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Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Council, 1894–1896
This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 16 July 1894 to 27 July 1896. The chamber had 21 seats made up of seven provinces each electing three members, on a system of rotation whereby one-third of the members would retire at each biennial election. As this was the first election of the Legislative Council under responsible government in Western Australia, following the passage of the ''Constitution Act Amendment Act 1893'', all seats were vacant at the time of the election, and therefore the candidate with most votes in each province was elected for six years, the second-most for four years and the third-most for two years. Notes : On 19 December 1894, Edward Wittenoom ( Central Province) was appointed Minister for Mines in the Forrest Ministry. He was therefore required to resign and submit to a ministerial by-election, and was returned unopposed on 17 January 1895. : On 11 July 1895, the seat held by Harry Marshall ( West Province) was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Responsible Government
Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamentary democracy. Governments (the equivalent of the executive branch) in Westminster democracies are responsible to parliament rather than to the monarch, or, in a colonial context, to the imperial government, and in a republican context, to the president, either in full or in part. If the parliament is bicameral, then the government is responsible first to the parliament's lower house, which is more representative than the upper house, as it usually has more members and they are always directly elected. Responsible government of parliamentary accountability manifests itself in several ways. Ministers account to Parliament for their decisions and for the performance of their departments. This requirement to make announcements and to answer questions in Parliament means that ministers must have the priv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Johnson Haynes
Samuel Johnson Haynes (22 March 1852 – 3 February 1932) was an Australian barrister and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1894 to 1910, representing South-East Province. Haynes was born in Leek, Staffordshire, England, to Sarah Ann (née Johnson) and George Haynes. His parents left for Australia when he was a small child, settling in Port Fairy, Victoria. Haynes was sent to grammar school in England, but returned to Australia to study law. He completed his legal studies in South Australia, and was called to the bar there in 1886. In 1888, Haynes moved to Albany, Western Australia, where he established his own law firm. He eventually went into partnership with Robert Thomson Robinson, a future Attorney-General of Western Australia. Haynes was elected to parliament at the 1894 Legislative Council elections, which were the first to be held since the advent of responsible government in 1890. His initial term was for four years, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Shenton
Sir George Shenton (4 March 1842 – 29 June 1909) was a prominent businessman in colonial Western Australia, the first Mayor of Perth, and a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council for over thirty years. Early and family life George Shenton was born in Perth, Western Australia on 4 March 1842, the eldest son of George Shenton Sr, a wealthy businessman who was Perth's first pharmacist. Shenton Jnr was educated locally until 1855, when at the age of 13 he was sent to England to complete his education at the Wesleyan Collegiate Institute ( Queen's College) in Taunton. In 1858 he returned to Perth, where he received experience working in a range of his father's businesses, including running his father's store in Geraldton, and managing the family's farm on the Greenough River. On 4 November 1868, Shenton married Julia Theresa Eichbaum in a ceremony at Fremantle. Business activities On 5 March 1867, Shenton Snr drowned when his schooner, ''The Lass of Geraldton'', ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Saunders (politician)
Henry John Saunders (16 February 1855 – 13 October 1919) was an Australian engineer, businessman and politician. He was a prominent mining entrepreneur during the Western Australian gold rush and served on the Western Australian Legislative Council (1894–1902), as mayor of Perth (1895–1898), and briefly as a Senator for Western Australia (1903). Early life Saunders was born on 16 February 1855 in London, England, the son of Maria Albers (née Pedder) and Thomas Bush Saunders. His father was a barrister. He attended Clifton College in Bristol, then trained as a civil engineer. He immigrated to Western Australia in 1884 and settled in Perth. He became the chief engineer of the Midland Railway Company and established the firm of Saunders and Barrett. During the Western Australian gold rush, Saunders made a fortune as a mining entrepreneur. He floated the West Australian Goldfields Company in London in 1894 which paid a 40 percent dividend in its first year. He was also i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Robinson (Australian Politician)
Edward Robinson (c. August 1839 – 31 January 1913) was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1894 to 1896. Born in Brampton, Suffolk, England, Robinson was the son of veterinarian William Robinson, and Margaret Maria née Ford, from Sunninghill, Berkshire, England. His father died on the ship 'Success' leaving his mother and five small children. At the age of four he emigrated to Western Australia with his family, arriving on board the ''Success'' in March 1843. He received no formal schooling, and worked as a shepherd in the Brookton area from a young age. In 1859 he was working as a labourer for John Seabrook, and in 1863 he accompanied Henry Maxwell Lefroy on an exploring expedition to the east of York. The following year he look up land at Pingelly, where he established a wheat and sheep farm in partnership with his stepbrother. He also took up 2000 acres (8 km²) at Brookton, establishing the ''Sunning Hill'' farm. In 1874 he made a seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Province (Western Australia)
