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Results Of The 1859 New South Wales Colonial Election
The 1859 New South Wales colonial election was for 80 members representing 67 electoral districts. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. In this election there were 9 multi-member districts returning 22 members and 58 single member districts. In the multi-member districts each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were vacancies. 15 districts were uncontested. The electoral districts and boundaries were established under the ''Electoral Act'' 1858 (NSW), The changes included an increase in the number of members from 54 to 80 and an increase in the number of districts from 54 to 67, with 62 new districts and only five of the former districts remained. The 62 new districts were based on the established Police districts. The new districts included three districts for people with a mining or business licence in the goldfields, Goldfields North, Goldfields South and Goldfields West, which did not have a res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 New South Wales Colonial Election
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Electoral District Of East Moreton (New South Wales)
East Moreton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales created for the July 1859 election, partly replacing Stanley County in the Moreton Bay region around Brisbane. It was abolished in December 1859, as a result of the Separation of Queensland The Separation of Queensland was an event in 1859 in which the land that forms the present-day State of Queensland in Australia was excised from the Colony of New South Wales and created as a separate Colony of Queensland. History European sett .... Members for East Moreton Election results Elections in the 1850s 1859 References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Electoral districts of New South Wales in the area of Queensland History of Queensland 1859 establishments in Australia 1859 disestablishments in Australia Constituencies established in 1859 Constituencies disestablished in 1859 {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lord
George William Lord (15 August 1818 – 9 May 1880) was an Australian pastoralist, businessman and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1877 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1877. Lord was the Colonial Treasurer in the third government of James Martin. Early life Lord was the seventh child of the ex-convict and pioneering entrepreneur Simeon Lord. At the age of 20 he began to acquire squatting runs in the Wellington district and by 1865 had the control of 672,000 acres. He was also a director of numerous colonial companies including, coal mines, meat works and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of William Lee. Colonial Parliament At the first election under the new constitution Lord was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Wellington and Bligh. He remained in the Assembly until 1877, representing Bogan after Welli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bogan
The Bogan was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, created in 1859 and named after the Bogan River. It elected two members between 1880 and 1889 and three members between 1889 and 1894. It was abolished in 1894 and partly replaced by Cobar, Dubbo and Coonamble Coonamble is a town on the central-western plains of New South Wales, Australia. It lies on the Castlereagh Highway north-west of Gilgandra. At the 2016 census, Coonamble had a population of 2,750. It is the regional hub for wheat growing and .... Members Election results Notes References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1859 Constituencies disestablished in 1894 1859 establishments in Australia 1894 disestablishments in Australia {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Rotton
Henry Rotton (1814 – 11 October 1881) was an English-born Australian politician. Rotton was born at Frome Selwood in Somerset to solicitor Gilbert Rotton and Mary Caroline Humphries. After failing to enter the Royal Navy, he entered the merchant navy as a midshipman and later officer. In 1836 he arrived at Kangaroo Island, whence he journeyed to Sydney. In 1839 he married Lorn Jane Macpherson, with whom he had two children; a second marriage on 18 March 1844 to Ann Ford produced a further eleven children. He ran an inn near Rydal in 1839 and ran mail coaches between Bathurst and Orange from 1849. From 1853 he was a horse and cattle breeder near Kelso. In 1858 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Western Boroughs. He transferred to Hartley in 1859, representing that seat until his defeat in 1864. Rotton died at Mynora near Moruya Moruya is a town located on the far south coast of New South Wales, Australia, situated on the Moruya River. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clements (politician)
John Findlater Clements (1819 – 2 September 1884) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Balbriggan to Royal Navy lieutenant Hanbury Clements and Margaret Ingham. He migrated to New South Wales around 1833 and became a pastoralist, with over 160,000 acres in the Lachlan River area. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ... for Bathurst, but he was defeated in 1860. On 8 March 1865 he married Charlotte Palmer, with whom he had four children. Clements died at Bathurst in 1884. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Clements, John 1819 births 1884 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Bathurst
