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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Council, 1916–1919
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Council at the election of 1 June 1916 up to the election of 5 June 1919. As half of the Legislative Council's terms expired at each triennial election, half of these members were elected at the 1913 triennial election with terms expiring in 1919, while the other half were elected at the 1916 triennial election with terms expiring in 1922. The Electoral Provinces Boundaries Act 1903 defined 17 Provinces with two members each for a total of 34 members. :Note the "Term in Office" refers to that members term(s) in the Council, not necessarily for that Province. John Mark Davies was President; Arthur Sachse was Chairman of Committees. : Aikman was defeated by Daniel McNamara at the 1916 elections, but McNamara was found to be ineligible and Aikman was returned to the seat. : R. Beckett died 2 June 1917; replaced by William Edgar in July 1917. : McDonald left the Council in January 1917; replaced by Alexander Bell in Mar ... [...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] |
Melbourne North Province
Melbourne North Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council until 2006. It was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Bracks is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Kate Bracks (born 1974), Australian reality television cook *Nick Bracks (born 1987), Australian male model, fashion designer and TV personality *Steve Bracks (born 1954), former Austra ... Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. Members for Melbourne North Province Election results References * http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregsearch.cfm Former electoral provinces of Victoria (Australia) 1904 establishments in Australia 2006 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Hagelthorn
Frederick William Hagelthorn (23 January 1864 – 21 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born near Ballarat to Swedish-born seaman Frederick Hagelthorn and Mary Robertson. He worked at the mines in Allendale, as a wharf lumper, and as a grocery assistant at Stawell and Horsham; he also returned to school, graduating from Creswick Grammar School in 1890. He established a store at Portland and then Horsham, where he then changed careers to become a stock and station agent in 1904. On 9 February 1905 he married Sarah Elizabeth Newton; they had five daughters. In 1907 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for North Western Province. He joined the ministry as Minister of Immigration in 1909, moving to Public Health and Public Works in June 1913. In December 1913 he shed the Public Health portfolio, and in 1915 he moved to Agriculture. Hagelthorn left the front bench in 1917, and in 1919 attempted to transfer to South Eastern Province without success. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Disney
James Herbert Arthur Disney (8 December 1864 – 28 July 1943) was an Australian politician. He was born in Ballarat West to carter and tailor Charles Disney and Sarah Darley. He left school at fourteen to become a boilermaker, and from around 1886 worked in Melbourne. On 22 April 1886 he married Isabella Christina Hill, with whom he had five children. He left Melbourne in 1889, finding difficulty due to his union connections. He spent time as a fruiterer and woodyard proprietor, and from around 1898 was a second-hand furniture dealer. He served on South Melbourne City Council from 1908 to 1918 and was mayor from 1915 to 1916. In 1916 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a Labor member, representing Melbourne West Province. He was a minister without portfolio from July to November 1924 and from 1927 to 1928. His son James was elected to the Council in 1940 for the United Australia Party. Disney continued to serve until his death at Fitzroy in 1943. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne Province
Melbourne Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council (Australia). Melbourne Province was created in 1882 when Central Province was abolished in the redistribution of Provinces. Its area included central Melbourne, Carlton, Fawkner Park and Richmond. William Hearn and James Lorimer transferred from Central to Melbourne Province that year. In 1904, another redistribution occurred and Melbourne East Province, Melbourne North Province, Melbourne South Province, 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 ... were created. The number of members representing Melbourne Province were reduced from four to two that year. Melbourne Province was abolished at the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of ... [...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] |
Gippsland Province
Gippsland Province was an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Council from November 1882 until 2006. It was based in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. Gippsland Province was created in the redistribution of provinces in 1882 when the Central and Eastern Provinces were abolished. The new Gippsland, North Central, South Yarra, North Yarra, South Eastern and Melbourne Provinces were then created. Gippsland province was defined in The Legislative Council Act 1881 and consisted of the divisions of Buln Buln, Narracan and Traralgon, Alberton, Rosedale, Maffra, Avon, Bairnsdale, Omeo, Towong, Yackandandah, Wodonga, Wood's Point, Walhalla and Sale. Gippsland Province was abolished from the 2006 state election in the wake of the Bracks Labor government's reform of the Legislative Council. The Eastern Victoria Region now covers much of the area of the old Gippsland Province. Members for Gippsland Province Three members were elected to the province initially; four f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Crooke
Edward Jolley Crooke (7 January 1861 – 23 October 1940) was an Australian politician. He was born in Rosedale to Edward Crooke and Maria Matilda Jamison. He attended Toorak Grammar School and Toorak College, and inherited his father's Rosedale property. He married Ada Menzies, with whom he had four children. He served on Rosedale Shire Council from 1889 to 1901 and from 1908 to 1940, and was thrice president (1892–93, 1895–96, 1923–24). In 1893 he won a by-election for the Victorian Legislative Council province of Gippsland. He was a minister without portfolio from 1900 to 1902. Crooke served until his retirement in 1922. He died in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ... in 1940. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Crooke, Edward 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Clarke
William Lionel Russell Clarke (31 March 1876 – 14 May 1954) was an Australian politician. He was born in South Yarra, Victoria, South Yarra to grazier Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet, William John Clarke (later a baronet) and Janet Marion Snodgrass. He attended Melbourne Grammar School, Scotch College, Melbourne, Scotch College, Trinity College, Melbourne while attending the University of Melbourne and finally Oxford University, where he received a Master of Arts in 1902. He had inherited part of his father's Ballarat estate in 1897. On 23 September 1908 he married Florence Douglas Mackenzie, with whom he had three children. In 1910 he purchased the Rupertswood estate from his brother Sir Rupert Clarke, 2nd Baronet, Sir Rupert Clarke; he sold the Ballarat property in 1912 and Rupertswood in 1922, and farmed near Albury, New South Wales, Albury from 1912 to 1919 and at Hume Weir from 1919 to 1922. In 1922 he moved to South Yarra, where he was a member of the Melbourne Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Clarke (Australian Politician)
Sir Francis Grenville Clarke (14 March 1879 – 13 February 1955) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sunbury to grazier William John Clarke (later Sir William Clarke, 1st Baronet) and Janet Marion Snodgrass. His grandfather William John Turner Clarke had been an early member of the Victorian Parliament, while his father had also served in the parliament. His brothers Sir Rupert Clarke and Russell Clarke and nephew Michael Clarke were also MPs. Frank Clarke attended Scotch College, the University of Melbourne, and Oxford University, becoming a grazier with widespread properties. On 24 July 1901 he married Nina Ellis Cotton, with whom he had six children. In 1913 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council as a non- Labor member for Northern Province. He was Minister of Lands from 1917 to 1919, Minister of Water Supply from 1917 to 1921, and Minister of Public Works from 1919 to 1923. In 1923 he left the ministry and was elected President of the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Drysdale Brown
James Drysdale Brown (21 April 1850 – 5 April 1922) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in York to accountant John Brown and Jessie Gilmour. He grew up in France, being educated in Le Havre and Paris, and migrated to Victoria in 1862. He worked as a clerk from 1866 to 1873 and than as an accountant with the Bank of Victoria at Inglewood and St Arnaud. From 1877 he was a Colonial Bank branch manager. After contracting typhoid fever, he travelled around the Pacific and to England, where he studied law. In 1894 he was called to the Victorian Bar, but he worked mainly as a mining investor in the Maryborough district. In 1904 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Nelson Province Nelson Province was constituted in 1853 under the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852, and originally covered the entire upper South Island, including all of present-day Buller, Kaikoura, Marlborough, and Tasman districts, along with Nelson Ci .... A no ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