North Province was an electoral province of the Legislative Council of Western Australia between 1894 and 1989. It elected three members between 1894 and 1965 and two members between 1965 and 1989. Members ---- References * David Black (2014)''The Western Australian Parliamentary Handbook (Twenty-Third Edition)'' pp. 221–222, 226 {{coord missing, Western Australia Former electoral provinces of Western Australia 1900 establishments in Australia 1989 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Richardson (Western Australian Politician)
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Charles Piesse
Charles Austin Piesse (11 November 1855 – 13 July 1914) was an Australian businessman and politician who served as a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1894 until his death. He was a minister in the government of Newton Moore. Piesse was born in Northam, Western Australia, to Elizabeth Ellen (née Oxley) and William Roper Piesse. His three brothers, Alfred, Arnold, and Frederick Piesse, were also members of parliament. After leaving school, Piesse was briefly involved in the pearling trade at Shark Bay, later purchasing a farm near Williams (a small Wheatbelt farm). In 1880, he went into business with his brother Frederick, formed the firm of F. &. C. Piesse. They initially ran a general store at Williams, but later expanded to Arthur River, Wagin, and Katanning. In 1887, Piesse was elected as the first chairman of the newly created Arthur Roads Board, serving in the position until 1890. He was elected to parliament at the 1894 Legislative Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Province
An ecclesiastical province is one of the basic forms of jurisdiction in Christian Churches with traditional hierarchical structure, including Western Christianity and Eastern Christianity. In general, an ecclesiastical province consists of several dioceses (or eparchies), one of them being the archdiocese (or archeparchy), headed by a metropolitan bishop or archbishop who has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over all other bishops of the province. In the Greco-Roman world, ''ecclesia'' ( grc, ἐκκλησία; la, ecclesia) was used to refer to a lawful assembly, or a called legislative body. As early as Pythagoras, the word took on the additional meaning of a community with shared beliefs. This is the meaning taken in the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures (the Septuagint), and later adopted by the Christian community to refer to the assembly of believers. In the history of Western world (sometimes more precisely as Greco-Roman world) adopted by the Roman Empire and the Byz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Henry Parker
Sir Stephen Henry Parker (7 November 1846 – 13 December 1927) was a lawyer and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Western Australia from 1906 to 1914. Biography Early life Stephen Henry Parker was the second son of Stephen Stanley Parker (1817–1904) and his wife Elizabeth, née Sewell. He was the grandson of Stephen Parker (1879), a pioneer settler in York, Western Australia. Parker was educated at the Bishop's School, Perth, and was called to the bar in 1868. Career He became a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council and advocated responsible government for the colony. In 1878 he moved for the introduction of a bill to amend the constitution, but this motion was defeated. A constitution bill for responsible government was passed by the Legislative Council on 26 April 1889, but was met with some opposition in the British House of Commons. It was suggested and agreed that a delegation consisting of the retiring governor, Sir Frederick Broome, Sir Thomas C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Marshall (politician)
Thomas Henry Marshall ( – 28 December 1909) was an Australian politician, publican and merchant who served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from 1894 to 1895. Biography Marshall was born in Western Australia, with his precise birthplace having been listed as Baylup, Toodyay or Fremantle. He was the son of Louisa Harris or Tulk and Edward Marshall, a convict who originally arrived in Western Australia aboard ''Ramillies'' in 1854. Marshall served as a councillor for the Western Australian towns of Fremantle (resigned in 1895) and Cue (from 1906). He served in the Western Australian Legislative Council as the third member for West Province from 1894 to 1895. In his final years, Marshall operated as licensee of the Great Fingall and Day Dawn hotels. On 28 December 1909, he died in Day Dawn, aged 47, due to gastroenteritis Gastroenteritis, also known as infectious diarrhea and gastro, is an inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract including the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward McLarty
Edward McLarty (1 December 1848 – 13 August 1917) was an Australian pastoralist and politician who was a member of the Legislative Council of Western Australia from 1894 to 1916, representing South-West Province. McLarty was born in Pinjarra, in Western Australia's Peel region. His brother, John Pollard McLarty, was also a member of parliament. McLarty managed a run at Mandurah for a period in the 1860s, and later had his own stud in Pinjarra, on a property of . Prominent in agricultural circles, he was elected to the Murray Road Board in 1875 (on which he would serve for most of the rest of his life), and was also appointed a justice of the peace. McLarty was elected to parliament at the 1894 Legislative Council elections, which were the first for that body under responsible government Responsible government is a conception of a system of government that embodies the principle of parliamentary accountability, the foundation of the Westminster system of parliamen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
