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William Zeal
Sir William Austin Zeal (5 December 1830 – 11 March 1912) was an Australian railway engineer and politician, Senator for Victoria in the Parliament of Australia. Zeal was born at Westbury, Wiltshire, England, the son of Thomas Zeal, a wine merchant, and Ann, ''nee'' Greenland. Educated privately, Zeal obtained his diploma as a surveyor and engineer, and came to Melbourne in 1852. Employed as an engineer in charge of railway construction by private contractors, Zeal was also employed in the government service for some years. In 1864, he was elected to Victorian Legislative Assembly as one of the three members for the seat of Castlemaine. During his campaign for election, Zeal strongly criticised the ability of the Victorian Railways engineer-in-chief, Thomas Higinbotham. In 1865, a select committee of the Victorian Parliament was set up to investigate Higinbotham's claim that Zeal had exaggerated the extent of his experience, and his implication that Zeal had acted corruptl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Order Of St Michael And St George
The Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George is a British order of chivalry founded on 28 April 1818 by George IV, George IV, Prince of Wales, while he was acting as prince regent for his father, George III, King George III. It is named in honour of two military saints, Michael (archangel), Michael and Saint George, George. The Order of St Michael and St George was originally awarded to those holding commands or high position in the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean territories acquired in the Napoleonic Wars, and was subsequently extended to holders of similar office or position in other territories of the British Empire. It is at present awarded to men and women who hold high office or who render extraordinary or important non-military service to the United Kingdom in a foreign country, and can also be conferred for important or loyal service in relation to foreign and Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth affairs. Description The Order includes three class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverina
The Riverina is an agricultural region of south-western New South Wales, Australia. The Riverina is distinguished from other Australian regions by the combination of flat plains, warm to hot climate and an ample supply of water for irrigation. This combination has allowed the Riverina to develop into one of the most productive and agriculturally diverse areas of Australia. Bordered on the south by the state of Victoria and on the east by the Great Dividing Range, the Riverina covers those areas of New South Wales in the Murray and Murrumbidgee drainage zones to their confluence in the west. Home to Aboriginal groups including the Wiradjuri people for over 40,000 years, the Riverina was colonised by Europeans in the mid-19th century as a pastoral region providing beef and wool to markets in Australia and beyond. In the 20th century, the development of major irrigation areas in the Murray and Murrumbidgee valleys has led to the introduction of crops such as rice and wine grap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Walker (Australian Politician)
Robert, Rob, Bob or Bobby Walker may refer to: Entertainment *Robert Walker (actor, born 1888) (1888–1954) American actor *Robert Walker (actor, born 1918) (1918–1951), actor in ''Strangers on a Train'' (1951) *Robert Walker (actor, born 1940) (1940–2019), actor in ''Ensign Pulver'' and ''Easy Rider'' * Robert Walker (animator) (1961–2015), Disney animator who directed ''Brother Bear'' *Robert Walker (painter) (1599–1658), English portrait painter *Robert Walker (musician) (1937–2017), American blues guitarist *Robert Walker (composer) (born 1946), English composer and broadcaster * Bob Walker (photographer) (1952–1992), American photographer and environmental activist *Rob Walker (poet) (born 1953), Australian poet Politics *Robert Walker (MP) (1597–1673), English merchant and Royalist during the English Civil War *Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe (born 1938), British law lord and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary * Robert F. Walker (1850–1930), Missouri At ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Farrell (Australian Politician)
James, Jim or Jimmy Farrell may refer to: * James Farrell (priest) (1803–1869), Irish cleric, first Dean of Adelaide * James A. Farrell (1863–1943), president of US Steel, 1911–1932 * James Augustine Farrell Jr. (1901–1966) his son, ship operator and owner * James T. Farrell (1904–1979), American socialist novelist * J. G. Farrell (James Gordon Farrell, 1935–1979), Anglo-Irish novelist * James Farrell (television producer), British television executive * Jimmy Farrell (James Leo Farrell, 1903–1979), Irish rugby player * Jimmy Farrell (footballer) (1919–2007), Australian rules footballer * J. P. Farrell (James Patrick Farrell, 1865–1921), Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament * James Farrell (police officer) (c. 1830–?), New Zealand policeman * W. James Farrell (born 1942), American businessman * James Esmond Farrell (1909–1968), New Zealand diplomat * Jimmy Farrell, fictional character in the play ''The Playboy of the Western World'' * Jim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Patterson (Australian Politician)
Sir James Brown Patterson (18 November 1833 – 30 October 1895), was an Australian politician who served as premier of Victoria from 1893 to 1894. Patterson was born in 1833 at Patterson Cottage, Alnwick, Northumberland, England to James Patterson, contractor, and Agnes, ''née'' Brown. Patterson emigrated to Victoria in 1852 to seek his fortune on the goldfields. After a few years as a digger and four as a farmer, he settled in Chewton, where he went into business as a butcher, later moving into real estate. He was Mayor of Chewton for four years before he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Castlemaine in 1870. A moderate conservative, Patterson served in the second third governments of the liberal leader Graham Berry, as commissioner for public works in August 1875 and as commissioner for public works and vice-president of the noard of land and works in 1877–1880. From July 1878 to March 1880 he was also Postmaster-General. After 1881 he went int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Baillie (Australian Politician) (1934–2018), New Zealand runner
