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Members Of The Tasmanian Legislative Council, 1891–1897
This is a list of members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council between 1891 and 1897. Terms of the Legislative Council did not coincide with Legislative Assembly elections, and members served six year terms, with a number of members facing election each year. Elections Members Notes : On 11 June 1892, George Salier, one of the three members for Hobart, died. Charles Henry Grant won the resulting by-election on 24 June 1892. : On 17 August 1892, the new Premier of Tasmania, Henry Dobson, appointed Sir Adye Douglas to the Ministry as Chief Secretary. As such he was required to resign and contest a ministerial by-election, and was returned unopposed on 26 August. : On 14 April 1894, the new Premier of Tasmania, Sir Philip Fysh, appointed William Moore to the Ministry as Chief Secretary. He resigned to contest a ministerial by-election, and was returned unopposed on 27 April. : On 14 April 1894, Sir Philip Fysh, the member for Buckingham, became Premier of Tasman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tasmanian Legislative Council
The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, Hobart. Members of the Legislative Council are often referred to as MLCs. The Legislative Council has 15 members elected using preferential voting in 15 single-member electorates. Each electorate has approximately the same number of electors. A review of Legislative Council division boundaries is required every 9 years; the most recent was completed in 2017. Election of members in the Legislative Council are staggered. Elections alternate between three divisions in one year and in two divisions the next year. Elections take place on the first Saturday in May. The term of each MLC is six years. The Tasmanian Legislative Council is a unique parliamentary chamber in Australian politics in that historically it is the only chamber in any stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gamaliel Butler
Gamaliel Henry Butler (5 June 1854 – 15 July 1914) was an Australian politician. He was born in Hobart. In 1896 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council representing Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small .... He was Chief Secretary from 1909 until his death in 1914. References 1854 births 1914 deaths Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Colony of Tasmania people {{Australia-Independent-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Lord
Alfred Edwin Lord (15 October 1858 – 11 October 1905) was an Australian politician. Lord was born in Hobart in 1858. In 1886 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ..., but he was defeated the following year. In 1890 he succeeded his father as the member for Cambridge in the Tasmanian Legislative Council, serving until 1897. He died in 1905 in Hobart. References 1858 births 1905 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council Colony of Tasmania people {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Lamb (politician)
Henry Lamb (20 September 1835 – 13 January 1903) was an Australian politician. Lamb was born in Spring Cove in Sydney in 1835. In 1877 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Clarence. He served the seat's abolition in 1886. In 1891 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council The Tasmanian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Tasmania in Australia. It is one of the two chambers of the Parliament, the other being the House of Assembly. Both houses sit in Parliament House in the state capital, H ... for Pembroke, where he served until 1899. He died in 1903 in Bellerive. References 1835 births 1903 deaths Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council {{Australia-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hart (politician)
William Hart (1825 – 7 February 1904) was a Tasmanian businessman and politician born in England. He amassed considerable wealth and served in all three tiers of Government: Local, House of Assembly and Legislative Council. History Hart was born in London a son of William Doubleday Hart (ca.1801 – 1 August 1847?) of Leicestershire who, with his family, emigrated to Launceston, Tasmania on the ''Helen Mather'' in 1833 and established himself as a hardware dealer. Young William was educated at Launceston and for several years worked in his father's business. Around 1846 he and his brother Frank (2 January 1833 – 1 September 1907) started in business on their own account as "W. & F. Hart", which partnership was dissolved around 1871 and later became "W. Hart & Sons" of Charles Street, Launceston. William transferred the business to his sons in 1886. He was one of the original investors in the Mount Bischoff Tin Mining Company, and its chairman of directors for m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Grubb (politician)
Frederick William Grubb (16 October 1844 – 28 April 1923) was an Australian politician. He was born in Launceston, the eldest son of William Dawson Grubb. In 1879 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council as the member for Tamar, replacing the previous member—his father—who had died. In 1880 his seat was declared vacant due to absence. In 1881 he returned to the Council as the member for Meander A meander is one of a series of regular sinuous curves in the channel of a river or other watercourse. It is produced as a watercourse erodes the sediments of an outer, concave bank ( cut bank) and deposits sediments on an inner, convex bank ..., the seat he represented until his retirement in 1911. Grubb died in Launceston in 1923. References 1844 births 1923 deaths Colony of Tasmania people Independent members of the Parliament of Tasmania Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians 20th-century Aus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Henry Grant
