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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1876–1878
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council from the elections of 15 August – 15 November 1876 to the elections of 17 August to 16 September 1878. 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. William Mitchell was President of the Council, Caleb Jenner was Chairman of Committees. : Murphy resigned November 1876, replaced by Robert Dyce Reid the same month. 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, 1876-1878 Members of the Parliament of Victoria by term 1 ... [...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] |
North Western Province (Victoria)
North Western Province (or North-Western Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), created in 1856 and was abolished in 2006. Victoria was a British colony in Australia when North-Western Province was created, it became a state of Australia on Federation on 1 January 1901. North Western was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856, each Province initially having five members. Located in the far north-west of Victoria, "North-Western Province" was defined in the Victoria Constitution Act 1855, as ''"Including the Counties of Talbot and Dalhousie, and the Pastoral District of the Wimmera and of the Loddon, except the proposed County of Rodney."'' Members for North Western Province Five members were elected initially, three after the redistribution of 1882 when Northern Northern may refer to the following: Geography * North, a point in direction * Northern Europe, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Murphy (Australian Politician)
Sir Francis Murphy (1809 – 30 March 1891) was an Australian politician, first Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Life Murphy was the son of Francis D. Murphy, who was for upwards of thirty years head of the South of Ireland Transport of Convicts Department. Francis was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1809, and after being educated in his native city, entered at Trinity College, Dublin, as a medical student, ultimately being admitted M.R.C.S. of London. In June 1836 Dr. Murphy emigrated to Sydney, New South Wales, and was immediately nominated by the Governor Sir Richard Bourke to a position on the staff of colonial surgeons. On appointment he proceeded to take charge of a portion of the southern district in the county of Argyle, but soon afterwards being led into agricultural pursuits, he resigned his official position, and finally discontinued practice as a medical man. After leaving the Government service, Dr. Murphy purchased a considerable quantity of land at Argy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Henry Fancourt Mitchell
Sir William Henry Fancourt Mitchell (November 1811 – 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] |
Caleb Jenner
Caleb Joshua Jenner (9 December 1830 – 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, ''née'' 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 Highett
William Highett (1807 – 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, ''née'' 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 Diemen’s 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] |
James Henty
James Henty (24 September 1800 – 12 January 1882), was pioneer, merchant and politician in colonial Australia. Early life James Henty was the eldest son of Thomas Henty, a wealthy English land-owner and banker from Tarring, West Sussex. He was born at Tarring and his younger brothers included Edward Henty and Stephen Henty. As a young man James assisted his father in the farming business at Church Farm for a while and then afterwards studied law and managed the family bank which had branches across the county. Church Farm was well-known for its high class merino sheep which appear to have originally been given to Thomas Henty as a gift from the King of England. The merinos bred at Church Farm were sold and exported to British colonists in New South Wales such as John Macarthur. After an economic crisis in the mid-1820s crippled England, James became convinced that the family should emigrate to the colonies in Australia where their considerable wealth would allow them to re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hamilton (Australian Politician)
Thomas Ferrier Hamilton (31 March 1820 – 7 August 1905) was an Australian politician, pastoralist, and sportsman. A grandson of the 2nd Viscount Gort, he was born in Linlithgowshire, Scotland, but emigrated to Australia in 1839. Hamilton and his cousin, John Carre Riddell, owned a pastoral lease near Gisborne, Victoria. A local magistrate and justice of the peace, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1872, sitting as a member for the Southern Province until 1884. He also sat on the Gisborne Road Board, including as chairman for a time. A member (and twice president) of the Melbourne Cricket Club, Hamilton was a keen cricketer, and played several matches for Victorian representative teams, including the inaugural first-class match in Australia. Family and early life Hamilton was born at Cathlaw House, in Torphichen, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, on 31 March 1820. His father was Col. John Ferrier Hamilton, of the 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Graham (Victorian Politician)
James Graham (5 February 1819 – 31 July 1898) was a merchant and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Early life Graham was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, the son of Dr. James Moore Graham and his wife Anna Maria, ''née'' Ievers. Graham was educated at Ennis College and Madras Academy, Cupar, after the family moved to Fife in 1832. Colonial Australia Graham junior arrived in Sydney in 1839 and travelled overland to the Port Phillip District. On 29 August 1853 Graham was nominated to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council along with several others due to the expansion of the Council. Graham held this position until resigning in July 1854. Graham was elected to Central Province in the Council in January 1867, a seat he held until transferring in November 1882 to South Yarra Province. Graham was a member of the Royal commission in the Federal Union in 1870. Graham died in South Yarra South Yarra is an inner-city subu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Fraser (Victorian Politician)
Alexander Fraser (2 January 1802 – 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, ''née'' 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] |
Nicholas Fitzgerald (politician)
Nicholas Fitzgerald (7 August 1829 – 17 August 1908) was an Australian brewer, company director and politician. He was co-founder of the Castlemaine brewery in Melbourne, chairman of directors of the Castlemaine Brewery Company (Melbourne) and a member of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1864 until 1907. Early life and business career Fitzgerald was born in Galway, Ireland to Francis Fitzgerald and Eleanor Joyes. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Queen's College, Galway and entered the King's Inns in 1848. He worked in both Ceylon and India before following his brother, Edward Fitzgerald, to Victoria in 1859. His brother had established a brewery at Castlemaine in 1857, and Fitzgerald joined him in the business upon his arrival. The Castlemaine Brewery was successful and the brothers went on to own breweries in Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. He co-founded their Melbourne brewery with partner J. B. Perrins in 1872, floated it as the Castlemaine B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Dobson (Australian Politician)
Hon. Frank Stanley Dobson (20 April 1835 – 1 June 1895), was an Australian politician. A former member of the Victorian Legislative Council, Dobson was born in Tasmania to parents John and Mary Anne, and was the brother of Sir William Dobson and half-brother of Alfred Dobson (Australian politician), Alfred and Henry Dobson. He was educated in Tasmania and England, earning degrees in arts and law, eventually becoming an academic, then a parliamentarian and Solicitor-General of Victoria. Early life Dobson was born on 20 April 1835. Educated at The Hutchins School, Hobart, and St. John's College, Cambridge, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1861 and Doctor of Laws in 1870. Dobson entered at the Middle Temple in January 1856, and was Call to the bar, called to the English bar in April 1860, and to the Tasmanian bar on 28 August 1861. Having taken up his residence in Australia, he was called to the Victorian Bar, Victorian bar on 26 September 1861. He was Law Lecturer at the Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
