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William Henry Bean
William Henry Bean (c. 1843 – date of death unknown) was a prominent South Australian businessman and parliamentarian. He was elected to the Sixth Parliament (paired with Henry Strangways) for the District of West Torrens of the South Australian House of Assembly, on 28 March 1870, until 23 November 1871, losing his seat after the dissolution of 1871. but was re-elected, with William James Magarey, to the Ninth Parliament (1878–1881) from 2 April 1878 to 19 March 1881, and re-elected, with Frederick Estcourt Bucknall, to the Tenth Parliament from 8 April 1881 to 19 March 1884. His brother George had held the seat previously and lost it under controversial circumstances. This is one of very few cases in Australia of a pair of brothers being parliamentarians).Brothers in Parliament ''The Advertiser'' 20 April 1929 p.15 accessed 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australia
South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and second smallest state by population. It has a total of 1.8 million people. Its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second-largest centre, has a population of 33,233. South Australia shares borders with all of the other mainland states, as well as the Northern Territory; it is bordered to the west by Western Australia, to the north by the Northern Territory, to the north-east by Queensland, to the east by New South Wales, to the south-east by Victoria, and to the south by the Great Australian Bight.M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1870–1871
Member may refer to: * Military jury, referred to as "Members" in military jargon * Element (mathematics), an object that belongs to a mathematical set * In object-oriented programming, a member of a class ** Field (computer science), entries in a database ** Member variable, a variable that is associated with a specific object * Limb (anatomy), an appendage of the human or animal body ** Euphemism for penis * Structural component of a truss, connected by nodes * User (computing), a person making use of a computing service, especially on the Internet * Member (geology), a component of a geological formation * Member of parliament * The Members, a British punk rock band * Meronymy, a semantic relationship in linguistics * Church membership, belonging to a local Christian congregation, a Christian denomination and the universal Church * Member, a participant in a club or learned society A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Strangways
Henry Bull Templar Strangways (14 November 1832 – 10 February 1920) was an Australian politician and Premier of South Australia. Strangways was the eldest son of Henry Bull Strangways of Shapwick, Somerset, England. As a boy, he visited South Australia, where his uncle Thomas Bewes Strangways was a pioneer. Returning to England he entered the Middle Temple in November 1851 and was called to the bar in June 1856. He went to Adelaide early in the following year, was elected to the South Australian House of Assembly for Encounter Bay in January 1858, and became Attorney-General of South Australia in the First Reynolds Ministry from May 1860 to May 1861. The ministry was then reconstructed and Strangways became Commissioner of Crown Lands and Immigration until October 1861. He held the same position in the Waterhouse ministry from October 1861 to July 1863, in the Dutton ministry from March to September 1865, and in the third Ayers ministry from September to October 1865. Str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Australian House Of Assembly
The House of Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital, Adelaide. Overview The House of Assembly was created in 1857, when South Australia attained self-government. The development of an elected legislature — although only men could vote — marked a significant change from the prior system, where legislative power was in the hands of the Governor and the Legislative Council, which was appointed by the Governor. In 1895, the House of Assembly granted women the right to vote and stand for election to the legislature. South Australia was the second place in the world to do so after New Zealand in 1893, and the first to allow women to stand for election. (The first woman candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt.) From 1857 to 1933, the House of Assembly was elected from multi-member dist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William James Magarey
William James Magarey (1840 – 15 December 1920) was a flour miller and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. History William was a son of Thomas Magarey's brother, James Magarey ( – 11 August 1859). James Magarey ran Gannawarra Station on Gunbower Creek (a tributary of the River Murray), later owned a flour mill in Hindmarsh, South Australia, then moved to "Laurel Bank Villa", Geelong, Victoria and drowned following the wreck of . William worked on his father's station and moved to Geelong with him. He took over the flour mill at Hindmarsh and purchased one at Port Pirie. He held the House of Assembly seat of West Torrens from April 1878 to March 1881. Other activities He was on the boards of the Savings Bank, National Mutual Life Association, and the South Australian Woollen Company. He was also chairman for some years of the Executor and Trustee Agency Company and British Broken Hill Proprietary. He was an enthusiastic member of South Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1878–1881
This is a list of members of the ninth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 1878 until April 1881. The members were elected at the 1878 election in May 1878. : Light MHA Frank Skeffington Carroll resigned on 31 May 1878. David Moody won the resulting by-election on 12 June. : Noarlunga MHA John Colton resigned on 29 August 1878. Thomas Atkinson won the resulting by-election on 14 September. : Encounter Bay MHA James Boucaut resigned on 25 September 1878. William West-Erskine won the resulting by-election on 10 October. : North Adelaide MHA Neville Blyth resigned on 2 December 1878. Caleb Peacock won the resulting by-election on 16 December. : Noarlunga MHA John Carr resigned on 16 December 1879. John Colton won the resulting by-election on 6 January 1880. : Gumeracha MHA Ebenezer Ward resigned on 5 April 1880. John Rounsevell won the resulting by-election on 24 April. : Port Adelaide MHA William Quin resigned on 17 July 1880. John Hart, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Estcourt Bucknall
