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Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1843–1851
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1843 to 1851. The 1843 Electoral Act prescribed 36 members, 24 to be elected, 6 appointed by virtue of their office ( Colonial Secretary, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor-General, Attorney General, Commander of the forces and Collector of Customs) and 6 nominated. The appointments and elections were for five year terms and thus occurred in 1843, and 1848. The Speaker was Alexander Macleay until 19 May 1846 and then Charles Nicholson Sir Charles Nicholson, 1st Baronet (23 November 1808 – 8 November 1903) was an English-Australian politician, university founder, explorer, pastoralist, antiquarian and philanthropist. The Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney is nam .... The parliament was dissolved on 30 June 1851 as a result of the 1851 Electoral Act which increased the number of members in the Council to 54 (18 to be appointed and 36 elected). See also *Results of the 1843 and 1848 elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 the state capital, Sydney. It is normal for legislation to be first deliberated on and passed by the Legislative Assembly before being considered by the Legislative Council, which acts in the main as a house of review. The Legislative Council has 42 members, elected by proportional representation in which the whole state is a single electorate. Members serve eight-year terms, which are staggered, with half the Council being elected every four years, roughly coinciding with elections to the Legislative Assembly. History The parliament of New South Wales is Australia's oldest legislature. It had its beginnings when New South Wales was a British colony under the control of the Governor, and was first established by the ''New South Wales Act ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Blaxland (explorer)
John Blaxland (4 January 1769 – 5 August 1845) was a pioneer settler and explorer in Australia. Early life Blaxland was born in Kent, the eldest son of gentleman farmer John Blaxland and Mary, ''née'' Parker, of Fordwich, Kent, England. He was the older brother of early Australian explorer Gregory Blaxland. His father died when he was eleven and the family moved to Canterbury where he and his brother were educated at The King's School. In 1787 he joined the army and rose to become a captain. He resigned his commission in 1792 and returned to manage the family estates at Newington, Kent. He was married twice: to Sarah Davies from 1794 until her death in childbirth in 1795, and to Harriet, daughter of Jean Louis de Marquett (a merchant of Calcutta and a former guard of Louis XVI), from 1797 until his death in 1845. He and Harriet had four sons and six daughters. Australia In 1805 John and his younger brother Gregory were persuaded by Joseph Banks to emigrate to Australia. Blax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Phillip Gazette And Settler's Journal
There were two Australian periodicals called The ''Port Phillip Gazette.'' The first was the second newspaper published in Melbourne, in the then Port Phillip District and what is now Victoria, Australia. It was first published by Thomas Strode and George Arden in 1838. The title was revived for an otherwise unrelated Melbourne literary magazine 1952-56. The original ''Gazette'' The first issue of the ''Port Phillip Gazette'', a four-page weekly, appeared on 27 October 1838. From 1 January 1840, it was published bi-weekly, and in 1851, it became a daily newspaper. Writer George Arden, second son of Major Samuel Arden, of the East India Company, passed through Melbourne in 1838 as he emigrated to Sydney as an eighteen-year-old. He returned in October that year with printer Thomas Strode, and they launched the ''Port Phillip Gazette'', proclaiming an aim to "assist the enquiring, animate the struggling, and sympathise with all." They also published the first poem and the fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Ebden
Charles Hotson Ebden (1811 – 28 October 1867) was an Australian pastoralist and politician, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, the Victorian Legislative Council and the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Ebden was born in 1811 at the Cape of Good Hope in the Cape Colony, the son of merchant, banker and politician John Bardwell Ebden and his wife Antoinetta. He was educated in England and also in Karlsruhe in the German Confederation. Early career in Australia As a young man Ebden made several trips between the Cape and the Australian colonies, before settling in Sydney, New South Wales in 1832 and establishing a merchant business. After accumulating sufficient capital, he moved into pastoralism, and by early 1835 was among those pastoralists introducing cattle to the southern parts of New South Wales. He established a run at Tarcutta Creek, before his stockman, William Wyse, commenced two more runs straddling the Murray River: Mungabareena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of County Of Argyle
The Electoral district of County of Argyle was an electorate of the New South Wales Legislative Council at a time when some of its members were elected and the balance were appointed by the Governor. It was created by the 1843 Electoral Districts Act and returned one member. On all four elections, there was only one candidate who was elected unopposed. In 1856 the unicameral Unicameralism (from ''uni''- "one" + Latin ''camera'' "chamber") is a type of legislature, which consists of one house or assembly, that legislates and votes as one. Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ... Legislative Council was abolished and replaced with an elected Legislative Assembly and an appointed Legislative Council. The district was represented by the Legislative Assembly electorate of Argyle. Members Election results 1843 1846 Bradley resigned in July 1846. 1848 1851 See also *Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council, 1843 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Faithfull
