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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1883–1886
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 23 February 1883 to the elections of 5 March 1886. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time. Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate. : Bolton resigned in April 1884; replaced by George Graham, sworn-in June 1884. : Bowman resigned in December 1885; replaced by Alfred Richard Outtrim the same month. : Francis died 25 January 1884; replaced by John Murray, sworn-in June 1884. : McColl died 2 April 1885; replaced by John Moore Highett, sworn-in July 1885. : MacGregor died 18 September 1883; replaced by David Gaunson, sworn-in October 1883. : Orkney resigned October 1885; replaced by Godfrey Carter Godfrey Downes Carter (1830 – 29 April 1902) was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885. Born in Jamaica the son of a slaveholder, Carter was educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Victoria
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 and the 2018 state elections.Report on the 2012-13 redivision of e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bowman (Australian Politician)
Robert Bowman (also Rob, Bob, or Bobby) may refer to: Sports *Bob Bowman (coach) (born 1965), American swimming coach *Rob Bowman (footballer) (born 1975), English football player *Robert A. Bowman, President and CEO of MLB Advanced Media *Bob Bowman (pitcher) (1910–1972), American baseball pitcher *Bob Bowman (outfielder) (1930–2017), American baseball outfielder Music and entertainment *Rob Bowman (director) (born 1960), American film and TV director *Rob Bowman (music writer) (born 1957), Canadian music writer and professor of ethnomusicology * BooG!E (born Bobby Bowman), actor known for playing T-Bo in the American teen sitcom ''iCarly'' Other uses *Robert M. Bowman (1934–2013), former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the U.S. Air Force and U.S. presidential candidate *Robert M. Bowman Jr. (born 1957), American Christian theologian *Robert Bowman (journalist) ( 1940s), Canadian radio reporter *Robert Benson Bowman Robert Benson Bowman (Richmond, Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Selth Coppin
George Selth Coppin (8 April 1819 – 14 March 1906) was a comic actor, a theatrical entrepreneur, a politician and a philanthropist, active in Australia.Sally O'Neill,Coppin, George Selth (1819–1906), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 3, Melbourne University Press, 1969, pp 459–462. Retrieved 13 April 2010 Early life Coppin was born at Steyning, Sussex, England, son of George Selth Coppin (1794–1854), a Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. Norwich is by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. As the seat of the See of Norwich, with ... surgeon, and Elizabeth Jane, ''née'' Jackson. His grandfather had been a well-known clergyman at Norwich. George Selth Coppin Senior studied for the medical profession, but abandoned this to join a group of travelling actors. George Coppin Junior (he rarely used his middle name, Selth) became an assi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Creswick
Creswick was an Electoral districts of Victoria, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the colony, and later Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria centred on the town of Creswick, Victoria, Creswick from 1859 to 1904. It was defined in the 1858 Electoral Act, its area being bound by Greens Gully, Loddon River, Great Dividing Range, Coliban River, Middleton Creek (Victoria), Middleton Creek, and Limestone Creek. Members for Creswick Two members initially, three members from 1877, then one from 1889 in the electoral redistribution where 41 new seats were created. :Wheeler went on to represent Electoral district of Daylesford, Daylesford April 1889 to October 1900. :Anderson went on to represent Electoral district of Windermere, Windermere May 1894 to May 1898. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Creswick Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1859 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Cooper (Australian Politician)
Thomas, Tom, or Tommy Cooper may refer to: Arts and entertainment *Thomas Apthorpe Cooper (1776–1849), English actor * Thomas Sidney Cooper (1803–1902), English painter *Thomas Cooper (poet) (1805–1892), English poet and Chartist * Thomas Cooper de Leon (1839–1914), American journalist, author and playwright *Tommy Cooper (1921–1984), British magician and comedian *Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946), American landscape photographer Military * Thomas Cooper (pilot) (1833–1906), American maritime pilot *Thomas Haller Cooper (1919–1987), member of the British Free Corps and convicted traitor *Thomas E. Cooper (born 1943), U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition), 1983–87 Politics * Thomas Cooper (Parliamentarian) (died 1659), colonel in the Parliamentary Army and politician *Thomas Cooper (American politician, born 1759) (1759–1840), American educationalist and political philosopher, commonly associated with South Carolina *Thomas Cooper (American politi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Connor (politician)
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Electoral District Of Footscray
