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William John Foster
William John Foster (13 January 1831 – 16 August 1909) was a politician and Supreme Court judge in colonial New South Wales, Attorney General from 1877 to 1878. Foster was born in Rathescar, County Louth, Ireland, the son of Rev. William Henry Foster of Loughgilly, County Armagh, and his wife Catherine, Hamilton. Foster was educated at Cheltenham College, and at Trinity College Dublin, where he took the Vice-Chancellor's prize for Greek in 1850, also the composition prize in the same year, as well as honours in classics and mathematics. He left the university in 1851. Foster arrived in Sydney in August 1854, and for the first three years of his residence in New South Wales devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He then studied law, and was called to the colonial bar in 1858, when he entered on the practice of his profession. In 1859 he published a work on the District Courts Act, which was the standard work on the subject until 1870, when a revised edition was issued. In ...
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William John Foster, C1894
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Joseph Innes
Sir Joseph George Long Innes (16 October 1834 – 28 October 1896), was a judge and politician in colonial Australia, and Attorney General of New South Wales from 1873 to 1875. Innes was born in Sydney, New South Wales the eldest son of Major Joseph Long Innes (superintendent of police) and his wife Elizabeth Anne, the daughter of Thomas Reibey and Mary Reibey. Innes was educated at William Timothy Cape's school and at the King's School, Parramatta. He then went to England, and entered as a student at Lincoln's Inn in November 1856; and, after winning a certificate of honour in May 1859, he was called to the bar in November of the same year. Having returned to Australia, Innes was admitted to the New South Wales bar in 1862, and practised till 1865, when he was appointed a district judge in Queensland. This position he resigned in 1869, and returned to practise his profession in Sydney. He also went into politics, and was returned to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for ...
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Attorneys General Of The Colony Of New South Wales
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Judges Of The Supreme Court Of New South Wales
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1909 Deaths
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1831 Births
Events January–March * January 1 – William Lloyd Garrison begins publishing '' The Liberator'', an anti-slavery newspaper, in Boston, Massachusetts. * January 10 – Japanese department store, Takashimaya in Kyoto established. * February–March – Revolts in Modena, Parma and the Papal States are put down by Austrian troops. * February 2 – Pope Gregory XVI succeeds Pope Pius VIII, as the 254th pope. * February 5 – Dutch naval lieutenant Jan van Speyk blows up his own gunboat in Antwerp rather than strike his colours on the demand of supporters of the Belgian Revolution. * February 7 – The Belgian Constitution of 1831 is approved by the National Congress. *February 8 - Aimé Bonpland leaves Paraguay. * February 14 – Battle of Debre Abbay: Ras Marye of Yejju marches into Tigray, and defeats and kills the warlord Sabagadis. * February 25 – Battle of Olszynka Grochowska (Grochów): Polish rebel forces divide a Ru ...
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Nicholas Hawken
Nicholas Hawken (1 January 1836 – 13 July 1908) was an English-born Australian politician. Hawken was born at St Austell in Cornwall to William Hawken and Phillipa Harding. He was educated locally and migrated to New South Wales in 1854, working in the Shoalhaven area. In 1855 he settled in Sydney, going into business as a produce merchant. On 24 July 1861 he married Mary Jane Vance. They had thirteen children, the eleventh of whom was the engineer Roger Hawken (1878–1947). A long-serving Darlington alderman, Hawken was mayor from 1881 to 1883. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Newtown. He served until his defeat in 1891. In 1899 Hawken was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council, where he served until his death and was reportedly a "ready and forcible debater". For example, in 1890 he had made a spirited defence in Parliament of the new and controversial sculptures on Sydney's General Post Offi ...
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James Francis Smith (politician)
James Francis Smith (184427 October 1908) was an Australian politician. He was born in Wellington to pastoralist William Smith and Mary Ann Williamson. He attended Christ Church School in Sydney and worked as a solicitor's clerk and then cattle dealer before establishing a butchery business around 1868. On 25 May 1868 he married Clara Linda Potter Leslie; they would have thirteen children. Smith was a Newtown alderman from 1871 to 1908, serving four separate terms as mayor. In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Newtown. With the emergence of the first party system in the next few years, Smith gravitated to the Protectionist Party. He lost his seat in 1887 and continued to regularly contest elections until he was successful at winning the seat of Newtown-Camperdown in 1901. In 1904 he was re-elected as a Progressive in Camperdown, but he was defeated as an independent Independent or Independents may refer to: Arts, entertain ...
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Frederick Gibbes
Frederick Jamison Gibbes (31 October 183917 January 1888) was an Australian politician. He was born at Regentville near Penrith to William Gibbes and Harriet Eliza Jamison. His middle name was sometimes spelt Jamieson. He attended a variety of schools before studying at the University of Sydney, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in 1860. He then worked for the lands office until 1865, when he began studying for the bar. He was never successful in this, and instead entered business. On 18 April 1883 he married Mary Jane Gill, with whom he had two children. A Newtown alderman from 1882 to 1886, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newtown in 1882. When political parties emerged at the 1887 election, he joined the Free Trade Party and held the seat until his death the following year. He did not hold ministerial or parliamentary office. His paternal grandfather, John George Nathaniel Gibbes, had been a significant figure in the first half of the 19t ...
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Henry Copeland (New South Wales Politician)
Henry Copeland, (6 June 1839 – 22 June 1904) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Copeland was born in Hull, Yorkshire, England. Aged 18 years, he arrived in Williamstown, Victoria Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 census. ... and spent around 15 years on the goldfields as a digger, farmer and contractor. In 1863 he visited England where he married Hannah Beecroft on 20 April. He would later marry her sister Mary and had 4 sons and 7 daughters from both marriages. He moved to New South Wales in 1872. Copeland was elected unopposed to the New South Wales Mining Board in 1874. He entered the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and represented six different seats between 1877 and 1900. He was briefly Secretary for Public Works in the Stuart ministry ...
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Joseph Mitchell (Australian Politician)
Joseph Earl Cherry Mitchell (22 July 1840 – 22 October 1897) was an English-born Australian politician and businessman. He was born in Cheshire to shipbuilder Richard Mitchell and Margaret Cherry. He was his father's apprentice when they arrived in New South Wales in 1859. He then established himself in Newtown as a coal merchant, subsequently becoming a successful figure in the coal industry. In 1866 he married Charlotte Harrison at Bowral; they had eight children. He was a Methodist. Mitchell was elected four times to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. Business career Mitchell began as a coal merchant and did much to popularise coal from the Western coalfields around Lithgow. He later acquired interests in collieries and shipping, including a major interest in both the South Bulli Mine and the Bellambi Colliery. From around 1890 up to his death in 1897, Mitchell led efforts to form a syndicate of English capitalists, to set up an iron and steel works, and ...
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Stephen Campbell Brown
Stephen Campbell Brown (21 October 1829 – 16 October 1882) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to merchant John Brown and Frances Helen Watson. He was a solicitor's clerk, qualifying as a solicitor in 1852. In 1860 he married Emma Booth Jones; a second marriage on 20 August 1870 was to Jane Garrett. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newtown, holding the seat without any serious challenges until 1881. On 14 November 1881 he accepted as Postmaster-General A Postmaster General, in Anglosphere countries, is the chief executive officer of the postal service of that country, a Ministry (government department), ministerial office responsible for overseeing all other postmasters. The practice of having ... in the third Parkes ministry and the following day resigned from the assembly to be appointed to the Legislative Council. He became embroiled in a dispute with the Sydney newspapers about how much they were charged for ...
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