An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has operated since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the executive and judiciary, and for regional and local government. This process is also used in many other private and business organisations, from clubs to voluntary associations and corporations. The global use of elections as a tool for selecting representatives in modern representative democracies is in contrast with the practice in the democratic archetype, ancient Athens, where the elections were considered an oligarchic institution and most political offices were filled using sortition, also known as allotment, by which officeholders were chosen by lot. Electoral reform describes the process of introducing fair electoral systems where they are n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Adams Brodribb
William Adams Brodribb (27 May 1809 – 31 May 1886) was an Australian pastoralist and politician. He was born in London on 27 May 1809. His father, also William Adams Brodribb, was an attorney who was convicted of administering unlawful oaths in 1816 and transported for seven years. He arrived at Sydney in in March 1817, and was sent to Hobart. In February 1818 his wife and children arrived at Hobart in ''Duke of Wellington''. They settled on a farm near New Norfolk and three more sons were born. In April 1835 William junior moved to New South Wales and became a partner in a cattle station. In 1836 he overlanded the second draft of cattle to Melbourne. On returning from Port Phillip Brodribb relocated to what later became the site of Gundagai. In August Brodribb petitioned for a punt over the Murrumbidgee near his Gundagai hut and in January 1838 Deputy Surveyor General Samuel Perry reported that 'a better site could not have been chosen for a Town of the first class' in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Morris
Augustus Morris ( – 29 August 1895) was a pastoralist and politician in New South Wales, Australia. He was born in Van Diemen's Land around 1820 to ex-convict and farmer Augustus Morris and Constantia Hibbins. He was educated at Hobart and helped explore Port Phillip. He married Sarah Merciana Charlotte Bailey, with whom he had four sons. He later farmed sheep in New South Wales, and from 1851 to 1856 served in the New South Wales Legislative Council as the member for Pastoral Districts of Liverpool Plains & Gwydir. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Balranald, serving until his defeat in 1864. He was bankrupted in 1866 and discharged the following year, becoming an agent for a number of United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Balranald
Balranald was an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales established from part of Electoral district of Lachlan and Lower Darling, Lachlan and Lower Darling in 1859 and named after and including Balranald, New South Wales, Balranald. From 1880 to 1894, it elected two members. In 1894, it was abolished and partly replaced by Electoral district of Deniliquin, Deniliquin and Electoral district of Hay, Hay. Members for Balranald Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales, Balranald Constituencies established in 1859, Balranald 1859 establishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 1894, Balranald 1894 disestablishments in Australia {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Driver
Richard Driver (junior) (16 September 1829 – 8 July 1880) was a Sydney solicitor, politician and cricket administrator. Driver was born in Cabramatta, New South Wales, son of Richard Driver, hotel-keeper, and his wife Elizabeth, née Powell. In 1859, he became a solicitor for the Sydney City Council and also carried out a practice in the Sydney police court. Driver unsuccessfully contested three seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1858 and was defeated again for East Sydney in 1859, but won West Macquarie in 1860 and held it to 1869. He was the member for Carcoar from 1869 to 1872 and Windsor from 1872 to his death in 1880. He generally supported Henry Parkes, but turned down an offer of to be made minister of mines in 1872. He became Secretary for Lands in Parkes' 1877 government and as a cricket lover he provided £700 for improvements to the Sydney Cricket Ground and vested the ground in trustees in 1879, including himself as the representative of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terence Aubrey Murray
Sir Terence Aubrey Murray (10 May 1810 – 22 June 1873) was an Irish-Australian pastoralist, parliamentarian and knight of the realm. He had the double distinction of being, at separate times, both the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the President of the New South Wales Legislative Council. From 1837 to 1859 he owned the Yarralumla estate, which now serves as the official Canberra residence of the Governor-General of Australia. Early years and background Murray was born in Limerick, Ireland, into a patriotic and politically aware Roman Catholic family. His mother, Ellen Murray (née Fitzgerald), died at Saint-Omer in France in 1812, when Terence was still a child. His father, also named Terence, served as a paymaster in the British Army, enjoying the commissioned rank of captain. Young Terence had two older siblings, Dr James Fitzgerald Murray (who trained as a surgeon), and poet, Anna Maria Murray (who married farmer and grazier George Bunn, of Braid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
