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Joseph Benjamin Olliffe
Joseph Benjamin Olliffe (10 September 1835 – 6 September 1930) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born at Cork to innkeeper Joseph Benjamin Olliffe and Ann Osborne. He arrived in New South Wales around 1837 and became a hotel keeper. On 22 May 1861 he married Elizabeth Catherine Callaghan, with whom he had thirteen children. 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 South Sydney in 1882, serving until 1887. Olliffe died at Randwick in 1930. References   {{DEFAULTSORT:Olliffe, Joseph Benjamin 1835 births 1930 deaths Hoteliers Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly ...
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Cork (city)
Cork ( , from , meaning 'marsh') is the second largest city in Ireland and third largest city by population on the island of Ireland. It is located in the south-west of Ireland, in the province of Munster. Following an extension to the city's boundary in 2019, its population is over 222,000. The city centre is an island positioned between two channels of the River Lee which meet downstream at the eastern end of the city centre, where the quays and docks along the river lead outwards towards Lough Mahon and Cork Harbour, one of the largest natural harbours in the world. Originally a monastic settlement, Cork was expanded by Viking invaders around 915. Its charter was granted by Prince John in 1185. Cork city was once fully walled, and the remnants of the old medieval town centre can be found around South and North Main streets. The city's cognomen of "the rebel city" originates in its support for the Yorkist cause in the Wars of the Roses. Corkonians sometimes refer to ...
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George Withers (politician)
George Withers (15 June 1843 – 31 March 1908) was an Australian politician. He was born in Parramatta, the son of draper Edwin Augustus Withers. He was apprenticed to a builder at the age of sixteen, and became a partner in the List Brothers firm in 1867. On 18 April 1870 he married Mary Ann Callaghan, with whom he had seven children. In 1880 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for South Sydney. Re-elected in 1882, he was defeated in 1885 but returned in 1887; he retired in 1889. During this period he retired from building and became a land auctioneer. After leaving politics he moved to Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ..., where he died in 1908. References   {{DEFAULTSORT:Withers, George 1843 births 1908 deaths ...
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Hoteliers
A hotel manager, hotelier, or lodging manager is a person who manages the operation of a hotel, motel, resort, or other lodging-related establishment. Management of a hotel operation includes, but is not limited to management of hotel staff, business management, upkeep and sanitary standards of hotel facilities, guest satisfaction and customer service, marketing management, sales management, revenue management, financial accounting, purchasing, and other functions. The title "hotel manager" or "hotelier" often refers to the hotel's General Manager who serves as a hotel's head executive, though their duties and responsibilities vary depending on the hotel's size, purpose, and expectations from ownership. The hotel's General Manager is often supported by subordinate department managers that are responsible for individual departments and key functions of the hotel operation. Hotel management structure The size and complexity of a hotel management organizational structure varies si ...
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1930 Deaths
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned of ...
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1835 Births
Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. * January 24 – Malê Revolt: African slaves of Yoruba Muslim origin revolt in Salvador, Bahia. * January 26 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Auguste de Beauharnais, 2nd Duke of Leuchtenberg, in Lisbon; he dies only two months later. * January 26 – Saint Paul's in Macau largely destroyed by fire after a typhoon hits. * January 30 – An assassination is attempted against United States President Andrew Jackson in the United States Capitol (the first assassination attempt against a President of the United States). * February 1 – Slavery is abolished in Mauritius. * February 20 – 1835 Concepción earthquake: Concepción, Chile, is destroyed by an earthquake; the resulting tsunami destroys the neighboring city of Talcahua ...
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Bernhard Wise
Bernhard Ringrose Wise (10 February 1858 – 19 September 1916), commonly referred to as B. R. Wise, was an Australian politician. He was a social reformer, seen by some as a traitor to his class, but who was not fully accepted by the labor Movement. He said, "My failure in Sydney has been so complete—my qualities those which Australia does not recognise, my defects those which Australians dislike most." When he died, William Holman said, "There is hardly anything in our public life which we have to consider to-day that cannot be traced back to his brilliant mind and clear foresight … [Wise] held undisputed supremacy as the foremost debater, foremost thinker and foremost public man in the life of New South Wales". Early life Wise was born in the Sydney suburb of Petersham, New South Wales, Petersham. He was the second son of Edward Wise (judge), Edward Wise, a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, and Maria Bate (née Smith). After his father's death in 1865, his m ...