William Pitt Faithfull (11 October 1806 – 24 April 1896) was an Australian politician and pastoralist. He was born at Richmond to pioneer settler William Faithfull and Susannah Pitt. He attended school until the age of fifteen, when he left to work on pastoral properties. He was granted land on the Goulburn Plains in 1827 and ran a large sheep stud; he also bred sheep at Port Phillip in the 1840s. On 20 January 1844 he married Mary Deane, with whom he had eight children. He was 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 ... from 1846 to 1848, and again from 1856 to 1861. Faithfull died at Springfield on the Goulburn Plains in 1896. References 1806 births 1896 deaths Members of the New South Wales Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Bradley (New South Wales Colonial Politician)
William Bradley (1 June 1800 – 6 April 1868) was an Australian politician. He was born at Windsor in New South Wales to Sergeant Jonas Bradley and Catherine. On 10 August 1831, he married Emily Elizabeth Hovell (1811–1848), with whom he had eight children. She was the daughter of explorer William Hilton Hovell. He farmed near Bredbo and Goulburn, and at the latter ran a flour mill and brewery, which survives as the Old Goulburn Brewery. He became a significant landholder in the Monaro region of New South Wales, when he took over the leasehold of ' Dangelong', from the bankrupt John Mackenzie, in 1848, and later, acquired 'Coolrington'. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, first as an elected member from 1843 to 1846 and then as an appointee from 1851 to 1856. Bradley died at Darling Point Darling Point is a harbourside eastern suburb of Sydney, Australia. It is 4 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Melbourne Courier
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Brewster
Edward Jones Brewster (c.1812 Has 1812 birth year Has 1813 birth year. – 17 March 1898) was a lawyer and politician in colonial Australia, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1812, and educated for the Bar at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1835, Brewster commenced practice under his uncle, Lord Chancellor of Ireland Abraham Brewster. Soon afterwards he came to Melbourne, and having good letters of introduction from the great Earl of Derby and others, he was, within a fortnight of his landing, made Chairman of Quarter Sessions and Commissioner of the Court of Requests. Brewster was admitted to the New South Wales Bar in 1839. Around 1841 Brewster was one of the first six barristers admitted to the Port Phillip bar (along with Robert Pohlman, Redmond Barry, James Croke, Archibald Cuninghame and James Murray). Brewster was elected to New South Wales Legislative Council as member for Port Phillip District (later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Boyd (Australian Politician)
Thomas Elder Boyd (1802 – 12 October 1860) was a Scottish-born banker and politician in colonial Australia, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1845. Boyd was born in Perth, Scotland, the son of James Boyd. In 1842, Boyd was the manager of the Melbourne branch of the Union Bank of Australia, in January 1854 he became manager of the Colonial Bank. On 1 August 1845, Boyd was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as member for Port Phillip District (later to become the separate colony of Victoria Victoria most commonly refers to: * Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia * Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada * Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory * Victoria, Seychelle ...). Boyd left the Council on 11 December 1845. Boyd died in Melbourne on 12 October 1860. He had married Jessie Small, in Dundee, Scotland c. 1831 and to Sarah Kennedy Young, in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1848. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Port Phillip Patriot And Morning Advertiser
The ''Melbourne Advertiser'' was the first newspaper published in Melbourne, in what was then known as Port Phillip District, and now is Victoria, Australia. It was published by John Pascoe Fawkner, a co-founder of Melbourne. The first edition appeared on 1 January 1838 handwritten in ink by Fawkner himself and displayed at his hotel. Ten hand-written weekly editions were published before Fawkner acquired a wooden press and some metal fount from Launceston. The ''Advertiser'' was initially printed in a shed at the rear of Fawkner's hotel. It sold for a shilling but could be read for free in his hotel. After printing a further seventeen issues he was forced by law to cease publication because he had failed to register the newspaper. On 6 February 1839, he registered and renamed the newspaper as ''Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. William Kerr (1812–1859) left the ''Port Phillip Herald'' in 1841 to be editor of the newspaper; he continued as editor for about ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Curr
Edward Curr (1 July 1798 – 16 November 1850) was an Australian settler and politician. Curr was born in Sheffield, England. He travelled to Hobart Town, arriving in February 1820. In 1823 he returned to England. In 1824 he was appointed manager of the newly formed Van Diemen's Land Company which had arranged to buy 250,000 acres (101,173 ha) of land in the north-west of the colony. Curr arrived back in Hobart in May 1826 and headed north to survey his company's land. He established the company's base at Circular Head by September 1826. Curr was a member of the Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land 1825 to 1826 (later Tasmania). As a Roman Catholic, Curr refused to take the required oath – that he did not believe in fundamental tenets of the Catholic faith and that he deny any allegiance to the descendants of Catholic monarch James II. Governor Arthur waived the requirement and wrote to Secretary for Colonies, Earl Bathurst, for advice on 21 April 1826. In the reply o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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