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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1890–1892
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council from the elections of 11 September 1890 to the elections of 8 September 1892. From 1889 there were fourteen Provinces and a total of 48 members. :Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province. James MacBain was President of the Victorian Legislative Council, President of the Council, Frank Dobson was Chairman of Committees. : Beaney died 30 June 1891; replaced by William Pitt (Australian politician), William Pitt, sworn-in August 1891. : Butters resigned around April 1892, replaced by Arthur Sachse, sworn-in May 1892. : Illingworth resigned around April 1891; replaced by Joseph Sternberg, sworn-in June 1891. : Le fevre died 17 October 1891; replaced by Frederick Sheppard Grimwade, Frederick Grimwade, sworn-in November 1891. : Macpherson died 23 August 1891; replaced by Samuel Williamson (Australian politician), Samuel Williamson, sworn-in October 1891. : ... [...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] |
Southern Province (Victoria)
Southern Province (also known as South Province) was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council. Southern Province was created in 1856, after the colony of Victoria obtained self-government. It was one of the six original Legislative Council provinces of the newly established bicameral Victorian Parliament. Southern Province was finally abolished in 1970, after Boronia Province and Templestowe Province were created in 1967. Members for Southern Province The Victorian Legislative Council was the upper house the Victorian Parliament. The province was initially represented by five members. That was reduced to three after the redistribution of provinces in 1882, when South Eastern, South Yarra, North Yarra, North Eastern, North Central, Melbourne East, Melbourne North, Melbourne South, Melbourne West and Wellington Provinces were created. After 1904, when more provinces were created, the representation was reduced to two. Prior to self-government, Donald Kennedy had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Yarra Province
South Yarra Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from November 1882 until May 1904. South Yarra Province was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished. The new South Yarra, North Yarra, North Central, South Eastern and Melbourne Provinces were then created. The Legislative Council Act, 1881, created and defined the South Yarra Province as: South Yarra Province was abolished in another redistribution of Provinces in 1904; new provinces including East Yarra, Melbourne East Province, Melbourne North Province, Melbourne South Province and Melbourne West Province Melbourne West Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from 1904 until 2006. It was created in June 1904 when Melbourne Province was reduced in size (four members down to two), North Yarra Province and South Yarra Pro ...s were created. Members for South Yarra Province These were members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Mark Davies
Sir John Mark Davies (8 February 184012 September 1919) was a British-born Australian politician. Born in Halstead, Essex, England in 1840, Davies was the fifth eldest of the six boys and six girls of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett. Two of the younger boys were educated at Geelong Grammar School. John was articled in 1852 and in 1863 was admitted to the Supreme Court of Victoria as a solicitor. He worked as a partner in a law firm for some years, and was President of the Law Institute of Victoria in 1885–86; he was made the group's first honorary life member in 1919. Political career Davies served in the Victorian Legislative Council from 1889 to 1919, representing first the South Yarra Province (1889–1895) then Melbourne Province (1899–1919). and was Minister for Health for two months in 1891. He was the Solicitor-General under both Allan McLean (1899–1900) and William Irvine (1902–1903), and later Irvine's Minister for Public Instruction (1903) and Att ... [...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] |
Wellington Province (Victoria)
Wellington Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council, the upper house of the Victorian Parliament. Wellington Province was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882, under which the Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished and the Wellington, North Central, South Yarra, North Yarra, South Eastern and Melbourne Provinces were formed. Wellington Province was defined by the Legislative Council Act 1881 (which took effect from the 1882 elections) as consisting of the following divisions: Talbot Shire, Talbot Borough, Clunes, Tullaroop, Carisbrook, Maryborough, Creswick Shire, Creswick Borough, Bungaree, Ballaarat City, Ballaarat East and Sebastopol. Wellington was abolished in 1940, soon after new provinces of Ballarat, Doutta Galla, Higinbotham and Monash were created in 1937. Members for Wellington Province Three members were elected to the province initially; four from the expansion of the Council in 1889; two from the redistribution o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Cuthbert
Sir Henry Cuthbert , (29 July 1829 – 5 April 1907) was a politician in Victoria (Australia), member of the Victorian Legislative Council. Cuthbert was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland, the eldest son of John Cuthbert. Cuthbert was educated at Drogheda Grammar School, winning the classical medal, and studied law. In 1854 he was admitted a solicitor in Ireland, and the same year left for Victoria, where he was at once admitted to practice. In 1855 he went to Ballarat, and, besides being successful in his profession, became largely interested in mining. He was the original promoter of the Buninyong Gold Mining Company. In September 1874 Cuthbert was returned to the Legislative Council, unopposed, for the South-Western Province, and in November 1882 was transferred to the new Wellington Province. Cuthbert held the office of Postmaster-General of Victoria in the second Graham Berry Administration from July 1877 to July 1878, when he resigned in consequence of inability to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Coutts (Australian Politician)
David Conrad Coutts Encyclopedia.com is a politician who represented the of in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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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] |
Western Province (Victoria)
Western Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia), the upper house of the Parliament of Victoria. Victoria was a colony in Australia when Western Province was created. From Federation in 1901, Victoria was a state in the Commonwealth of Australia. Western Province was one of the six original upper house Provinces of the bi-cameral Victorian Parliament created in November 1856. Western Province was defined in the Victorian Constitution Act, 1855, as : "Including the Counties of Ripon, Hampden, Heytesbury, Villiers, Normanby, Dundas, and Follett." In 1882, several new Provinces were created, including Nelson Province and Wellington Province, the numbers of members elected for Western Province was reduced to three from this time. Another redistribution in 1904 reduced the number of members to two. In 2006, the Western Province (along with all the other provinces in the Legislative Council) was abolished and replaced by regions. All of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Cooke
Samuel Winter Cooke (13 March 1847 – 26 June 1929) was an Australian politician. Early life Cooke was the son of pastoralist Cecil Pybus Cooke and Arbella, née Winter. He was sent to England for his schooling, where he attended Mr Shapcott's school and Cheltenham College, subsequently taking a Bachelor of Arts at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1870. He was called to the Bar in 1872, and returned to Victoria in 1873, where he also briefly practiced law. He inherited a property near Hamilton from his uncle Samuel Pratt Winter, where he bred cattle and horses. He became well known in the district as an aristocratic and imperialist man, but gained a reputation as a host. He also became prominent in racing, presiding over the Pastoral and Agricultural Society, Race Club and Hunt, and the Melbourne Club in 1896. Politics A Portland Shire councillor from 1879–85, he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council in 1888. He was minister without portfolio from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Connor (politician)
Joe or Joseph Connor may refer to: * Joe Connor (baseball) (1874–1957), American baseball player * Joe Connor (footballer, born 1877) (1877–1934), Irish footballer * Joe Connor (footballer, born 1986), English footballer See also * Joe Connors (1862–1891), American baseball player *Joseph Connors (born 1945), American art historian *Joseph Conners Joseph Conners (born 28 May 1987) is an English professional wrestler. Conners competed in many British wrestling promotions, most notably New Generation Wrestling (NGW) and What Culture Pro Wrestling (WCPW), where he was a one-time WCPW Champ ..., British professional wrestler * L. Joseph Connors, American politician, lawyer, and businessman {{hndis, Connor, Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