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Alban Riley
Alban Joseph Riley (8 June 1844 – 24 July 1914) was an Australian politician. He was mayor of the City of Sydney and a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Early life Riley was born at to softgoods merchant Alban Joseph Riley and Juliana Lyons. He was educated privately at , and in 1859 was apprenticed to a draper. He established his own branches around 1868 at and in 1874 at Maitland. On 4 October 1870 he married Eleanor Harriett Birkenhead, the second daughter of William and Hannah Birkenhead, at Sydney. In 1878 he visited India, Palestine, Europe and England. He established an export drapery business, AJ Riley & Co, with branches in London, Paris and Sydney. His private residence was Tulloona, in Gloucester Avenue, . Politics Riley was a Burwood alderman in 1884. He served on Sydney City Council from 1885 to 1891 and was mayor in 1887. He first stood for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1885 election for Canterbury, but was unsuc ...
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Archibald Forsyth
Archibald Forsyth (10 March 1826 – 15 March 1908) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Garmouth in Morayshire to carpenter John Forsyth and Helen Young. He worked on the railways and in the timber trade before migrating to New South Wales in 1848. He logged cedar on the Northern Rivers before following the gold rush across New South Wales and Victoria. He was married three times: firstly on 21 January 1854 to Sarah Corbett, with whom he had nine children; secondly on 24 October 1877 to Sarah Spottiswood Emmett née Blackham (widow of Edward Nucella Emmett); and thirdly around 1906 to Harriet Grace Walker. A general merchant from 1862 to 1864, he established the first rope factory in Sydney in 1865. He was the first president of the Chamber of Manufacturers in 1885, lead the Protection Union in 1886, and helped found the Animal Protection Society in 1873. In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislat ...
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William Thomas Poole
William Thomas Poole (1828 – 7 February 1902) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to farmer Daniel Cluttenbuck Poole and Eliza Quiddington. He worked as a railway contractor from a young age and in 1851 was shipwrecked, penniless, in South Australia. He worked on New South Wales railways and settled in Sydney. On 31 December 1853 he married Emma Mary Slemmings, with whom he had five children; a second marriage on 21 June 1867 to Mary Sinclair Macfie produced a further six children. He worked as a district surveyor and also owned a sugar mill at Kempsey. In 1880 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 South Sydney, serving until his defeat in 1885. In 1891 he was elected t ...
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New South Wales
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James Toohey (New South Wales Politician)
James Matthew Toohey (18 March 1850 – 25 September 1895) was a brewer and politician in the Colony of New South Wales. Early life He was born in Melbourne to businessman Matthew Toohey and Honora Hall, his middle name referring to Father Mathew, the Irish apostle of temperance. On 5 June 1873 he married Catherine Magdalene Ferris, with whom he had twelve children. Brewing In 1870, aged 20, he opened a brewing business with his brother John. The brewery was successful, moving to larger premises in 1873 and again in 1876, and would eventually become the public company Tooheys. Politics He stood as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for district of South Sydney at the 1885 election. On the major issues of the election, he noted that it scarcely needed to be said that he was opposed to the local option, put forward by the teetotallers to reduce the consumption of alcohol, stating that "people will not be made total abstainers by Act of Parliament". ...
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John Harris (New South Wales Politician)
John Harris (10 August 18387 November 1911) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Maghera in County Londonderry to John Harris and Nancy Ann McKee. His family migrated to Sydney in 1842. He attended the University of Sydney, but left before graduating to manage the property he had inherited from his father. In 1869 he married Lizzie Henrietta Dingle Page; they had eight children. He was a Sydney City Councillor from 1873 to 1883, from 1885 to 1900 and from 1902 to 1911, serving as Mayor from 1881 to 1883 and from 1888 to 1889, known for reforming the council and with a reputation for honesty. 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 at the 1877 election, but he was defeated ...
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