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Electoral District Of West Sydney
West Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian State of New South Wales created in 1859 from part of the electoral district of Sydney, covering the western part of the current Sydney central business district, Ultimo and Pyrmont, bordered by George Street, Broadway, Bay Street and Wentworth Park Wentworth Park is a park near the suburbs of Glebe and Ultimo in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The park contains several muti-purpose sporting pitches, cricket nets and a number of fitness installations. There is a playground in the s .... It elected four members simultaneously, with voters casting four votes and the first four candidates being elected. For the 1894 election, it was replaced by the single-member electorates of Sydney-Gipps, Sydney-Lang, Sydney-Denison and Sydney-Pyrmont. Members for West Sydney Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales 1859 establishments in Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New South Wales Legislative Assembly Electoral Districts ...
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is elected from single-member electorates called districts, returning 93 members since the 1999 election. Prior to 1927 some districts returned multiple members, including 1920-1927 when all districts returned 3,4 or 5 members. Parramatta is the only district to have continuously existed since the establishment of the Assembly in 1856. External linksNew South Wales State Electoral Commission* {{Australian state electoral district * New South Wales ) , nickname = , image_map = New South Wales in Australia.svg , map_caption = Location of New South Wales in AustraliaCoordinates: , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = Australia , established_title = Before federation , es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pemell
James Pemell (1816 – 26 March 1906) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to baker James Pemell and his wife Maria. He migrated to New South Wales around 1836 and like his father worked as a baker. On 24 December 1839 he married widow Jane Fish, with whom he had three children. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1860. He returned to the Assembly for Canterbury Canterbury (, ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, situated in the heart of the City of Canterbury local government district of Kent, England. It lies on the River Stour, Kent, River Stour. ... in 1865, but resigned in 1869. Pemell died at Newtown in 1906. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pemell, James 1816 births 1906 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph George Raphael
Joseph George Raphael (16 February 1818 – 2 February 1879) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to Phillip Raphael, a merchant, and his wife Grace. He migrated to Sydney in 1839, working as a draper and acquiring his own general dealership by 1842. On 30 December 1840, he married Maria Moses, with whom he had five daughters. Active in the business community, he was a Sydney City Councillor from 1860 to 1866 and from 1870 to 1872. In 1872, he was elected to 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 ... for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1874. Raphael died in Sydney in 1879. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Raphael, Joseph 1818 births 1879 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wearne
Joseph Wearne (19 August 1832 – 8 June 1884) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at St Levan in Cornwall to miller Joseph Wearne and Susannah Rogers. He and his family migrated to Sydney in 1849, and after an attempt on the Victorian goldfields settled at Liverpool around 1853. Wearne became a flour miller. On 21 January 1857, he married Isabella Caldwell, with whom he had six children. He was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney in 1869, transferring to Central Cumberland in 1875 but resigning later the same year due to bankruptcy. He was discharged in 1876. Wearne died at Liverpool in 1884. His nephew, Walter Wearne Walter Ernest Wearne (2 September 186717 January 1931) was an Australian politician and member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1917 until 1930. He was initially elected as an Independent but subsequently formed the Progressive ..., also served in the Legislative Assembly. References & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Speer (politician)
William Speer (1818 – 20 September 1900) was an Irish-born Australian politician. Speer was born in County Tyrone and migrated to Australia in 1841. Elected an alderman of the Sydney Municipal Council in 1858, he served as mayor in 1864. In 1869 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he did not re-contest in 1872. Speer died at Glebe Point Glebe Point is a point on Sydney Harbour in the suburb of Glebe, New South Wales, Glebe, in the Inner West (Sydney), Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. External links GlebeNet: Information for Residents and Visitor ... in 1900. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Speer, William 1818 births 1900 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians Irish emigrants to colonial Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Campbell (New South Wales Politician)
William Robert Campbell (1838 – 3 July 1906) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to Annie Sophie Riley and Robert Campbell a merchant and member of the Legislative Council. He attended The King's School in Parramatta and was a pastoralist and merchant before entering politics. In 1868 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1869. On 24 February 1881 he married Eglantine Julia Thomson. He returned to the Assembly in 1880 as the member for Gwydir, serving until his resignation in 1886. He was then appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1890, where he remained until his death at Elizabeth Bay in 1906. He had extensive family connections in politics: his grandfather Robert, father, father-in-law Sir Edward Deas Thomson, and uncles John, and Charles Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English language, English and French language, French speaking countri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Joseph (Australian Politician)
