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Members Of The Queensland Legislative Council, 1860–1869
This is a list of members of the Queensland Legislative Council from its creation on 1 May 1860 to 31 December 1869. Appointments, made by the Governor of Queensland, were for life, although many members for one reason or another resigned. Prior to 1860, Queensland was part of the colony of New South Wales. Starting with 11 members, by 26 April 1861, the council had increased to 21 members. From then until the end of the decade, the mean membership was slightly over 20, ranging from 16–17 for a period from July 1865 to February 1866, to 23–24 for a period from July 1863 to April 1864. Office bearers President of the Legislative Council: * Charles Nicholson (22 May 1860 – 26 August 1860) * Maurice Charles O'Connell (26 August 1860 – 23 March 1879) Chairman of Committees: * Daniel Foley Roberts Daniel Foley Roberts M.L.C. (19 February 1824 – 26 July 1889), was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Roberts was born in Sydney, New South Wales where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queensland Legislative Council
The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which first took office on 1 May 1860. It was abolished by the Constitution Amendment Act 1921, which took effect on 23 March 1922. Consequently, the Legislative Assembly of Queensland is the only unicameral state Parliament in Australia. Two territories, the Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory, also maintain unicameral parliaments. Most of the early members of the Council came from wealthy families, were well educated and were born in England. Absenteeism was a problem in the early years, with some members returning to England, being absent for several years. Abolition The Legislative Council was seen by the Labor Party as undemocratic and a tool of patronage, and upon the establishment of a secure Labor majority in the Assembly in 1915, Labor sought the house's abolition. Bills for this purpose were rejected by the Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Galloway (Australian Politician)
John James Galloway (18 February 1818 – 30 June 1883) was an early surveyor of Australia and New Zealand and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life John James Galloway was born on in Leith, Scotland. In 1837, at the age of 19, Galloway traveled with his father Thomas Galloway (who was serving as the ship's surgeon) to Australia. Career Galloway secured an appointment as an assistant surveyor in Australia. He was then briefly assistant surveyor to New Zealand in 1840. Beginning in 1842 he acted as Commissioner for Crown Lands within the Boundaries. He became a licensed surveyor in 1844, which enabled him to in 1847 secure appointment as a full surveyor. Galloway served two terms in the Queensland Legislative Council. His first term was from 1 May 1860 until 1 May 1865 and the second was from 13 November 1869 until 17 April 1872. He purchased some urban property, including around the area that now bears his name, Galloway's Hill. Later life Gallow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert George Massie
Robert George Massie (1815 – 13 September 1883) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Career Massie was a Commissioner of Crown Lands for the MacLeay River District in New South Wales from 4 July 1842 to 1 March 1848. Massie was appointed as Commissioner of Crown Lands for New England on 22 April 1848 and then he additionally acquired responsibility for MacLeay River on 25 January 1854. Massie ceased in the role on 7 December 1854. He then moved to the Darling Downs in Queensland where he operated a pastoral station called Toolburra. From 1 May 1855 to 31 July 1855, he served as an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Council for the Pastoral districts of New England and MacLeay. However, his election was declared void. Massie was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on 1 May 1860 and served until his resignation on 14 May 1862. He died on 13 September 1883 at Hunters Hill, New South Wales. Legacy The Massie railway station and l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Frederick McDougall
John Frederick McDougall (1820—1896) was a pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life John Frederick McDougall was born on 31 August 1820 in Parramatta, New South Wales, the son of John Kerr McDougall and his wife Louisa (née Doyle). He attended The King's School, Parramatta. On 31 July 1846 at St John's Church, Parramatta, McDougall married Catherine Maria D'Arcy, the daughter of Major D'Arcy of the 28th Regiment. The couple had 8 sons and 2 daughters. McDougall arrived in Moreton Bay, Queensland accompanied by Mrs D'Arcy on the steamer ''Shamrock'' on 28 October 1855. McDougall was one of the early pioneers on the Darling Downs where he was the long-time owner of Rosalie pastoral station. He was also associated with a number of other pastoral stations including Texas, Rosalie Plains and Cooyar. McDougall was one of the original purchasers of the (now) St Johns Wood estate in Brisbane, which McDo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McConnel
John McConnel (3 October 1806 – 27 January 1899) was pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Pastoralist On 1 January 1851 McConnell joined in partnership with his brother David and they purchased Durundur Station, previously belonging to the Archer brothers, who moved to the Burnett region. In 1851 the McConnels owned 400 cattle and 10,000 sheep on their Brisbane River Valley properties. Politics McConnel was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which first took office on 1 May 1860. It was abolished by the Constitution Amendment Act 1921, which to ... on 24 April 1861 and served until his resignation on 16 July 1868. Later life He died in 1899 and was buried in Bald Hills Cemetery. References Members of the Queensland Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Landsborough
William Landsborough (21 February 1825 – 16 March 1886) was an explorer of Australia and notably he was the first explorer to complete a North-to-South crossing of Australia. He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life Landsborough was born in Stevenston, Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Rev Dr David Landsborough (a clergyman, entomologist and artist) and his wife Margaret, ''née'' McLeish. William Landsborough was educated in Irvine and migrated to Australia in 1842, several years after his brothers James and John. Early life in Australia William Landsborough arrived in Sydney on the ''Duke of Richmond'', on 30 September 1842. He joined his brothers James and John on their property in the New England district of New South Wales and stayed with them until 1850 when he went into partnership with a friend, William Penson, buying 30,000 acres nearby which they named Oak Ridge. When gold was discovered in Bathurst, New South Wales in 1851, he went t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Laidley