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William Baillie may refer to: * W. D. H. Baillie (1827–1922), New Zealand politician * William Baillie, Lord Provand (died 1593), Scottish judge *William Baillie, Lord Polkemmet (1736–1816), Scottish judge *William Baillie (soldier) (died 1653), Scottish professional soldier *William Baillie (engraver) (1723–1810), Irish artist *William Baillie (artist) (1752/3–1799), British artist, active in Calcutta *William Baillie (East India Company officer) (died 1782), British lieutenant-colonel *Sir William Baillie, 2nd Baronet (1816–1890), Scottish MP for Linlithgowshire * William Baillie (cricketer) (1838–1895), English cricketer *Bill Baillie William David Baillie (28 May 1934 – 25 December 2018) was a New Zealand runner, who represented his country at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. There, he placed sixth in the 5000 m. He also competed at the 1954, 1958, 1962, and 1966 Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Bindon (Australian Politician)
Samuel Henry Bindon (1812 – 1 August 1879) was a judge and politician in colonial Victoria, Australia. Bindon was born in Limerick, Ireland and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated in 1835. He was called to the Irish bar, and after practising for some years in Dublin, moved to Victoria in 1855; in May of that year, he was admitted to the bar there. He sat in the Victorian Legislative Assembly as member for Castlemaine from 1864 to 1868, and was minister of justice in the Sir James McCulloch government from July 1866 to May 1868. In 1869 he was appointed a county court judge, and held that position, with the exception of a short interval in 1878, when he was one of the victims of the Black Wednesday dismissals, till his death on 1 August 1879 in St Kilda, Victoria, a suburb of Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Macadam
The Honorable Dr John Macadam (29 May 1827 – 2 September 1865), was a Scottish-Australian chemist, medical teacher, Australian politician and cabinet minister, and honorary secretary of the Burke and Wills expedition. The genus ''Macadamia'' (macadamia nut) was named after him in 1857. He died at sea, on a voyage from Australia to New Zealand, aged 38. Early life John Macadam was born at Northbank, Glasgow, Scotland, on 29 May 1827, the son of William Macadam (1783-1853) and Helen, née Stevenson (1803-1857). His father was a Glasgow businessman, who owned a spinning and textile printing works in Kilmarnock, and was a burgess and a bailie (magistrate) of Glasgow. His fellow industrialists and he in the craft had developed, using chemistry, the processes for the large-scale industrial printing of fabrics for which these plants in the area became known. John Macadam was privately educated in Glasgow; he studied chemistry at the Andersonian University (now the University of S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Australian General Election
The 1901 Australian federal election for the inaugural Parliament of Australia was held in Australia on Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 March 1901. The elections followed Federation and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives, six of which were uncontested, as well as all 36 seats in the Australian Senate, were up for election. After the initial confusion of the Hopetoun Blunder, the first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton, went into the inaugural 1901 federal election as the appointed head of a Protectionist Party caretaker government. While the Protectionists came first on votes and seats, they fell short of a majority. The incumbent government remained in office with the parliamentary support of the Labour Party, who held the balance of power, while the Free Trade Party formed the opposition. A few months prior to the 1903 election, Barton resigned to become a founding member of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constitutional Convention (Australia)
In Australian history, the term Constitutional Convention refers to four distinct gatherings. 1891 convention The 1891 Constitutional Convention was held in Sydney in March 1891 to consider a draft Frame of Government for the proposed federation of the British colonies in Australia and New Zealand. There were 46 delegates at the Convention, chosen by the seven colonial parliaments. Among the delegates was Sir Henry Parkes, known as the "Father of Federation". The Convention approved a draft largely written by Andrew Inglis Clark from Tasmania and Samuel Griffith from Queensland, but the colonial parliaments failed to act to give effect to it. 1897–1898 convention The next constitutional convention – the Australasian Federal Convention – was held in stages in 1897–98. Unlike the first convention, the delegates from New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania were elected by popular vote. (The delegates of Western Australia were chosen by its parliament). It me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shiels
William Shiels (3 December 1848 – 17 December 1904) was an Australian colonial-era politician, serving as the 16th Premier of Victoria. Biography Shiels was born in Maghera, County Londonderry, a town in the centre of Ulster in the north of Ireland. He was born into an Ulster-Scots Presbyterian family and arrived in Melbourne as a child in 1853. He was educated at Scotch College and the University of Melbourne, where he graduated in law and arts, gaining a master's degree in law in 1885. He was called to the Melbourne bar in 1872 and was also active in public life, being a noted campaigner for divorce law reform. Shiels was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Normanby in 1880, as a moderate liberal, holding that seat throughout his career. He was Attorney-General and Minister for Railways in the government of James Munro from 1890 to 1892. During this time Shiels was one of the few politicians to warn against the excesses of the Land Boom which swept Victor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Postmaster-General Of Victoria
The Postmaster-General of Victoria was a former ministry portfolio within the Cabinet of Victoria. The position was created in 1857, shortly after the colony separated from New South Wales. Upon Federation, Section 51(v) of the Constitution of Australia gave the Commonwealth exclusive power for "postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services"Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 s. 51(v). and the position in Victoria was abolished three months later on the 1st of March 1901. Ministers Notes Reference list Victoria State Government 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 ... Australian postmasters {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
