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Simon Hickey (politician)
Simon Hickey (6 June 1878 – 18 May 1958) was an Australian politician. He was born at Botobolar near Mudgee to agricultural labourer Patrick Hickey, an Irish-American, and Mary, ''née'' Swift. His family moved to Menah in 1882 and to Auburn in 1890. Hickey received a primary education but at the age of thirteen left school to work as a drayman's assistant, eventually being apprenticed to a Mudgee saddler in 1893. He worked in Sydney for the saddler's firm, which failed. In 1911 he married Hilda Ellen Dacey, daughter of Labor MP John Dacey. In 1912 he entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Alexandria on the death of his father-in-law; he moved to the multi-member seat of Botany in 1920. The 1920 election was evenly divided with Labor only able to govern due to Nationalist Daniel Levy controversially accepting re-election as speaker. Levy resigned as speaker and on 13 December 1921 Hickey was elected Speaker. This left the Dooley Labor G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Simon may refer to: People * Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon * Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon * Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus authority ''Simon'' * Tribe of Simeon, one of the twelve tribes of Israel Places * Şimon ( hu, links=no, Simon), a village in Bran Commune, Braşov County, Romania * Șimon, a right tributary of the river Turcu in Romania Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Simon'' (1980 film), starring Alan Arkin * ''Simon'' (2004 film), Dutch drama directed by Eddy Terstall Games * ''Simon'' (game), a popular computer game * Simon Says, children's game Literature * ''Simon'' (Sutcliff novel), a children's historical novel written by Rosemary Sutcliff * Simon (Sand novel), an 1835 novel by George Sand * ''Simon Necronomicon'' (1977), a purported grimoire written by an unknown author, with an introduction by a man identified only as "Simon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Hickey (1878-1958) C1927
Simon Hickey (born 12 January 1994) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays for Crusaders (rugby union) in the Super Rugby. He has represented Auckland Rugby Football Union, Auckland in the National Provincial Championship (2006–present), National Provincial Championship, playing as a first five-eighth. He is a former New Zealand Schools Rugby Team, New Zealand Schools representative and was captain of both the King's College, Auckland, King's College 1st XV and its 1st XI cricket team. He made his Auckland Rugby Football Union, Auckland debut after coming off the bench in a 59–16 win over Manawatu Rugby Union, Manawatu at Eden Park, contributing two conversions. Simon Hickey had signed for the Hurricanes (rugby union) for the 2021 season, however ruptured his ACL during pre season ending his season prematurely. This led to him being signed by the Crusaders (rugby union) for 2022. References External links * http://www.aucklandrugby.co.nz/players/0-Simon-Hick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Following are lists of members of 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 ...: * 1856–1858 * 1858–1859 * 1859–1860 * 1860–1864 * 1864–1869 * 1869–1872 * 1872–1874 * 1874–1877 * 1877–1880 * 1880–1882 * 1882–1885 * 1885–1887 * 1887–1889 * 1889–1891 * 1891–1894 * 1894–1895 * 1895–1898 * 1898–1901 * 1901–1904 * 1904–1907 * 1907–1910 * 1910–1913 * 1913–1917 * 1917–1920 * 1920–1922 * 1922–1925 * 1925–1927 * 1927–1930 * 1930–1932 * 1932–1935 * 1935–1938 * 1938–1941 * 1941–1944 * 1944–1947 * 1947–1950 * 1950–1953 * 1953–1956 * 1956–1959 * 1959–1962 * 1962–1965 * 1965–1968 * 1968–1971 * 1971–1973 * 1973–1976 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speakers Of The New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** In poetry, the literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character; see Character (arts) Electronics * Loudspeaker, a device that produces sound ** Computer speakers, speakers sold for use with computers ** Speaker driver, the essential electromechanical element of the loudspeaker Arts, entertainment and media * Los Speakers (or "The Speakers"), a Colombian rock band from the 1960s * ''The Speaker'' (periodical), a weekly review published in London from 1890 to 1907 * ''The Speaker'' (TV series), a 2009 BBC television series * "Speaker" (song), by David Banner * "Speakers" (Sam Hunt song), 2014 * ''The Speaker'', the second book in Traci Chee's Sea of Ink and Gold trilo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1958 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third overland journey to the South Pole, the first to use powered vehicles. ** Sputnik 1 (launched on October 4, 1957) falls to Earth from its orbit, and burns up. * January 13 – Battle of Edchera: The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol. * January 27 – A Soviet-American executive agreement on cultural, educational and scientific exchanges, also known as the " Lacy–Zarubin Agreement", is signed in Washington, D.C. * January 31 – The first successful American satellite, Explorer 1, is launched into orbit. February * February 1 – Egypt and Syria unite, to form the United Arab Republic. * February 6 – Seven Manchester United footballers are among the 21 people killed in the Munich air disaster in West G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1878 Births
Events January–March * January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire. * January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy. * January 17 – Battle of Philippopolis: Russian troops defeat the Turks. * January 23 – Benjamin Disraeli orders the British fleet to the Dardanelles. * January 24 – Russian revolutionary Vera Zasulich shoots at Fyodor Trepov, Governor of Saint Petersburg. * January 28 – ''The Yale News'' becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United States. * January 31 – Turkey agrees to an armistice at Adrianople. * February 2 – Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire. * February 7 – Pope Pius IX dies, after a 31½ year reign (the longest definitely confirmed). * February 8 – The British fleet enters Turkish waters, and anchors off Istanbul; Russia threatens to occupy Istanbul, but does not carry out the threat. * Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Ratcliffe