Frederick Estcourt Bucknall (6 July 1835 – 4 June 1896) was an English-born publican, brewer and politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. Life Bucknall was a member of the Estcourts of Estcourt, an influential old family, in the counties of Gloucester and Wiltshire, but born in London, where his father, William Bucknall of Crutched Friars, was Commodore of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. Shortly after he arrived in South Australia around 1860 via Melbourne, the original Torrens Dam was nearly completed, and he built a fleet of fine pleasure craft which he placed on the lake for hire, but the dam failed and was washed away, putting paid to his enterprise. He built a boatshed on the Port River to the south-east of where the Jervois Street bridge was later built, and created a great deal of interest in sculling on the Port River. He gained approval as a Licensed Victualler and built the South Australian Club Hotel in St Vincent Street, Port Adelaide ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly, 1881–1884
This is a list of members of the tenth parliament of the South Australian House of Assembly, which sat from 1881 until March 1884. The members were elected at the 1881 state election in April 1881. : East Adelaide MHA George Fowler resigned on 7 June 1881. Thomas Johnson won the resulting by-election on 17 June. : Yatala MHA David Murray was unseated on 28 June 1881. He contested and won the resulting by-election, but resigned on 18 August. Josiah Howell Bagster won the resulting by-election on 6 September. : Onkaparinga MHA Friedrich Krichauff resigned on 22 May 1882. Rowland Rees won the resulting by-election on 15 June. : Flinders MHA Ebenezer Cooke resigned on 24 October 1882. Patrick Boyce Coglin won the resulting by-election on 1 December. : Sturt MHA William Townsend died on 25 October 1882. Thomas King was elected unopposed on 13 November. : Victoria MHA George Charles Hawker resigned on 11 May 1883. William Whinham William Whinham (1842–1925) was an Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bean (politician)
George Thomas Bean (c. 1845 – 25 February 1912) (generally known as "G. T. Bean") was a prominent South Australian entrepreneur and parliamentarian. He was educated at J. L. Young's Adelaide Educational Institution, and his business ventures included leather, shipping, and mining in South and Western Australia, and sugar in the Northern Territory of Australia, often in conjunction with one or both of his brothers William and Arthur Bean. He was elected, with Henry Strangways, to the Fifth Parliament (1868–1870) for the District of West Torrens of the South Australian House of Assembly, on 21 April 1868, the first SA-colony-born person to achieve this. On 19 November 1869 with J. A. Bean he left for London on business, but his application for leave of absence was refused by Parliament, despite a petition from his constituents. His seat was declared vacant on 29 January 1870, due to his "failure to attend". While away he prospected for diamonds in Cape Town, with some s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bean Brothers
Bean Brothers was a company based in Adelaide, South Australia involved in tanning, leathergoods and shipping ventures in the latter half of the 19th century. Bean Brothers Ltd was set up by the principals to consolidate their assets and develop as wool and produce brokers. They also founded the Adelaide and Port Darwin Sugar Company to develop a sugar plantation in the Northern Territory of Australia. Both ventures failed amid acrimony, recrimination and lawsuits. The firm of Bean Brothers were leather, wool and produce brokers. In 1882 its principals floated a company Bean Brothers Limited to take over their assets. Leather goods Robert Laundy Ingham and George Bean Snr. established the Thebarton Tannery in competition with William Peacock. In 1839 the partnership was dissolved and Bean Snr. took over the business. In 1840 Bean Snr. opened a shop in Hindley Street previously held by a Mr Crabb, and a year later moved to premises vacated by the firm of Grieve & Campbell on Ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manangle Parish, Cumberland
Manangle Parish, Cumberland (also spelled Menangle) is one of the 57 parishes of Cumberland County, New South Wales, a cadastral unit for use on land titles. Its eastern boundary is the Georges River, and western boundary the Nepean River. It includes the southern Sydney suburbs of Menangle Park (including its railway station), Gilead, Rosemeadow and part of Glen Alpine Glean Alpine may mean: * Glen Alpine, New South Wales, Australia * Glen Alpine, North Carolina, United States * Glen Alpine, Nova Scotia, Canada * Glen Alpine, Toowoomba Glen Alpine is a heritage-listed villa at 32–36 East Street, Redwood, .... Major roads in the area include the South Western Freeway, Menangle Road and Appin Road. References * {{NSW GNR, id=anYbZxsEMn, title=Manangle Parish, accessdate= Parish of Manangle, County of CumberlandNew South Wales Parish maps preservation project Parishes of Cumberland County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Menangle Park, New South Wales
Menangle Park is a suburb in Sydney the state of New South Wales, Australia. Menangle Park is located 56 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City of Campbelltown (New South Wales), City of Campbelltown. Menangle Park is a largely rural area and is part of the Macarthur, New South Wales, Macarthur region. Demographics According to the 2016 census, Menangle Park had a population of 257 people, who are mostly Australian born. The area has a particularly high number of people from the Anglican church (41%), over double the proportion of Anglicans nationwide (17%). The median income of $443 per week is lower than the national average ($577). History Menangle Park was originally home to the Tharawal people, and it was they who gave the name, transcribed as ''Manangle'' or ''Manhangle'', to a small lagoon on the west bank of the Nepean River. The river was important to the Tharawal both for i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
