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Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1871–1875
This is a list of members of the seventh parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 19 January 1872 until 14 January 1875. The members were elected at the 1871 colonial election. Notes : The Sturt MHA John Henry Barrow died on 22 August 1874. William Mair won the resulting by-election on 7 September. : Thomas Reynolds and William Everard were initially declared elected as the two members for Encounter Bay, but their election was challenged and they were unseated on 2 February 1872. A by-election was held on 29 February, which saw Reynolds re-elected and Everard defeated by William Rogers. : The member for Mount Barker, William West, changed his name to William West-Erskine in June 1872. : The Burra MHA John Hart died on 28 January 1873. Rowland Rees won the resulting by-election on 3 April. : Victoria MHA John Riddoch resigned on 28 April 1873. Park Laurie won the resulting by-election on 29 May. : Victoria MHA Edwin Derrington resigned by 6 May 1 ... [...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 Henry Bundey
Sir William Henry Bundey (30 January 1838 – 6 December 1909) was an Australian politician and judge, Attorney-General of South Australia from 27 September 1878 to 10 March 1881. __NOTOC__ Early life Bundey was born in Exbury, Hampshire, England, the second son of James Bundey and his wife Harriett ''née'' Lockyer. The family emigrated to South Australia in 1848 after losing money in England. William's father died about a few weeks after his arrival, and the boy, though only 10 years of age, went to work in a solicitor's office. In 1856 he was appointed clerk of the City of Onkaparinga local court, but gave this position up about six years later to become articled to a solicitor. Bundey was practically self-educated but he was a good law student, and he was admitted to the bar in 1865. He became a most effective advocate, especially in criminal cases; he declined to defend prisoners unless he believed in their innocence. In 1878 he was appointed a Queen's Counsel. Political ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Everard (South Australian Politician)
William Edward Everard (December 1819 – 25 August 1889) was a South Australian businessman and politician. Everard was the son of Dr. Charles George Everard (1794–1876) and his wife Catherine (1786–1866), originally of London. The family, which included his mother and brothers Charles John Everard (ca.1822 – 22 July 1892) and James George (died 3 May 1840, aged 15), arrived in Adelaide on the ship under Captain John Finlay Duff in 1836. His father was one of the first eighteen elected to South Australia's unicameral Legislative Council in 1839. By 1843 William and his brother Charles were farming a jointly-owned property in Myponga, while Dr. C. G. Everard was developing his properties "Ashford" and "Marshfield", to the west and east of the Bay Road respectively, and comprising much of the land between Keswick and Glenelg. Dr. Everard was the first colonist to grow wheat, on one of his City selections on Morphett Street. Business *For twenty years he was a Direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Port Adelaide
Port Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly. Named after Port Adelaide, which it surrounds, it is a 118.8 km² suburban and industrial electorate on Adelaide's Lefevre Peninsula, and stretches east toward Adelaide's northern suburbs. It contains a mix of seaside residential areas, wasteland and industrial regions. In addition to its namesake suburb of Port Adelaide, the district includes the suburbs of Birkenhead, Bolivar, Cavan, Dry Creek, Ethelton, Exeter, Garden Island, Gepps Cross, Gillman, Glanville, Globe Derby Park, Largs Bay, Largs North, New Port, North Haven, Osborne, Ottoway, Outer Harbor, Peterhead, Semaphore, Semaphore South, St Kilda, Taperoo, Torrens Island, Wingfield, as well as part of Rosewater. Port Adelaide has had three incarnations as a South Australian electoral district. Port Adelaide was the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Duncan (Australian Politician)
Sir John James Duncan (12 February 1845 – 8 October 1913) was a politician in the colony and State of South Australia. History Duncan was born the elder son of (sea) Captain J. Duncan (died 24 April 1880) in Anstruther, Fifeshire, Scotland, and came out to South Australia with his parents in 1854; his father was a partner with his brother-in-law Sir Walter W. Hughes, who was running sheep and cattle at Hoyle's Plains and on Yorke Peninsula in the vicinity of Wallaroo and Moonta. He was first educated privately, then at Bentley (near Gawler), Stanley Grammar School at Watervale, then at St. Peter's College. On leaving school he found employment as a clerk for Elder, Smith, & Co., then was put in charge of the finance department of the smelting works, and then the mines at Wallaroo. He then took charge of several pastoral properties of his uncle, on whose death he inherited the Gum Creek (near Burra) and Hughes Park estates. The latter property had an ideal country ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edwin Derrington
