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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1864β1866
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council from the elections of 2 September β 3 October 1864 to the elections of 31 August β 2 October 1866. There were six Electoral Provinces and five members elected to each Province. :Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province. : Hervey resigned in July 1863, replaced by William Haines in an August 1865 by-election. Haines died on 3 February 1866 and was replaced by Robert Stirling Hore Anderson in March 1866. References Re-member(a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851). Parliament of Victoria The Parliament of Victoria is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of Victoria that follows a Westminster-derived parliamentary system. It consists of the King, represented by the Governor of Victoria, the Legislative Assembly and .... {{DEFAULTSORT:Members of the Victorian Legislative Council, 1864-1866 Members of the Parliament of Vict ... [...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] |
Alexander Fraser (Victorian Politician)
Alexander Fraser (2 January 1802 β 20 August 1888) was a businessman and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Fraser was born in Aldourie, Inverness-shire, Scotland, eldest of the ten children of John Fraser, a farmer and Free Church elder, and his wife Ann, ''nΓ©e'' Fraser. In 1827 Fraser went to London and five years later sailed for Sydney, New South Wales, in the ''Rubicon''. The ship, however, put in at Hobart, Tasmania (then called Van Diemen's Land), and he decided to stay there, which he did till 1852, when he visited Victoria and decided to settle there. Fraser had been interested in pastoral properties in the colony as far back as 1836, and he now started as an auctioneer in Bendigo, removing the business to Melbourne in 1853. In October 1858 Fraser was elected to the Legislative Council for the North Western Province, and was Commissioner of Public Works in the Francis Ministry from 14 June 1872 to 4 May 1874 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Morgan Murphy
Henry may refer to: People *Henry (given name) *Henry (surname) * Henry Lau, Canadian singer and musician who performs under the mononym Henry Royalty * Portuguese royalty ** King-Cardinal Henry, King of Portugal ** Henry, Count of Portugal, Henry of Burgundy, Count of Portugal (father of Portugal's first king) ** Prince Henry the Navigator, Infante of Portugal ** Infante Henrique, Duke of Coimbra (born 1949), the sixth in line to Portuguese throne * King of Germany **Henry the Fowler (876β936), first king of Germany * King of Scots (in name, at least) ** Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545/6β1567), consort of Mary, queen of Scots ** Henry Benedict Stuart, the 'Cardinal Duke of York', brother of Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was hailed by Jacobites as Henry IX * Four kings of Castile: **Henry I of Castile **Henry II of Castile **Henry III of Castile **Henry IV of Castile * Five kings of France, spelt ''Henri'' in Modern French since the Renaissance to italianize the name and to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell
Sir William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (November 1811 β 24 November 1884) was an Australian police commissioner and politician, President of the Victorian Legislative Council for fourteen years. Life Mitchell was the son of the Rev. George Barkley Mitchell of Leicester, England, vicar of St. Mary's and All Saints', Leicester, and chaplain to the late Duke of York. Mitchell came to Tasmania in January 1833 on the ''Sir Thomas Munro'' and entered the government service. In 1839 he became assistant colonial secretary. On 21 August 1841, he married Christina, daughter of Andrew Templeton of Glasgow. On 21 March 1842, he resigned his appointment and in April they sailed for Port Phillip where he acquired Barfold station near Kyneton and a property in Mount Macedon districts becoming a large proprietor. Mitchell entered the provisional Victorian Legislative Council in 1852. He was appointed by lieutenant-governor Charles La Trobe the first Chief Commissioner of the newly formed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Miller (Australian Politician)
Henry Miller (31 December 1809 β 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, ''nΓ©e'' 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] |
John McCrae (Australian Politician)
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae (November 30, 1872 β January 28, 1918) was a Canadian poet, physician, author, artist and soldier during World War I, and a surgeon during the Second Battle of Ypres, in Belgium. He is best known for writing the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". McCrae died of pneumonia near the end of the war. His famous poem is a threnody, a genre of lament. Biography McCrae was born in McCrae House in Guelph, Ontario to Lieutenant-Colonel David McCrae and Janet Simpson Eckford; he was the grandson of Scottish immigrants from Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire. His father had seen action during the Fenian raids, and was a member of the Guelph city council and a director of The North American Life Assurance Company. His brother, Dr. Thomas McCrae, became a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore and close associate of Sir William Osler. His sister Geills married James Kilgour, a justice of the Court of King's Bench of Mani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lowe (Australian Politician)
