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Philip Grimwade
Philip Sheppard Grimwade (9 April 1912 – 7 September 1961) was an Australian politician. He was born in Geelong to medical practitioner Alfred Sheppard Grimwade and Amy Gertrude Tanner. He attended Geelong College, and was a farmer at Geelong from 1930. In 1936 he purchased property at Broadford. During World War II he served 20th Motor Regiment. He was from a political family, being the grandson of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade and uncle of Fred Grimwade Frederick Sheppard "Fred" Grimwade (12 September 1933 – 23 February 1989) was an Australian politician. Grimwade was born in Melbourne, the son of Erick Grimwade (whose grandfather was a state politician) and Gwendolen Ada Carnegie. He a .... He served on Pyalong Shire Council from 1939 to 1961, and was president from 1943 to 1944 and from 1956 to 1957. In 1947 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Liberal member for Goulburn, but he was defeated after a single term in 1950. Grimwade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong, Victoria
Geelong ( ) (Wathawurrung: ''Djilang''/''Djalang'') is a port city in the southeastern Australian state of Victoria, located at the eastern end of Corio Bay (the smaller western portion of Port Phillip Bay) and the left bank of Barwon River, about southwest of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria. Geelong is the second largest Victorian city (behind Melbourne) with an estimated urban population of 268,277 as of June 2018, Estimated resident population, 30 June 2018. and is also Australia's second fastest-growing city. Geelong is also known as the "Gateway City" due to its critical location to surrounding western Victorian regional centres like Ballarat in the northwest, Torquay, Great Ocean Road and Warrnambool in the southwest, Hamilton, Colac and Winchelsea to the west, providing a transport corridor past the Central Highlands for these regions to the state capital Melbourne in its northeast. The City of Greater Geelong is also a member of thGateway Cities Alliancei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geelong College
, motto_translation = Thus one goes to the stars , established = , type = Independent, co-educational, day and boarding, Christian school , denomination = in association with the Uniting Church , slogan = , principal = Peter Miller , chaplain = Stephen Wright , founder = Alexander James Campbell , key_people = , city = Newtown , state = Victoria , country = Australia , coordinates = , gender = Co-educational , enrolment = 1,200-1,300 (K–12) , num_employ = , colours = , affiliation = Associated Public Schools of Victoria , website = The Geelong College is an Australian independent and co-educational, Christian day and boarding school located in Newtow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadford, Victoria
Broadford is a small town in central Victoria, Australia. At the 2021 census, Broadford had a population of 4,076. The town is the headquarters of the Shire of Mitchell local government area and is approximately north of the state capital, Melbourne. Broadford lies on the major transport routes between Melbourne and Sydney. The town is bypassed to the east by the Hume Freeway and the railway line linking the two cities passes through Broadford. Broadford is built on the banks of Sunday Creek, a tributary of the Goulburn River. History The original inhabitants of Broadford are the Taungurong people, a part of the Kulin nation that inhabited a large portion of central Victoria including Port Phillip Bay and its surrounds. A 1934 document recalling the 1870s notes the "Puckapunyal tribe, and there were about twenty in number. … I knew four of them fairly well, one of whom was called Billy Hamilton (and claimed to be the son of the Chief of the Puckapunyal tribe) his lubra, Mary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers. World War II was a total war that directly involved more than 100 million personnel from more than 30 countries. The major participants in the war threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. Aircraft played a major role in the conflict, enabling the strategic bombing of population centres and deploying the only two nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II was by far the deadliest conflict in human history; it resulted in 70 to 85 million fatalities, mostly among civilians. Tens of millions died due to genocides (including the Holocaust), starvation, ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Sheppard Grimwade
Frederick Sheppard Grimwade (10 November 1840 – 4 August 1910) was a businessman and Victorian member of parliament. Born in Norfolk, England, Grimwade arrived in Victoria in 1863. In 1867 he bought a pharmaceutical company and renamed it Felton Grimwade & Co.; it soon became the largest in the colony, prospering well into the next century. Today some of Australia's largest public companies have a lineage going back to his family and businesses. Grimwade represented North Yarra Province in the Legislative Council for thirteen years from 1891. He opposed gambling, workers' compensation, old-age pensions and the national harmonization of time zones, but he passionately and successfully advocated for the legalization of cremation. Legacy Frederick Grimwade was buried in St Kilda Cemetery on 5 August 1910. His mansion, "Harleston" (1875), was later donated by his family to Melbourne Grammar School and renamed Grimwade House. His country retreat at Somers on the Mornington P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Grimwade
