales parliament, representing the electoral district of Granville for Labor from 17 July 1894 to 5 July 1898, and was a Methodist minister. Later he was an Anglican vicar in New Zealand, and a chaplain with the New Zealand garrison in Samoa in World War I. He apparently changed his surname from Smailes to Wells-Smailes in New Zealand. He was born in Durham, England. He moved to New South Wales in 1882, and to Sydney in 1891. He moved to New Zealand in 1902, where he was an Anglican vicar at Te Aroha then Opotiki. He was living at St Heliers, Auckland when he applied to be a chaplain in WWI, recommended by Arthur Myers Sir Arthur Mielziner Myers (19 May 1868 – 9 October 1926) was a New Zealand politician. He was Mayor of Auckland City from 1905 to 1909, Member of the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1921, and a Cabinet Minister. Today he is remembered ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George McCredie
George McCredie (1 January 1859 – 4 February 1903) was an Australian politician. He was born at Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia and attended Fort Street Public School before becoming an apprentice carpenter at the age of fourteen. He worked in northern Queensland for the Australasian Steam Navigation Company before returning to Sydney to work as a consulting engineer. After a world tour in 1883, he lived at Guildford by 1891, becoming an alderman on Prospect and Sherwood Municipal Council, and was the mayor from 4 February 1892 until 20 February 1895. During 1891 he designed and built Linnwood, his home at Guildford. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Central Cumberland at the 1893 by-election. Central Cumberland, along with other multi-member districts, was abolished in 1894 and McCredie stood as the Free Trade candidate for Granville at the 1894 election but an independent free trade candidate, John Nobbs, spli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Dale (New South Wales Politician)
David Dale (7 December 1843 – 22 May 1901) was an Australian politician. He was born at Dural to farmer John Dale and Mary Williams. He was a brewer before entering politics, and also served as an alderman at Fairfield. He married twice: first, in Sydney in 1866, to Margaret MacDonald; and second, on 23 September 1876, to Marion Bertha Cox. Neither marriage produced children. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade Free trade is a trade policy that does not restrict imports or exports. It can also be understood as the free market idea applied to international trade. In government, free trade is predominantly advocated by political parties that hold econo ... member for Central Cumberland. Re-elected in 1891, he retired due to poor health in 1894 and pursued pastoral interests in the northern rivers. He died at Fairfield in 1901. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Dale, David 1843 births 1901 deaths Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Linsley (politician)
John Richard Linsley (30 May 1826 – 4 June 1889) was an Australian politician. He was born at Windsor to tinman John Richard Linsley and Elizabeth Clarke. He was a successful merchant and butcher, and served as mayor of Ryde and on Sydney Municipal Council. In 1846 he married Mary Anne Ackerman, and on 24 May 1860 married Agnes Orr, with whom he had a son. In 1889 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as a Free Trade member for Central Cumberland, but he died less than six months later at Parramatta Parramatta () is a suburb and major Central business district, commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney, located in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district on the ban .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Linsley, John 1826 births 1889 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Free Trade Party politicians 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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