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Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1857–1860
This is a list of members of the first parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was creat ..., which sat from 22 April 1857 until 1 March 1860. The members were elected at the inaugural 1857 election. ;Notes ReferencesStatistical Record of the Legislature 1836-2007 Parliament of SA, www.parliament.sa.gov.au {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the South Australian House of Assembly, 1857-1860 Members of South Australian parliaments by term 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. In 1895, the House of Assembly granted women the right to vote and stand for election to the legislature. South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt.) From 1857 to 1933, the House of Assembly was elected from multi-member dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Maturin
William Henry Maturin, (1814 – 5 March 1889) was a senior public servant in the early days of the colony of South Australia and had a further career in Great Britain. He and his brother Augustus arrived in Adelaide on the brig ''Elizabeth Buckham'' on 22 June 1843, and took the place of W. C. Darling in the Commissariat Department under administrator Sir Henry E. Fox Young, acting as his private secretary and holding the position of Deputy Assistant Commissary General and Auditor General, was promoted to Assistant Director in 1847, then Private Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor in May 1849, and at the same time appointed to the Legislative Council, but almost immediately relinquishing both when he was made acting Colonial Treasurer, reverting to Private Secretary in 1851. In 1850 his assistant William Edward Beddome was convicted of embezzling £4,000, which could only have happened because of lax security on Maturin's part. In 1857 the Commissariat Department was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Owen (Australian Politician)
William Owen (c. 1815 – 16 Oct 1869) was a businessman and politician in the young Colony of South Australia. He was a founder of the South Australian Total Abstinence Society. History William Owen and his wife Christina (née Cock) emigrated to South Australia from London in 1838 on the ''Rajasthan'' arriving on 16 November 1838. Sometimes referred to as "Captain Owen", he was in business as a produce merchant in Rosina Street then, from 1847, Pirie Street, Adelaide, Pirie Street Adelaide. He spent a year in the Swan River Colony, at least partly in the hope that a "change of air" would be beneficial to his wife, who was suffering from tuberculosis. During this time he built up business contacts and exported goods and timber to his Adelaide store, which was being managed by J. J. Warner. In conjunction with A. L. Elder, he chartered the 94 ton brigantine ''Emma Sherratt'' for a sugar buying expedition, a consequence of which was a libel suit by Owen against competitor William Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henville Burford
William Henville Burford (24 January 1807 – 23 October 1895) was an apprenticed butcher with some experience as a tallow merchant and chandler in Cannon Street, St George's East, in the East End of London. In 1838 he emigrated to South Australia for his health's sake with his wife and three daughters on the ''Pestonjee Bomanjee'', arriving at Glenelg on 11 October. Initially he found work as a painter and glazier, and soon had one of the larger businesses in the Colony. In 1840, when a recession had made those trades unprofitable, he was able to start a soap and candle factory, W. H. Burford & Sons, in 134 (154?) Grenfell Street. The business failed several times, but revived with the opening of the Burra copper mine in 1848, then the Moonta and Wallaroo mines around 1863. Burford was an alderman of the Adelaide Town Council for 1840 and 1841. During his second term he earned the nickname of "ninepenny dips" for his proposal to more than double the council rates to that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Collinson
Edward Gascoigne Collinson (1801 – April 1861) was a businessman and politician in the early days of the colonies of Western Australia and South Australia. History He arrived in Swan River Colony (now Western Australia) in 1829 and was for some time a government employee. He moved to South Australia around 1847 and set up in business as a shipping agent, taking over the lease of Queen's Wharf, Port Adelaide to which he added the bonded warehouse in 1848. In 1851 Collinson and Younghusband built a wharf at the top end of the Port River opposite Fletcher's Slip, officially named "Princes Wharf" but was generally known as "Collinson's Wharf" until around 1861. He was member of the South Australian House of Assembly for the seat of Port Adelaide from 11 October 1858 to 12 March 1860. He was appointed Justice of the Peace A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower or ''puisne'' court, elected or appointed by means of a commission ( letters patent) to keep t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Bristow Hughes
J. B. Hughes (John Bristow Hughes; July 1817 – 25 March 1881) was a grazier, developer and politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. Life Born in Kentish Town, London, in July. 1817, he was employed at the age of 13 in the office of a merchant who sent him to Calcutta where his health was badly affected. John and his brother Herbert Bristow Hughes came to South Australia in 1840 by way of Tasmania. By August 1841 he was running a sheep-station on the River Gilbert with between 3,000 and 5,000 sheep. He expanded northwards, then sold his run at a substantial profit. His next venture was into real estate, with housing in Woodville; successful enough to donate land for the Anglican Church. Perhaps he also made a substantial contribution to the building. He was heavily involved around 1849 in the foundation of St. Peter's College, a cause that was close to his heart the rest of his life - the "Letters" page of the ''South Australian Register'' frequen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward McEllister
Edward McEllister (c. 1809 – 12 May 1866) was a politician in the early days of the Colony of South Australia. History McEllister emigrated from Ireland, perhaps Tipperary arriving in December 1839 aboard ''Delhi'' and served as a mounted policeman stationed for a time at Port Lincoln Port Lincoln is a town on the Lower Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. It is situated on the shore of Boston Bay, which opens eastward into Spencer Gulf. It is the largest city in the West Coast region, and is located a ..., then some time before 1845 took up business in Rundle Street, Adelaide, which proved lucrative, and he retired in 1850. McEllister was a member of the Legislative Assembly for the district of Yatala from March 1860 to November 1862. He failed to be re-elected due to his support for compulsory Bible studies in State schools. He served in the Legislative Council from 1865 until his death the following year. He was survived by a widow, two sons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Marks
Morris Lyon Marks (7 September 1824 – 4 March 1893) was a Jewish businessman remembered as a politician in the colony of South Australia. He was frequently referred to by his full name or as "Morris L. Marks" to distinguish him from several contemporaries named Morris Marks. History A son of Lyon Marks ( – ) and Mrs. Marks (c. 1783 – 5 February 1857), he and his brother Solomon Lyon Marks migrated from London to South Australia on the ''Abberton'', arriving in December 1846, and was a successful importer and merchant in Adelaide and Burra. He and his brother were, as M & S Marks, owners of the "Liverpool Mart" in Hindley Street, Adelaide's largest emporium. He was, in 1848, a member of the consortium (with Burnet Nathan, Louis Hart, Joseph Hart, and Samuel Hart) which purchased from George Morphett land on Rundle Street for the first Synagogue (consecrated 3 September 1850). He married in 1850 and later had a large family. He was a passenger on the steamer '' Osmanli'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judah Solomon
Judah Moss Solomon (21 December 1818 – 29 August 1880)Richards, Eric'Solomon, Judah Moss (1818 - 1880)' Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 6, Melbourne University Press, 1976, pp 163-164. was a successful businessman, Mayor of Adelaide and member of both houses of South Australian Parliament. History Solomon was born in London, a son of Moss Solomon (c. 1769–1842) and his first wife Elizabeth Solomon, née Myers, (c. 1797–c. 1830). He emigrated to Sydney around 1831 and was educated at Sydney College, which later became the University of Sydney, then for several years was employed by his uncles as supercargo on their vessels, which traded around Australia and nearby islands, and in that capacity first visited Adelaide on 20 October 1839, in the barque ''Strath Isla'' with a cargo of Timor Ponies. He worked for his uncle Israel Solomon (1818–1901), then in 1842 moved to Moreton Bay (now Brisbane, Queensland), where he was appointed Government Auctioneer, and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Richard Torrens
Sir Robert Richard Torrens, (31 May 1812Croucher, Rosalind F. (2008) 'Delenda Est Carthago!' Sir Robert Richard Torrens and his attack on the evils of conveyancing and dependent land titles: a reflection on the sesquicentenary of the introduction of his great law reforming initiative' Alex Castles Memorial Legal History Lecture for Flinders University Law School, Adelaide, 26 August 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2020. – 31 August 1884), also known as Robert Richard Chute Torrens, was an Irish-born parliamentarian, writer, and land reformer. After a move to London in 1836, he became prominent in the early years of the Colony of South Australia, emigrating after being appointed to a civil service position there in 1840. He was Colonial Treasurer and Registrar-General from 1852 to 1857 and then the third Premier of South Australia for a single month in September 1857. Torrens is chiefly remembered as the originator of the Torrens title, a new system of land registration that subsequ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Shannon (politician)
David Shannon (c. 1822 – 9 September 1875) served one term as a member of the South Australian House of Assembly for the Electoral district of Light from 9 September 1858 to 18 March 1860. Shannon arrived in South Australia around 1842, following his brother Abraham Shannon. They farmed together until around 1856, when David took up "Yatara", near Stockwell (Stockport in some refs), where he died a few years after a fall from his horse and a subsequent infection which ended with a leg amputation. Family David, his brother Abraham and four half-brothers migrated to South Australia around 1840–1850, though details are hard to find. Many are interred in the Shannon mausoleum, Truro. *Abraham Shannon (18 February 1820 – 21 July 1875), who came out in either 1838, Neither of the two arrival dates is corroborated by passenger lists. 1839, or on ''John Pirie'' in 1843; farmed at Mount Gould, east of Kersbrook Kersbrook (formerly Maidstone) is a town near Adelaide, South Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rogers (Australian Politician)
William Rogers (22 July 1818 – 26 August 1903) was a politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. History William Rogers, a builder and stonemason, emigrated from Cornwall to South Australia on the ''Platina'', arriving in July 1839. He settled in the Sandergrove district, and was responsible for a large number of constructions in the area, including John Dunn's flour mill at Mount Barker. His brother Joseph also emigrated, joining him in 1847. He acquired some property and began breeding sheep. When William Bowman left the Finniss district around 1878, Rogers purchased his property "View Bank" and later had a share in Portee station on the River Murray near Blanchetown and another at Swan Reach. He made his elder son manager (later owner) of Finniss, and gave Portee and Swan Reach stations to younger son Edwin. They sustained heavy losses in the 1890s drought, but survived and had largely recovered financially at the time of his death. He was a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