Wilfred Joseph "Bill" Ratcliffe (30 May 1880 – 25 March 1935) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1922 until 1932, representing the districts of Botany (1922–1927), Alexandria (1927–1930) and Barwon (1930–1932). He was Secretary of Public Works and Minister for Railways for four months in 1927, during the last months of the first Lang government. Ratcliffe was born at Pyrmont, and was a tram driver before entering politics as a local alderman. He was an unsuccessful Labor candidate at the 1920 state election, when he was placed fifth and last on the Labor ticket for multi-member Botany. He again contested Botany in 1922 and was again placed fifth on the Labor list, but this time, campaigned for voters to ignore the official ticket and give him their first preference. The tactic was successful, and he was elected at the expense of fellow Labor MLA Simon Hickey; however, it earned him significant enm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McKell
Sir William John McKell (26 September 1891 – 11 January 1985) was an Australian politician who served as the 12th Governor-General of Australia, in office from 1947 to 1953. He had previously been Premier of New South Wales from 1941 to 1947, as leader of the Labor Party. McKell was born in the small town of Pambula, New South Wales, but grew up in Sydney. He left school at thirteen, training as a boilermaker at Mort's Dock. McKell soon became involved with the union movement, and after a brief period on the railways began working full-time as a union secretary. He sided with the anti-conscriptionists during the Labor Party split of 1916, and at the 1917 state election defeated James McGowen, a former Labor premier who had been expelled from the party. In 1920, aged 29, McKell was Minister of Justice under John Storey. He also served as a minister under John Dooley and Jack Lang. During the Labor Party's internal tensions in the 1930s, McKell came to be seen as a co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lee (Australian Politician)
John Robert Lee (19 October 1885 – 2 November 1957) was an Australian politician. Life, education and career Born at Hedley Hill, Lanchester, Durham, to coalminer James Lee and Jessie Watson, he was educated at public schools in Leadgate and Durham before attending Cliff College in Sheffield. He worked as a water works engineer for ten years and became a Methodist minister before coming to Australia in 1910, preaching at Yanco and Gilgandra. From 1915 to 1918 he served as a lieutenant with the 21st Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force. On 28 February 1920 he married Gladys Irene Dickinson. In 1920 Lee was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Nationalist member for Botany; following the abolition of proportional representation in 1927 he was elected for Drummoyne. He was Nationalist Whip from 1922 to 1927 and Minister for Justice from 1927 to 1930; in 1931 he joined the United Australia Party. From 1934 to 1937 he was also an alderman at Dru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Burke (Australian Politician)
Francis Michael Burke (27 March 1876 – 17 August 1949) was an Australian politician. Born at Tamworth to police officer Michael Burke (who would serve in the New South Wales Parliament from 1885 to 1887) and Catherine Agnes, ''née'' Leahy, he attended Crown Street Public School. After leaving school he held a variety of jobs including storeman, hotel manager and assistant on the staff of the ''Evening News''. In 1901 he married Ada May Frazer, with whom he had five children. He worked on the tramways until he was dismissed after involvement in a union-led 1908 strike; he formed a small business and from 1914 to 1918 worked as an inspector for the New South Wales Commodities Commission and the Commonwealth Price Commission. He also worked as a staff member for Clive Evatt, and was president of the Newtown branch of the Labor Party. As president of the Anti-Conscription Council, Burke was ardently opposed to conscription and in 1917 was elected to the New South Wales Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Mutch
Thomas Davies Mutch (17 October 1885 – 4 June 1958) was an Australian politician. Early life Born in London to busdriver William Murdoch Mutch and Sarah Davies, he arrived in New South Wales in 1887 and was educated at Double Bay Public School. He was subsequently a shearer for four years and joined the Australian Workers' Union, becoming a staff worker in 1903 and helping to found the Australian Writers and Artists Union in 1910. On 23 September 1912 he married Edith Marjorie Hasenham; he remarried on 26 March 1928 Dorothy Anette Joyce at Melbourne, with whom he had two children. From 1915 to 1916 he was New South Wales president and federal vice-president of the Australian Journalists' Association, and was convicted of incitement after the 1917 general strike. Politics He was an alderman at Mascot from 1923 to 1930 and Randwick from 1931 to 1937. Having been a member of the Australian Labor Party's central executive from 1913 to 1917, he was elected to the New South W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Hickey
Sir Justin Hickey (5 April 1920 – 21 August 2005) was an Australian businessman, insurance executive and philanthropist. His father Simon Hickey (politician), Simon Hickey was a New South Wales Labor politician. Early life and education Hickey was born in a working class suburb of Sydney, where he attended De La Salle College. He reportedly left school at the age of 14 to work in a factory. Career He became wealthy by founding Accident Insurance Mutual, which became Australia's largest privately owned insurer. Lifestyle He and his wife, Lady Barbara Hickey, owned ''Lady Barbara'', a superyacht built in 1983, now known as ''Emerald Lady''. Their home was ''Bartinon'', a mansion standing on of land, once Queensland's most expensive home, located on Marseille Court in the exclusive Sorrento area of Australia's Gold Coast, Queensland, Gold Coast. It was built for about $8 million in the 1980s and sold in 1998. Hickey, a sailor and raconteur who staunchly supported the Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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