Samuel Aaron Joseph (14 October 1824 – 25 September 1898) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born in London to Aaron Steatham Joseph and Frances Cohen. He migrated to Wellington in New Zealand in 1843 and moved to Sydney in 1856. He married Matilda Phillipa Levien in 1856; they had three children. In Sydney he was a merchant and closely involved in the business community. In 1864 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney, serving until his resignation in 1868 to travel to England. In 1882 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council; he left the Council in 1885 but returned in 1887, serving until 1893. Joseph died at Woollahra Woollahra is a suburb in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Woollahra is located 5 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the Municipality of Woolla ... in 1898. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Robertson (New South Wales Premier)
Sir John Robertson, (15 October 1816 – 8 May 1891) was a London-born Australian politician and Premier of New South Wales on five occasions. Robertson is best remembered for land reform and in particular the Robertson Land Acts of 1861, which sought to open up the selection of Crown land and break the monopoly of the squatters. Robertson was elected to Parliament in 1856 supporting manhood suffrage, secret ballot, electorates based on equal populations, abolition of state aid to religion, government non-denominational schools, free trade, and land reform. He saw free selection of crown land before survey as the key to social reform with poor settlers being able to occupy agricultural and pastoral land, even that occupied by lease-holding squatters. This insight enabled him to dominate the politics of 1856–61. Biography Robertson was born at Bow, London, the fourth child and third son of James Robertson, a watchmaker and pastoralist from Scotland, and English woman Anna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Darvall
Sir John Bayley Darvall (19 November 1809 – 28 December 1883) was an Australian barrister, politician and beneficiary of slavery. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865. He held the positions of Solicitor General and Attorney General in a number of short-lived colonial governments. Early life Darvall was born into an upper-middle-class Yorkshire family and was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. Subsequently, he was articled to his uncle, Sir John Bayley at the Middle Temple and was called to the English Bar in 1838. He was an awardee of a compensation claim made for 264 slaves totalling £3,461. He emigrated to Sydney in 1839 and established a large, private legal practice. Darvall accrued significant agricultural and pastoral interests and was a director of several colonial companie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Eagar
Geoffrey Eagar (17 December 1818 – 12 September 1891) was an accountant and colonial politician and civil servant in New South Wales, Australia. Early life Eagar was born in Sydney, son of Jemima McDuel and Edward, a lawyer, emancipated convict and merchant. Edward left Australia in 1821, while Geoffrey was still an infant, to take a legal battle over the rights of freed convicts to London, and did not return. His mother Jemima then married William Wentworth, and gave birth to a son. In 1843 he married Mary Ann Bucknell, and the couple had 4 children. Politics Eagar worked as an accountant at the Bank of New South Wales from 1854 for around five years before resigning to accept an appointment to the New South Wales Legislative Council in September 1859. The following month he was appointed Secretary for Public Works and Representative of the Government in the Legislative Council in the Forster ministry, serving until the ministry's defeat in March 1860. He resigned from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Love (Australian Politician)
William Love (1810-1885) was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for West Sydney from 1860 to 1864. Love served as Chairman of the Sydney Revenues Improvement Bill Committee. Early life Love married to Ellinor Robinson at Fintona, Ireland in 1838 and they arrived in Sydney in 1841 as bounty immigrants in the ''Brothers''. The family settled on the Coppabella Run at Tumbarumba, New South Wales, owned by Love's father-in-law, James Robinson (d.1868). After failing on the land, in 1850 Love opened a retail grocery shop at 476 George Street with his son James as a partner. In 1875 William was appointed police magistrate at Gundagai. NSW parliament Love was a candidate at the 1860 election where he was the third of four members elected, with 1,538 votes (14.4%). He stood again at the 1864–65 election however he was defeated, finishing seventh with 662 votes (5.3%). He stood again at the 1865 West Sydney by-election, but was again unsuccessful with 1,130 vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Dalgleish
Daniel Cameron Dalgleish (1 February 1827 – 18 February 1870) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born in Alloa to exercise supervisor Adam Dalgleish. He was apprenticed to an engineer in Edinburgh and then moved to London, where it was difficult to find work due to his membership of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers (ASE). In 1852 he moved to Sydney with others in a similar situation, and on the voyage they formed the first overseas branch of the ASE, which later became the Amalgamated Engineering Union. In 1860 he was elected to 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 ... for West Sydney, but he was defeated in 1864. In 1865 he lost a libel case to Thomas Holt. He was subsequently an inspector for the Steam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
