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William Rogers (Australian Politician)
William Rogers (22 July 1818 – 26 August 1903) was a politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. History William Rogers, a builder and stonemason, emigrated from Cornwall to South Australia on the ''Platina'', arriving in July 1839. He settled in the Sandergrove district, and was responsible for a large number of constructions in the area, including John Dunn's flour mill at Mount Barker. His brother Joseph also emigrated, joining him in 1847. He acquired some property and began breeding sheep. When William Bowman left the Finniss district around 1878, Rogers purchased his property "View Bank" and later had a share in Portee station on the River Murray near Blanchetown and another at Swan Reach. He made his elder son manager (later owner) of Finniss, and gave Portee and Swan Reach stations to younger son Edwin. They sustained heavy losses in the 1890s drought, but survived and had largely recovered financially at the time of his death. He was a member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rogers (1818-1903)
William Rogers may refer to: Politics * William Rogers (Australian politician) (1818–1903), builder and pastoralist in colonial South Australia * William Rogers (MP) (1498–1553), Member of Parliament for Norwich * William Rogers (Wisconsin politician) (1838–1911), Wisconsin state assemblyman and judge * William Charles Rogers (1847–1917), Cherokee leader * William D. Rogers (1927–2007), U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs * William Findlay Rogers (1820–1899), congressman from New York, 1883–1884 * William H. Rogers (mayor) (1850–1935), mayor of Madison, Wisconsin * William J. Rogers (1930–2005), Wisconsin state assemblyman * William Nathaniel Rogers (1892–1945), congressman from New Hampshire, 1923–1924 and 1931–1936 * William P. Rogers (1913–2001), U.S. Attorney General under Dwight Eisenhower and Secretary of State under Richard Nixon * Will Rogers (Maine politician) (born 1938), realtor and politician in Maine * Will Rogers ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Fydell Lindsay
Arthur Fydell Lindsay (c. 1816 – 10 May 1895) was a politician in the early days of the colony of South Australia. History Lindsay was born in Boston, Lincolnshire, and emigrated to South Australia on arriving in December 1836 in company with Governor Hindmarsh, James Hurtle Fisher (the Resident Commissioner), Osmond Gilles (Treasurer), and the Rev. C. B. Howard (Colonial Chaplain), and was present at the proclamation of the province under the historic gum tree at Glenelg. Lindsay was trained as a surveyor and worked in that profession for a number of years, notably laying out the town of Hindmarsh for the Governor (who with his wife personally owned the land) in a partnership with the Governor's son John as "Lindsay & Hindmarsh". In July 1839 they transferred ownership of the land to A. F. Lindsay and George Milner Stephen. then took up a farm in the Encounter Bay district. Lindsay served as the first member of the House of Assembly for the single-person electorate of Enco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1903 Deaths
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1818 Births
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Australian Sheep Breeders
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Australian Builders
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Australian Pastoralists
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Members Of The South Australian House Of Assembly
This is a list of state elections in South Australia for the bicameral Parliament of South Australia, consisting of the House of Assembly ( lower house) and the Legislative Council (upper house). See also * List of South Australian House of Assembly by-elections * List of South Australian Legislative Council appointments * List of South Australian Legislative Council by-elections * Electoral districts of South Australia * Timeline of Australian elections External linksLower House results 1890-1965 Parliament of SA, www.parliament.sa.gov.au {{South Australian elections [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parkside, South Australia
Parkside is an inner southern Suburbs and localities (Australia), suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. It is located in the City of Unley. History The suburb was once home to the mental health campus of the Royal Adelaide Hospital. Known as 'The Parkside Asylum', it was the primary mental health facility in the state, and occupied approximately one-third of the suburb's area. Parkside Post Office opened on 10 December 1859 and was renamed Eastwood, South Australia, Eastwood in 1967. Geography Parkside lies on the southern boundary of the Adelaide Park Lands, southern park lands. It is bounded, among others, by Glen Osmond, Greenhill, Unley and Fullarton roads. Demographics The 2006 Census by the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 4,634 persons in Parkside on census night. Of these, 46.9% were male and 53.1% were female. The majority of residents (72.3%) are of Australian birth, with other common census responses being England (5.2%), Greece (2.9%) and Italy (2.8%). Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hannah Gordon
Sir John Hannah Gordon KC (26 July 1850 – 23 December 1923) was a Scottish-Australian politician and judge. He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1888 to 1892 and from 1893 to 1903. He was a minister under four Premiers: John Cockburn, Frederick Holder, Charles Kingston and John Jenkins, variously as Minister for Education, Chief Secretary, Attorney-General, and Minister Controlling the Northern Territory. He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1903. Early life Gordon was born at Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, Scotland, the eldest son of the Rev. James Gordon, preacher of the Free Church, and his wife Margaret, ''née'' Leonard. The family emigrated to South Australia in 1859 where Rev. Gordon took charge of the Presbyterian church at Mount Barker, and was afterwards stationed at Gawler. Gordon's younger brother, William Beattie Gordon, who was born in Gawler, became a member of parliament in Western Australia. Gordon was educated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Hingston Lake
George Hingston Lake (10 December 1847 – 31 October 1900) was a politician in the early days of colonial South Australia. History George was born in London to Henry Lake and his wife Ann née Trehane. arrived in South Australia with his parents and brother James (1840–1876) in 1853. He worked with his father and brother on a sheep station, near the Barrier Range for five years, then spent three years studying law, articled to the brother James. He served as accountant for brother James and Charles John Reynolds, later mayor of Port Adelaide, who owned, as Lake & Reynolds, a timber merchant's business in Port Adelaide from 1871 to 1877. He worked for Clare lawyer T. R. Bright, managing his office in the rapidly developing town of Jamestown, where he remained for many years, and when the Corporate Town of Jamestown was proclaimed in 1878, Lake served as their first town clerk, with (later Sir) John Cockburn as mayor. He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1883, the year h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Edward Bright
Hon. Henry Edward Bright (30 June 1819 – 18 February 1904) was a member of the South Australian Colonial Parliament. A son, Henry Edward Bright jr. (1843–1917), was a mayor of Gawler, South Australia. Early life Bright was born in London on 30 June 1819, the son of Edward Bright and Mary Ann. He, his wife Jane Prudence (née King) and son Henry Edward Bright jr. arrived in Adelaide in April 1850. Political career Bright was a member for Stanley in the South Australian House of Assembly from March 1865 to February 1875, and for Wooroora from February 1875 to April 1884. From July 1873 to June 1875, he was Commissioner of Public Works in the Government of the Sir Arthur Blyth, and in May 1885 was elected to the Legislative Council of South Australia, of which he was a member until May 1891. Family Bright married Jane Prudence King (1816 – 23 Feb 1904) at St. George's in Hanover Square, London on 15 March 1841. *Their son Henry Edward Bright jr. (16 March 1843 – 12 Nove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
