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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1851–1853
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council, as appointed to the inaugural Council of 1851 or elected at the 1851 Victorian Legislative Council election, 1851 election. From 1851 to 1856 the original Legislative Council was Unicameralism, unicameral (a single chamber) and consisted of Electoral districts. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). : Redmond Barry resigned June 1852, replaced as Solicitor-General from 13 April 1852 by Edward Williams (Victorian judge), Edward Williams. Williams was replaced by James Croke from 21 July 1852. : Dight died 9 October 1852, replaced by William Nicholson (Australian politician), William Nicholson, by-election November 1852 : Dunlop died 21 June 1852, replaced by Joseph Anderson (Commandant), Joseph Anderson on 14 July 1852 : Ebden resigned October 1852, replaced by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council (VLC) is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although, it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for elections for the Legislative Council have above and below the line voting. Voting above the line requir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Ripon, Hampden, Grenville And Polwarth
The Electoral district of Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth was one of the original sixteen electoral districts of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856. Victoria being a colony in Australia at the time. The district's area was defined as consisting of the four central western Victorian counties of Ripon, Hampden, Grenville and Polwarth. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). Members One member initially, two from the enlarged Council of 1853.Sweetman, p.108 = resigned = by-election Campbell went on to represent Polwarth, Ripon, Hampden and South Grenville in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1856. See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Council The following are lists of members of the Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Belfast And Warrnambool
The Electoral district of Belfast and Warrnambool was one of the original sixteen electoral districts of the unicameral Legislative Council of the British colony of Victoria in 1851 to 1856. The district included the towns of Belfast (renamed to Port Fairy around 1889) and Warrnambool. It was abolished when the single house was replaced in 1856 by a bicameral system consisting of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house) and Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces). Members One member initially, two from the expansion of the Council in 1853.Sweetman, p.108 See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Council Notes = resigned = by-election Beaver went on to represent the Electoral district of Belfast in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1856. Horne went on to represent the Electoral district of Warrnambool The Electoral district of Warrnambool was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Osborne (Australian Journalist)
Thomas Hamilton Osborne (c.1806 – 28 May 1853) was a journalist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia). Osborne studied Natural Philosophy, Belfast Belfast ( , ; from ga, Béal Feirste , meaning 'mouth of the sand-bank ford') is the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland, standing on the banks of the River Lagan on the east coast. It is the 12th-largest city in the United Kingdo .... Mercer was elected to the district of Belfast and Warrnambool in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council in October 1851. Osborne resigned from the Council in December 1852. He was editor and proprietor of the ''Belfast Gazette''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Osborne, Thomas Hamilton 1806 births 1853 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Council Burials in Victoria (state) 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Murray (Victorian Legislative Council)
The Electoral district of Murray was one of the sixteen electoral districts of the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856. Murray was defined as: ''"Bounded on the south and west by the Counties of Evelyn and Anglesey and the River Goulburn to its junction with the Murray on the north and north-east by the River Murray and on the south-east by the dividing range (Alps)."'' A new district, Ovens, was created in 1855 which was contained within the original boundaries of Murray. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). Members of Murray One member originally, two from 1853 when the Council was expanded. = resigned Hervey went on to represent Eastern Province (November 1856 to July 1865) in the Victorian Legislative Council. Murphy went on to represent the Electoral district of Murray Boroug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Murphy (Australian Politician)
Sir Francis Murphy (1809 – 30 March 1891) was an Australian politician, first Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Life Murphy was the son of Francis D. Murphy, who was for upwards of thirty years head of the South of Ireland Transport of Convicts Department. Francis was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1809, and after being educated in his native city, entered at Trinity College, Dublin, as a medical student, ultimately being admitted M.R.C.S. of London. In June 1836 Dr. Murphy emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and was immediately nominated by the Governor Sir Richard Bourke to a position on the staff of colonial surgeons. On appointment he proceeded to take charge of a portion of the southern district in the county of Argyle, but soon afterwards being led into agricultural pursuits, he resigned his official position, and finally discontinued practice as a medical man. After leaving the Government service, Dr. Murphy purchased a considerable quantity of land at Argy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of South Bourke, Evelyn And Mornington