Charles Henry Grant (9 November 1831 – 30 September 1901) was an engineer and politician in the Colony of Tasmania. He was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1892 until his death. Grant was born in Great Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, and was educated at King's College, London. He was engineer-in-chief and general manager of the Tasmanian Main Line Railway. In June 1892 he was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for the Hobart division in a by-election following the death of George Salier George Salier (1813 – 11 June 1892) was an Australian politician. Salier was born in 1813. In 1866 he was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the seat of Electoral district of Hobart Town, Hobart Town. He resigned in 1869, .... In August 1892 he accepted office without portfolio in the Dobson Ministry. Grant died in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Grant, Charles Henry Members of the Tasmanian Legislative C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Gibson (Australian Politician)
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Walter Gellibrand
Walter Angus Bethune Gellibrand (17 October 1832 – 5 November 1909) was a politician in colonial Tasmania, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1884 to 1889. Gellibrand was born in Derwent Park, Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania), brother of Thomas and William who both became members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly. Walter Gellibrand was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Derwent on 8 December 1871. Gellibrand was also a member of the Fisheries Board. Gellibrand was President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council from 1 July 1884 to 9 July 1889. He left the Parliament on 7 May 1901 after losing his bid to be re-elected. Gellibrand died in Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ..., Tasmania on 5 November 1909. Referen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Fysh
Sir Philip Oakley Fysh (1 March 1835 – 20 December 1919) was an English-born Australian politician. He arrived in Tasmania in 1859 and became a leading merchant in Hobart. He served two terms as premier of Tasmania (1877–1878, 1887–1892) and became a leader of the colony's federation movement. He subsequently won election to the new federal House of Representatives (1901–1910) and was invited to represent Tasmania in the first federal ministry, serving as minister without portfolio (1901–1903) and Postmaster-General (1903–1904). Early life Fysh was born in Highbury, London, the son of John Fysh and his wife Charlotte. He was educated at the Denmark Hill school in Islington. At 13 years of age, Fysh commenced work in a London stockbroker's office, then he obtained a position in the office of a shipping firm, L. Stevenson & Sons, with Australian connections. Fysh migrated to Tasmania in 1859, becoming a leading merchant (establishing P. O. Fysh and Company), hop-gro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adye Douglas
Sir Adye Douglas (31 May 1815 – 10 April 1906) was an Australian lawyer and politician, and first class cricket player, who played one match for Tasmania. He was Premier of Tasmania from 15 August 1884 to 8 March 1886. Early life The son of Captain Henry Osborne Douglas, and his wife Eleanor, Douglas was born in Thorpe, Norfolk, England of Scottish descent. His father was an army officer, but his grandfather, Billy Douglas was an admiral and five uncles were post-captains. Douglas was educated in Hampshire and Caen, France, before doing his articles with a Southampton law firm. He migrated to Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) aboard the ''Louisa Campbell'' in 1839. Early career Douglas was admitted to the Supreme Court of Tasmania, but went to Victoria where he ran a sheep farm near Kilmore with his brother. He tired of farming, and in 1842 he returned to Launceston, where he established his own law firm, which still operates today. Douglas was very interested in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Dodery
William Dodery (August 1819 – 26 January 1912) was an Australian politician. Born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, Dodery arrived in Sydney (New South Wales) with his father in 1825, and then moved to Launceston (Van Diemen's Land) six years later. He married Mary Webb at Longford in 1842 and became a land-owner and business proprietor, building the Blenheim Hotel there and establishing a coach-line for passengers between Launceston and the town. He was elected to the House of Assembly for Norfolk Plains in 1861, and was re-elected in November 1862 and in October 1866, serving until his resignation in 1870 due to business commitments. In March 1877 he returned to political life and was elected to the Tasmanian Legislative Council seat of Longford, continuing when his seat was redistributed as Westmorland Westmorland (, formerly also spelt ''Westmoreland'';R. Wilkinson The British Isles, Sheet The British IslesVision of Britain/ref> is a historic county in North West Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