John Lowe may refer to: Sports * John Lowe (darts player) (born 1945), English darts player. * John Lowe (footballer) (1912β1995), Scottish football player * John Lowe (rugby league), English rugby league footballer * John Lowe (cricketer) (1888β1970), English cricketer * John Lowe (sportswriter) (fl. 1980sβ2020s), American sportswriter Politicians * John Lowe (MP) (1628β1667), English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667 * John Lowe (Nebraska politician) (born 1959), member of the Nebraska Legislature Entertainment * John Muir Lowe (1898β1988), better known as John Loder * John Lowe (musician) (born 1942), English musician Religion * John Lowe (martyr) John Lowe (1553β1586) was an English Catholic priest and martyr. John Lowe was born the son of Simon Lowe (or Low) and Margaret Lacy of London in 1553. His father Simon was perhaps the Simon Low who was a merchant-tailor and citizen of Londo ... (1553β1586), English Catholic priest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caleb Jenner
Caleb Joshua Jenner (9 December 1830 β 27 June 1890) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Jenner was born in Alfriston, Sussex, England, the son of Thomas Jenner and his wife Sarah, ''nΓ©e'' Ralf. He came to Victoria in 1850, and engaged in commercial pursuits at Geelong. Jenner held the office of president of the first reform league, established for the purpose of protecting native Industries. Jenner represented the South Western Province in the Legislative Council for more than twenty years, being returned in March 1863 in opposition to Charles Griffith, and from 1875 to 1883 was Chairman of Committees. From September 1869 to April 1870 he acted as the representative of the John Alexander MacPherson Government in the Legislative Council, and subsequently discharged the same functions for the Charles Gavan Duffy Government. Jenner, who retired from the Council in July 1886, was a director of numerous local companies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Hull
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic αΉαααα¨αΊαααα¨α, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse α’αααα αΌα ααα α, ''VilhjΓ‘lmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Highett
William Highett (1807 β 29 November 1880) was a banker, landowner and politician in colonial Victoria. He was also a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life Highett was born in Weymouth, Dorset, England, in December 1807. His parents were Joseph Highett and his wife Elizabeth, ''nΓ©e'' Harding. There were at least three siblings, John (born 1810), Sarah (1812) and Mary (1817). Colonial Australia Along with his brother John, William Highett arrived in Hobart Town aboard the ''Elizabeth'' in February 1830. They had intended to continue on to Sydney but decided to settle in Tasmania, obtaining a grant of 500 acres of land near George Town. They later acquired additional land near Launceston and Campbell Town. While John managed their landholdings, William became the accountant of the Launceston branch of the Bank of Van Diemenβs Land in May 1832. When the branch closed, William joined the Tamar Banking Company as a cashier in January 1835. The brothers had cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastern Province (Victoria)
Eastern Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council, Victoria being a colony in the continent of Australia at the time. It was one of the six original Provinces of the bi-cameral Legislative Council created in November 1856. Its area was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act of 1855 as Eastern Province was abolished by the Legislative Council Act of 1881 (taking effect at the November 1882 elections). Eastern Province was replaced by the new provinces of North Eastern and Gippsland of three members each. Members for Eastern Province These were members of the upper house province of the Victorian Legislative Council. After Eastern Province was abolished in 1882, Anderson and Wallace went on to represent North Eastern from 1882; Dougharty, McCulloch and Pearson went on to represent Gippsland Gippsland is a rural region that makes up the southeastern part of Victoria, Australia, mostly comprising the coastal plains to the rainward (southern) s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Hervey
Matthew Hervey (27 January 1820 β 1 December 1874) was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Commissioner of Public Works. Hervey was born in Glasgow, Scotland, when eighteen years of age he emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and ultimately was largely engaged in pastoral pursuits in the Port Phillip District, which in 1851 was constituted the separate colony of Victoria. He played two first-class cricket matches for Victoria cricket team, Victoria in 1851 and 1852. Hervey was elected to the part-nominated Victorian Legislative Council on 3 June 1853 for the Electoral district of Murray (Victorian Legislative Council), Murray district and sworn-in August 1853. When responsible government was achieved he was returned to the first wholly elective Legislative Council for the Eastern Province (Victoria), Eastern Province in November 1856. From March 1861 to November 1862 he was acting president of the latter body during the absence in England of Sir James ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
