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Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Council, 1925–1927
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council who served from 1925 to 1927 were appointed for life by the Governor on the advice of the Premier. This list includes members between the 1925 state election on 30 May 1925 and the 1927 state election on 8 October 1927. The President was Fred Flowers. The Labor platform included the abolition of the Legislative Council. At the opening of the new parliament on 24 June 1925 there were 75 members of the council, with just 23 members and Premier Jack Lang had been seeking to appoint 25 new members, however the Governor Sir Dudley de Chair had declined to do so in September 1925. In December the Governor agreed to make the appointments in circumstances that are disputed. De Chair understood there was an agreement that the appointments would not be used to abolish the Legislative Council, while Lang said he gave no such undertaking. All 25 appointees took the pledge to implement the Labor platform, "including the abolition of the L ... [...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] |
William Dickson (Australian Politician)
William Edward Dickson (26 April 1893 – 22 May 1966) was an English-born Australian politician. Early life Dickson was born at Widnes in Lancashire to alkali labourer Edward Dickson and Bertha Stancliffe. He migrated to Australia in 1913 and worked as an accountant for a mine in Broken Hill. He lost his job after opposing conscription during World War I, and worked as a labourer and then as manager of the ''Barrier Daily Truth''. On 22 October 1922 he married Alice Celia Cogan, with whom he had five children. Political career He then moved to Sydney, and from 1925 to 1934 was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council. Involved in Bob Heffron's Industrial Labor Party, he soon returned to the ALP and was general secretary from 1940 to 1941 and campaign director from 1940 to 1952. He returned to the Legislative Council in 1940, where he would remain until his death. He was an assistant minister from 1941 to 1948, and from 1948 to 1952 was Minister for Buildi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Representative Of The Government In The Legislative Council (New South Wales)
The Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council, known before 1 July 1966 as Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council, is an office held in New South Wales by the most senior minister in the New South Wales Legislative Council, elected to lead the governing party (or parties) in the council. Though the leader in the Council does not have the power of the office of Premier, there are some parallels between the latter's status in the Legislative Assembly and the former's in the Council. This means that the leader has responsibility for all policy areas, acts as the government's principal spokesperson in the upper house and has priority in gaining recognition from the President of the Council to speak in debate. Traditionally, but not always, the office has been held with the sinecure office of Vice-President of the Executive Council. The current leader is Don Harwin Donald Thomas Harwin (born 5 July 1964) is an Australian politician. He was the New S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dudley De Chair
Admiral Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair (30 August 1864 – 17 August 1958) was a senior Royal Navy officer and later Governor of New South Wales. Early life and career De Chair was born on 30 August 1864 in Lennoxville, Province of Canada, the son of Dudley Raikes de Chair and Frances Emily, daughter of Christopher Rawson (of the landed gentry family of Rawson of The Haugh End and Mill House)Burke's Landed Gentry, eighteenth edition, vol. I, ed. Peter Townend, 1965, p. 195 and the sister of Harry Rawson (whom he later succeeded as Governor of New South Wales). The De Chair family, settled in England since the end of the seventeenth century, was of Huguenot descent and could trace their ancestry to Rene de la Chaire, whose grandson, Jean de la Chaire, was ennobled as a marquis in 1600 by Henry IV of France. They rose to gentry status through generations of clergymen. In 1870, De Chair moved with his family to England and joined the Royal Navy in 1878 aged 14, being f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
James Cobb White
James Cobb White (29 November 1855 – 18 January 1927) was an Australian grazier and politician, predominantly in New South Wales. He was born at the property Edinglassie, near Muswellbrook, to pastoralist Frank White and Mary Hannah Cobb, the second of five brothers. He also had a younger sister, Mary Sarah. He received a private education, initially at Newcastle Grammar School and then in Sydney. On leaving school he worked at the Commercial Bank of Australia. On his father's death in 1875 James entered into a partnership with his elder brother Francis, operating a number of properties, including Edinglassie, while his younger brothers Henry, William, Arthur, and Victor, formed a partnership that operated another family property, Belltrees. James married Emiline Eliza Ebsworth on 13 April 1882 and they had five children, 2 daughters and 3 sons. In a dynastic union, Henry and Arthur married sisters of Emiline, Henry married Louisa Maude in 1887 and Arthur married Millic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Hordern