''For the lower house seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, see South Bourke 1856–1889, or Evelyn and Mornington 1856–1859.'' The Electoral district of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington was one of the sixteen electoral districts of the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). Members of South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington One member originally, two from the expanded Council of 1853.Sweetman p.109 Miller went on to represent Central Province in the Legislative Council from November 1856. Dane later represented the Electoral district of Warrnambool in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 1864. Chapman later represented the Electoral district of St Kilda in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from January 1858 and Electoral distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Miller (Australian Politician)
Henry Miller (31 December 1809 – 7 February 1888) was an Australian banker and politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life Miller was born in Derry, Ireland, the son of Captain Henry Miller, of H.M.'s 40th Regiment of Foot, who served with distinction in the Peninsular War, and was at the battle of Waterloo, and his wife Jane, ''née'' Morpeth. In 1823 Miller senior proceeded with a detachment of his regiment in charge of a batch of convicts to Sydney, his family accompanying him. Early career Shortly afterwards Miller senior was appointed commandant at Moreton Bay, where he spent eighteen months, and was then transferred to Van Diemen's Land, where he died at Hobart in 1866. After the arrival of the family in what was afterwards Tasmania, Miller junior obtained an appointment as an accountant in the audit office at Hobart, and at the age of twenty-four married Eliza, second daughter of the late Captain Mattinson of the Merchant Service. In 1839 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Grant (Victorian Legislative Council)
The Electoral district of Grant was one of the sixteen electoral districts of the original unicameral Victorian Legislative Council (Australia) of 1851 to 1856. It was based on the County of Grant and was bound by the "''Werribee River from its mouth to its source in the great dividing range ... Yarrowee River on the west and south-west ... Barwon River ... Salt Creek to the sea coast north of Point Roadknight on the south by the sea coast ... to the mouth of the Werribee River ...''" (Excluding the town of Geelong). From 1856, the Parliament of Victoria consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). Members One member initially, two from the expansion of the Council in 1853.Sweetman, p.108 See also * Parliaments of the Australian states and territories * List of members of the Victorian Legislative Council Notes = resigned = by-election Haines, Myles and Wills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mercer (Australian Pastoralist)
John Henry Mercer (4 January 1823 – 8 December 1891) was a landowner, pastoralist and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia). Mercer born in Midlothian, Scotland, the son of George Dempster Mercer and Frances Charlotte Reid. Mercer was a pastoralist with his brother George Duncan Mercer and cousin William Drummond Mercer in properties near Geelong. Mercer was elected to the district of Grant Grant or Grants may refer to: Places *Grant County (other) Australia * Grant, Queensland, a locality in the Barcaldine Region, Queensland, Australia United Kingdom *Castle Grant United States * Grant, Alabama *Grant, Inyo County, C ... in the inaugural Victorian Legislative Council on 16 September 1851. Mercer left the Council in December 1852, he became commissioner of insolvent estates and chairman of the water commission. In 1857 Mercer had the Gheringhap freehold mapped as the Dryden estate. Mercer later returned to Scotland where he married Anne Cather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lonsdale (colonist)
William Lonsdale (2 or 21 October 1799 – 28 March 1864) supervised the founding of the official settlement at Port Phillip (later named Melbourne) from 1836 and went on to serve under the Superintendent La Trobe from 1839 to 1854. Early life Lonsdale was born in Den Helder, Batavian Republic, during Britain's failed campaign to restore the deposed Prince William of Orange. His father, Lieutenant James Lonsdale, had been accompanied by his wife Jane (''née'' Faunce). William at age 20 joined his father's old regiment, the King's Own (4th) Regiment of the Foot, as an ensign on 8 July 1819. He was soon joined by his younger brother, . William and served with their Regiment in the West Indies and on 4 March 1824 William was promoted Lieutenant and appointed Adjutant. He returned to England and was posted to Portugal. By 1830 he was back in England and by 20 March 1831 his Regiment was posted to the Colony of New South Wales to relieve the 39th Regiment. He was to become a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of City Of Melbourne
The Electoral district of City of Melbourne was one of the original sixteen electoral districts of the old unicameral Victorian Legislative Council of 1851 to 1856; Victoria having been made a separate colony in Australia in the former year. The Electoral district of City of Melbourne's area contained the North Melbourne and part of Jika Jika parishes, and was bound in part by Merri Creek, Moonee Ponds and Hobson's Bay. William Westgarth had been a representative in the New South Wales Legislative Council for the City of Melbourne, and topped the poll for this new district in Victoria. From 1856 onwards, the Victorian parliament consisted of two houses, the Victorian Legislative Council (upper house, consisting of Provinces) and the Victorian Legislative Assembly (lower house). Members Three members initially, the election results were declared on 13 September 1851, members sworn-in November 1851. Six members from the expansion of the Council in 1853.Sweetman, p.108 See ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