Edwin Henry Derrington (1 July 1830 – 14 October 1899) was a journalist and politician in colonial South Australia. Derrington was born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, the first son and fourth child of Edwin Derrington, a Dissenting minister, and his wife Susannah, ''née'' Buggins. He was the member for Victoria in the South Australian House of Assembly from December 1871 to May 1873, and served as Commissioner of Crown Lands in the Henry Ayers Ministry from 22 January to 4 March 1872. He was forced to resign his seat after a series of financial problems. He unsuccessfully contested the seat of Gumeracha in 1887. For many years, Derrington was connected with journalism in Victoria and South Australia; he was owner-editor of the ''Mount Gambier Standard'' from around 1869 to 1872. He then moved to Moonta, where he founded and ran the ''Yorke's Peninsula Advertiser and Miners' News'' for eleven years. He acquired the ''Port Adelaide News'' in 1878 and was its owner-edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cottrell
Robert Cottrell (15 September 1815 – 3 November 1880) was a coachbuilder and politician in the colony of South Australia. His first sojourn in Australia was in Maitland, New South Wales and his last near Maitland, South Australia. History Cottrell emigrated to New South Wales, arriving in Sydney on the ship ''Orient'' in February 1839. He ran a coachbuilding business in Maitland, New South Wales from 1843 to 1845. Cottrell married Abina Ledsam; their two elder sons were born in Maitland, where various members of the Ledsam family had settled from the early 1830s including poundkeeper John Ledsam and auctioneer Jeremiah Ledsam, with whom he was closely associated. Cottrell, his wife and four children moved to Adelaide by the brig ''Phantom'', accompanied by brother-in-law John Ledsam (1785–1856), in June 1847. In 1848 he opened a coachbuilding business in Rundle Street, which prospered, enabling him to move several times, finally to Grenfell Street. He was member for East ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Albert (South Australia)
Albert was an electoral district of the House of Assembly in South Australia, spanning its time as both a colony and a state. It was created in 1875, taking much territory from adjacent Victoria, merged with Victoria in 1902 as Victoria and Albert, separated again in 1915, and abolished in 1970. In 1875, Albert had booths at Bordertown, Kingston, Meningie, Naracoorte, Robe and Wellington East. It added booths at Lucindale (1878), Mannum East (1884), Wolseley (1885) and Mundulla (1887). It lost the Mannum East booth in 1890, but added further booths at Frances, Glenroy and Keith in 1893, at which time the Naracoorte booth was also renamed Kincraig. In 1896, Albert also added booths at Conmurra, Holder, Kingston on Murray, Lyrup, Murtho, Point McLeay, Pyap and Waikerie, but lost Glenroy. It regained a Glenroy booth and added Cookes Plains in 1899. It was then merged with Victoria as Victoria and Albert from the 1902 state election. The recreated Albert seat i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Light
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountifort Conner
Mountifort Longfield Conner (18 September 1824 – c. 12 November 1880), occasionally referred to as M. Longfield Conner, was an auctioneer, commission agent and politician in the British colony of South Australia. He was well known as a sporting gentleman in South Australia and sporting journalist in Victoria and New South Wales. History He was the youngest son of Daniel Conner (1798–1880) and his wife Elizabeth, née Longfield (daughter of Rev. Mountifort Longfield), of Ballineen, County Cork, Ireland. He came to public notice when he offered a directorship on the South Eastern Railway Company to John Riddoch MHA, which Riddoch properly rejected. He was involved as a judge and administrator in various forms of equestrian sport: hunting, steeplechasing and flat racing. He was a founder of the oldest coursing club in Australia, hunting wallaby, wallabies in Naracoorte, South Australia, Naracoorte, where he lived until around 1871. He was a candidate for the South Australian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Yatala
Yatala is a former electorate of the South Australian House of Assembly located within the cadastral Hundred of Yatala. It was one of the original Assembly districts in 1857, abolished in 1902. Yatala was also the name of an electoral district of the unicameral South Australian Legislative Council The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the House of Assembly. It sits in Parli ... from 1851 until its abolition in 1857, William Giles, then Arthur Blyth being the members. Rural at the time, most parts of the district would now be considered metropolitan. Members References {{DEFAULTSORT:Yatala Electoral districts of South Australia 1857 establishments in Australia 1902 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wentworth Cavenagh
Wentworth Cavenagh also known as Wentworth Cavenagh–Mainwaring, (1821 – 5 January 1895) was a politician in colonial South Australia. Cavenagh was member for Yatala in the South Australian House of Assembly from 17 November 1862 to 24 April 1881; and was Commissioner of Crown Lands, under Henry Strangways, from 3 November 1868 to 30 May 1870, and Commissioner of Public Works in the Henry Ayers Sir Henry Ayers (now pron. "airs") (1 May 1821 – 11 June 1897) was the eighth Premier of South Australia, serving a record five times between 1863 and 1873. His lasting memorial is in the name Ayers Rock, also known as Uluru, which was en ... Government from 4 March 1872 to 22 July 1873. In 1887 he received permission to bear the title of Honourable. Having married Ellen, daughter of Gordon Mainwaring, who, on the death of her brother in 1891, became entitled to the Whitmore Hall estate, in Staffordshire, he assumed the additional name of Mainwaring.Name change from Cavenag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