Percy Grose Hordern (1 January 1864 – 1 April 1926) was an Australian businessman, politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Labor Party. Hordern was a member of the influential Hordern family and for many years ran a drapery business. Family and education Hordern was born in Darlinghurst, New South Wales, the second son of Edward Hordern (1838–1883) and his wife Emily (ca.1842–1865), née Grose. After the death of his mother, his father married again, on 17 November 1866, to Christiana Matilda Stack. His first home was at 676 George Street, then "Milton House", Darlinghurst Road, then "Chatsworth", Potts Point. Percy attended Newington College from 1874 until 1878, whilst the school was situated at Newington House on the Parramatta River. Marriage Hordern married Annie Wright (1865–1939) on 17 February 1885. Zanobi, in Petersham, was given to the young couple as a wedding present from his family. Business career Hordern assisted in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Brown (Australian Politician)
Alexander Brown (9 February 1851 – 28 March 1926) was an Australian politician. Brown was born in Maitland, New South Wales and educated at Fraser's private school, West Maitland. He married Mary Ellen Ribbands in August 1872 and they had three daughters and six sons. He was trained as a solicitor, but did not practice. He became a mine-owner pastoralist and businessman. Brown was the member for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from February 1889 to June 1891, elected as a Protectionist. In August 1892 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he remained until his death in East Maitland East Maitland is a suburb in the City of Maitland, New South Wales, Australia. It is on the New England Highway and it has two railway stations, Victoria Street (opened in 1857 with the Newcastle- Maitland line) and East Maitland (opened initi .... He was survived by his second wife, Edith Mary Adams, whom he married in March 1920, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan Smith (Australian Politician)
Duncan Malcolm Smith (29 October 1890 – 15 December 1973) was an Australian politician. He was born in Newcastle to master mariner Duncan Smith and Ada Genge. He attended the University of Sydney, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1912 and a Master of Arts in 1920. On 26 September 1914 he married Marcella Gertrude Smyth, with whom he had four children. He became a schoolteacher, teaching at Cleveland Street (1912–15), North Sydney High School (1915–21), Goulburn (1921–27) and Sydney Boys' High School (1927–30) before becoming headmaster of Nowra Intermediate High School from 1930 to 1936. From 1925 to 1934 he was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, first as a Labor member. He was expelled from the party in 1926 after failing to vote for the abolition of the Legislative Council, and in the 1930s became associated with Federal Labor. From 1936 to 1954 Smith was inspector for the Albury Albury () is a major regional city in New South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Murray (Australian Politician)
Thomas George Murray (9 January 1885 – 18 March 1969) was an Australian politician. He was born at Canowindra, the son of George Murray. He was a stock and station agent and eventually purchased large tracts of property. On 25 November 1915 he married Clarissa Grant, with whom he had three daughters. A member of the Wheat Board from 1920, he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1921 as a Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch), Labor nominee. He was expelled from the Labor Party in 1926 after voting against abolition of the Legislative Council, and remained in the Council until 1958 as a conservative-leaning independent. Murray died in 1969 at Double Bay, New South Wales, Double Bay. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Thomas 1885 births 1969 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Independent members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 20th-century Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lyons (New South Wales Politician)
James Denis Lyons (9 March 1875 – 20 November 1955) was an Australian politician. He was born in Brisbane to labourer John Lyons and Mary Sheehan. He worked as a produce merchant and as a grazier near Lyndhurst. Around 1902 he married Sarah Anne Moloney, with whom he had three children. In 1925 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ... member, but he was expelled from the party in 1926 after failing to vote to abolish the Council. He remained an MLC until 1934, and died in Brisbane in 1955. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyons, James 1875 births 1955 deaths Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Independent members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Kelly (New South Wales Politician)
William Patrick Kelly (29 March 1875 – 9 December 1932) was an Australian politician. He was born at Bathurst to Patrick Kelly and Elizabeth Quinn. He attended St Stanislaus' College and was articled to a solicitor, being admitted to practice in 1900. On 26 June 1896 he married Katie Boyle, with whom he had nine children. He was an alderman at Wellington from 1902 to 1920, serving as mayor from 1911 to 1913 and again in 1920. In 1925 he was appointed to 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 ... as a Labor member, but he was expelled from the party the following year after he did not vote to abolish the Council. He remained an MLC until his death at Wellington in 1932. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Kelly, William 1875 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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