The electoral district of Footscray is an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It lies just north of Melbourne, covering the suburbs of Footscray, Maidstone, Maribyrnong, Seddon, West Footscray, and parts of Yarraville Yarraville is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Maribyrnong local government area. Yarraville recorded a population of 15,636 at the . Yarraville i .... The seat was first created by ''The Electoral Act Amendment Act 1876'' taking effect at the 1877 elections. It was abolished in 1904 and recreated in 1927. In its current incarnation it has been held by the Labor Party for its entire existence. It has usually been a comfortably safe Labor seat, as it lies in Labor's traditional heartland of western and northern Melbourne. Members for Footscray Election results Graphical summary External links Electorate profile: Footscray Dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Clark (Australian Politician)
William McGregor Clark (April 1844 - 29 January 1900) was an Australian politician and newspaper proprietor. He was a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1879 to 1894, representing the electorate of Footscray. He was a part-owner of the ''Williamstown Advertiser'' and co-founder of Footscray newspaper the ''The Independent ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publis ...''. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clark, William McGregor 1844 births 1900 deaths Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Williamstown
Williamstown is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It is a 33 km2 urban electorate in the inner south-western suburbs of Melbourne, encompassing the suburbs of Brooklyn, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown and Yarraville. The electorate had a population of 54,426 as of the 2006 census. Williamstown is one of only three electorates (along with Brighton and Richmond) to have been contested at every election since 1856. It is a very safe seat for the Labor Party, which has held it for all but two terms since 1889 and without interruption since 1904. Notable former members include John Lemmon, who held the seat for a Victorian record 51 years until his retirement in 1955, and former Premiers Joan Kirner and Steve Bracks. Steve Bracks held the seat from a by-election in 1994 until his surprise resignation on 30 July 2007. A by-election was held on 15 September 2007, resulting in the election of Labor's Wade Noonan Wade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Thomas Clark
Alfred may refer to: Arts and entertainment *'' Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series * ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne * ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák *"Alfred (Interlude)" and "Alfred (Outro)", songs by Eminem from the 2020 album ''Music to Be Murdered By'' Business and organisations * Alfred, a radio station in Shaftesbury, England *Alfred Music, an American music publisher * Alfred University, New York, U.S. *The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia People * Alfred (name) includes a list of people and fictional characters called Alfred * Alfred the Great (848/49 – 899), or Alfred I, a king of the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons Places Antarctica * Mount Alfred (Antarctica) Australia * Alfredtown, New South Wales * County of Alfred, South Australia Canada * Alfred and Plantagenet, Ontario * Alfred Island, Nunavut * Mount Alfred, British Columbia United States * Alfred, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Evelyn
The electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859. The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew. It now includes the suburbs and towns of Coldstream, Gruyere, Lilydale, and Wonga Park. The seat is usually safe for the Liberal Party but it was won by the Labor Party during their three landslide victories of 1952, 1982 and 2002. At the 2006 election Christine Fyffe Christine Ann Fyffe (born 10 December 1944) is an Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1999 to 2002 and again from 2006 to 2018, representing Evelyn. Personal life Fyffe was born in Staf ... regained the seat for the Liberals, defeating Heather McTaggart. Fyffe was re-elected to the district during at the 2010 and 2014 Victorian state elections. Members Election results Graphical summar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Hugh Cameron
Ewen Hugh Cameron (24 July 1831 – 27 September 1915) was a builder, store-keeper and politician in colonial Victoria (state of Victoria post 1901), member for Evelyn in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1914. Born in Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, Scotland, the son of Donald and Ann Cameron, Ewen Cameron arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and was engaged in the building industry with his brothers. He was a storekeeper at Anderson's Creek and Caledonia gold-diggings, a postmaster at Warrandyte Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 24 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Manningham local government area. Warrandyte recorded a population of 5,541 at the . Warrandyt ... in 1857 and farmed at Kangaroo Ground from 1860. Cameron was a member of the Castlemaine mining board and Eltham road board. He was the inaugural Eltham shire president in 1871 and president again later several times. Cameron was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