Frederick Sheppard "Fred" Grimwade (12 September 1933 – 23 February 1989) was an Australian politician. Grimwade was born in Melbourne, the son of Erick Grimwade (whose grandfather was a state politician) and Gwendolen Ada Carnegie. He attended Melbourne Grammar School and Melbourne University, where he was a resident student at Trinity College. He graduated with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science, and then undertook further study at Iowa State College in the United States. He subsequently farmed at Glenaroua Homestead in Broadford. On 3 May 1956 he married Joan Elizabeth Rich, State Commissioner of the Victorian Girl Guides Association from 1973 to 1978. Grimwade was involved in several beef farming societies as well as the agriculture faculty of Melbourne University, and was on the council of the Bendigo Institute of Technology and the state Liberal Party. He was a member of Pyalong Shire Council from 1961 to 1980, serving as president from 1962 to 1963 and 1972 to 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Pyalong
The Shire of Pyalong was a local government area about north of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1863 until 1994. History Pyalong was incorporated as a road district on 2 September 1863, and became a shire on 5 May 1871. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 18 November 1994, the Shire of Pyalong was abolished, and along with the Rural City of Seymour, the Shire of Broadford and parts of the Shire of McIvor, was merged into the newly created Shire of Mitchell. Wards The Shire of Pyalong was divided into three ridings, each of which elected three councillors: * East Riding * South Riding * West Riding Towns and localities * Glenaroua * Moranding * Puckapunyal * Pyalong* * Sugarloaf Creek * Council seat. Population * Estimate in the 1958 Victorian Year Book. References External links Victorian Places - Pyalong {{DEFAULTSORT:Shire Of Pyalong Pyalong Pyalong is a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker. There are presently 88 members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original unicameral Legislative Council. The Assembly first met on 21 November 1856, and consisted of sixty members representing thirty-seven multi and single-member electorates. On the Federation of Australia on 1 January 1901, the Parliament of Victoria continued except that the colony was now called a state. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Australia (Victorian Division)
The Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division), branded as Liberal Victoria, and commonly known as the Victorian Liberals, is the state division of the Liberal Party of Australia in Victoria. It was formed in 1949 as the Liberal and Country Party (LCP), and simplified its name to the Liberal Party in 1965. There was a previous Victorian division of the Liberal Party when the Liberal Party was formed in 1945, but it ceased to exist and merged to form the LCP in March 1949. History Background Robert Menzies, who was the Prime Minister of Australia between 1939 and 1941, founded the Liberal Party during a conference held in Canberra in October 1944, uniting many non-Labor political organisations, including the United Australia Party (UAP) and the Australian Women's National League (AWNL). The UAP was a major conservative party in Australia and last governed Victoria between May 1932 and April 1935 under Stanley Argyle's leadership. Argyle lost premiership when the UAP's co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Goulburn (Victoria)
Electoral district of Goulburn was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria. It was preceded by the Electoral district of Goulburn Valley The Electoral district of Goulburn Valley was an electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. The district was replaced by the district of Goulburn in 1945. Members for Goulburn Valley :George Graham represented Numurkah and ..., which was abolished in 1945. Members Election results References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1945 establishments in Australia 1955 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Melbourne, Victoria
East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, east of Melbourne's Melbourne central business district, Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. East Melbourne recorded a population of 4,896 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. East Melbourne is a small area of inner Melbourne, located between Richmond, Victoria, Richmond and the Central Business District. Broadly, it is bounded by Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Victoria Street, Melbourne, Victoria Parade, Hoddle Highway, Punt Road/Hoddle Street and Brunton Avenue. One of Melbourne's earliest suburbs, East Melbourne has long been home to many significant government, health and religious institutions, including the Parliament of Victoria and offices of the Victoria State Government in the Parliamentary and Cathedral precincts, which are located on a gentle hill at the edge of the Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Smith (Australian Politician)
Joseph Henry Smith (17 March 1904 – 2 April 1993) was an Australian politician. He was born in Mansfield to farmer Sidney Gordon Smith and Isabella Martin. He attended state schools and worked on the family farm, and worked briefly for the Electricity Commission before becoming an engine cleaner. In the Great Depression he was unemployed, but he later rejoined the railways and became an engine driver. On 11 August 1934 he married Thelma Duffield, with whom he had two children. He was an active member of the Labor Party and served as chairman of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen. In 1945 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Goulburn. He was defeated in 1947 but re-elected in 1950. From 1952 to 1953 he was Assistant Minister of Lands, and from 1953 to 1955 Minister of Lands, Soldier Settlement and Conservation. His seat was abolished in 1955 and he was defeated contesting Broadmeadows. He farmed near Seymour Seymour may refer to: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