James Turquand Laidley (1823 – 29 March 1877) was a pastoralist and Member of the Queensland Legislative Council in the colony of Queensland (later a state of Australia). Early life James Turquand Laidley was born in 1823 in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of James Laidley and Eliza Jane (née Shepheard). Pastoralism Laidley acquired Western Creek Station on the Darling Downs in 1848. From 1849 to 1879 he was in partnership with his brother-in-law Henry Mort (married to Laidley's sister Maria) in a pastoral property called Franklyn Vale at Mount Mort, Queensland. Politics Laidley was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on the 1 May 1860 and served until his resignation on the 16 August 1864. Later life Laidley died on 29 March 1877 at his home at Ocean Street, Woollahra Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business distric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Isaac
Frederick Neville Isaac (1825 – 12 July 1865) was a Queensland pioneer pastoralist and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Queensland pioneer Frederick Isaac arrived in Queensland in 1840. Together with his brother, he accompanied the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt on his first expedition, on which Isaac proved himself an excellent bushman. After that expedition, Frederick Isaac then returned to Gowrie, and went from there with stock to take up land. In 1847, Isaac and his men settled at a place called Dullacca (later the property of William Miles, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly), but he was very soon driven from that land by the aborigines. He managed to save some of his stock but was forced to leave behind all his stores and his dray. In 1852 he entered a partnership with his brother as owners of Gowrie Station. In 1854, he returned to England, where he married Caroline Sparkes, of St Johns, Bridgenorth, in Shropshire. On returning to Queensland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Hope
Louis Hope (19 October 1817 – 15 August 1894) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early years Hope was born in Linlithgow, Scotland in 1817 to General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, and his wife Louisa Dorothea (née Wedderburn). After finishing his education he joined the Coldstream Guards, rising to the rank of Captain. In 1843 he arrived in New South Wales. Hope moved to Moreton Bay in 1848 and purchased land at Ormiston in 1853 where he established his Ormiston House Estate. In 1854 he purchased land which eventually equaled 364 housing lots at Norman Park. That same year, along with Robert Ramsay, he took up Kilcoy Station, eventually becoming its sole owner in 1863. Hope was also involved in Sugar mills, opening a mill at Ormiston. Politics Hope was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on 24 April 1862. He served for twenty years until he resigned on 1 November 1882 to return to Scotland. Personal life Hope married Susan Frances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Hobbs (politician)
Dr William Hobbs (1822 – 8 December 1890) was a doctor and politician in colonial Queensland. Hobbs was born in London, England, and was one of the earliest colonists of Queensland, practised as a doctor in Brisbane, and was for a considerable period the Government medical officer. Accompanied by his aged mother, he arrived at Moreton Bay on 1 May 1849 as surgeon of the '' Chaseley'', the second of John Dunmore Lang's migrant ships. After a brief period at Drayton on the Darling Downs, he commenced practice in Brisbane in September. He was nominated to the Queensland Legislative Council and was a member of the first responsible government, without portfolio, under the premiership of Robert Herbert, the permanent Under-Secretary for the Colonies, from April 1861 to January 1862. Mr. Hobbs married Anna Louisa Barton, sister of Edmund Barton, of Sydney. He died in Brisbane on 8 December 1890 and was buried in Toowong Cemetery Toowong Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Heussler
Johann Christian (John) Heussler (1820–1907) was a businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life Johann Christian Heussler was born at Bockenheim, Frankfurt, Germany on 15 June 1820. He was educated at the state school, and was subsequently a student at a French institution at Bockenheim, and Dr. Jeiteles's Mercantile Institute at Frankfurt. He entered in business as a wine merchant at Frankfurt, and later on, while still young, received an important appointment in a mercantile firm in Holland, representing the firm at the London Exhibition in 1851. He emigrated to Australia in 1852, and established a business, in partnership with others, in Melbourne. Business interests Due to poor health he moved to Brisbane 1854 and established the mercantile firm Heussler and Co. Over two decades Heussler became a highly respected business man and citizen of Queensland. He was recognised as a founding member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Harris (Queensland Politician)
George Harris (1831–1891) was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Early life George Harris was born in 1831 in London, England, the son of John Harris and his wife Sarah (née Walton). His family immigrated to Australia when he was two years old. George Harris and his brother John Harris arrived in Brisbane in about 1848. They opened a store in South Brisbane and a warehouse and wharf at Short Street (at the southern end of Alice Street, where Gardens Point Road is today). They traded under the name ''Messrs. J. and G. Harris, merchants''. The partnership was dissolved some years later, after which George Harris then embarked in business as a merchant on his own account under the name ''Messrs. George Harris and Co'', a business he continued to operate until his death. On 13 October 1860, he married Jane Thorn, the daughter of George Thorn (senior) of the Normanby pastoral station and a Member of the Queensland Legi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
