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Peter Garrisson
Peter Wolseley Garrisson (18 March 1923 – 20 April 2013) was an Australian politician. He was born in Cremorne to American-born builder John Garrisson and Mina Dean Scott. He was educated in Sydney and worked for the Shell Oil Company before serving in the AIF during World War II. He worked for Shell in western New South Wales before becoming a director with Colliers Transport in 1949 and of Garrisson Motors from 1950. In 1958 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal and Country Party member for Hawthorn. He resigned from the party in 1963 and was defeated as an Independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Artist groups * Independents (artist group), a group of modernist painters based in the New Hope, Pennsylvania, area of the United States during the early 1930s * Independ ... Liberal in 1964. He was subsequently a property developer and real estate agent. Garrisson died in 2013. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cremorne, New South Wales
Cremorne is a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, located 6 kilometres north-east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of North Sydney Council. Cremorne Junction is a locality within the suburb. Immediately adjacent to the suburb, to the south, is the small residential suburb of Cremorne Point. Cremorne is situated between Mosman and Neutral Bay. History Aboriginal culture Prior to the arrival of the First Fleet, the area in which Cremorne is situated was inhabited by the Cam-mer-ray-gal group of the Ku-ring-gai Aboriginal nation. The group, which inhabited the north shore of Port Jackson, was one of the largest in the Sydney area. European settlement Cremorne was named after the Cremorne Gardens in London, a popular pleasure ground in England, which derived its name from the Old Irish words ''Crích Mugdornd'' (modern Irish: ''Críoch Mhúrn''), meaning 'boundary' or 'chieftain' of Mugdornd. Cremorne, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |