Samuel Vincent "Stormy" Winter (23 March 1843 – 16 October 1904) was a newspaper proprietor and editor in the colony of
Victoria, Australia
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. He served two terms as mayor of
Richmond, Victoria
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, in the second instance being distinguished as the first mayor of the
City of Richmond
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History
Richmond was incorporated as a municipality on 24 Ap ...
.
History
Samuel was born in the
Goulburn
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district in 1843, eldest son of Samuel Winter (1786–1861)and Alice "Ally" Winter, née O'Sullivan (1818 – 11 January 1905);
[Geoffrey Serle, 'Winter, Samuel Vincent (1843–1904)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/winter-samuel-vincent-4875/text8153, published first in hardcopy 1976, accessed online 28 June 2016] his parents shortly afterwards moved to Clifton Street,
Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
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. He was a bright student, but was forced at age 13 by the death of his father in 1857 to leave school. He was apprenticed as a compositor to printer W. H. Williams. In 1868 with assistance from Sir
Charles Gavan Duffy
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, KCMG, PC (12 April 1816 – 9 February 1903), was an Irish poet and journalist (editor of ''The Nation''), Young Irelander and tenant-rights activist. After emigrating to Australia in 1856 he entered the politics of ...
, the Very Rev. J. Dalton, S.J., the Rev. G. V. Barry, and Hon.
Michael O'Grady
Michael O'Grady (born 11 October 1942) is an English former professional footballer born in Leeds, who played two games for the England national team, scoring three goals. , he founded ''
The Advocate'', a newspaper oriented towards the Irish Catholic community, and of which he was manager and editor for several years, when he handed it over to his brother Joseph.
He then led a consortium to purchase
''The Herald'' (Melbourne), which had fallen on hard times, and became its business manager, then also editor in 1874. In 1881 he founded ''
The Sportsman'', which he sold in 1893
In 1891 ''The Weekly Times'' was incorporated into ''The Herald'', and in 1894 the company took over the ''
Evening Standard
The ''Evening Standard'', formerly ''The Standard'' (1827–1904), also known as the ''London Evening Standard'', is a local free daily newspaper in London, England, published Monday to Friday in tabloid format.
In October 2009, after be ...
''. At the time of his death he was general manager of the
Herald and Weekly Times
The Herald and Weekly Times Pty Ltd (HWT) is a newspaper publishing company based in Melbourne, Australia. It is owned and operated by News Pty Ltd, which as News Ltd, purchased the HWT in 1987.
Newspapers
The HWT's newspaper interests date b ...
Newspaper Company, and editor-in-chief of the company's publications.
Politics
In 1875, he was elected a councillor of Richmond, and was at the forefront in introducing the city's tramways system. In 1877 he was elected Mayor of the municipality, and again in 1881, shortly before Richmond became a city on 17 February 1882. He laid the foundation stones of the South Richmond Free Library in 1877 and of the Swan Street east bridge over the
Yarra River
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The lower stre ...
in 1881.
[
He was in 1877 and again in 1883 a candidate for the Legislative Assembly seat of ]Richmond
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* Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States
* Richmond, London, a part of London
* Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England
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* Richmond, California, ...
, but was not elected.
He lived most of his adult life at Church Street, Richmond, led a very private life in his last years, and died at his residence, Walsh-street, South Yarra, after a very short illness, and had a private funeral.
Other interests
*Samuel was a founding member of the Australian Natives' Association
The Australian Natives' Association (ANA) was a mutual society founded in Melbourne, Australia in April 1871. It was founded by and for the benefit of native-born white Australians and membership was restricted exclusively to that group.
The A ...
.
*He was Secretary of St. Patrick's Society for seven years, relinquishing the post when he took up the ''Herald'', and was subsequently elected president.[
]
Family
Samuel's brother Joseph Winter (26 October 1844 – 2 December 1915) took over management and editorship of ''The Advocate'' around 1870. Another brother John Winter ( – ) was in the Public Service. Youngest brother James Winter ( – ) married Bridget Comber on 23 September 1872
S. V. Winter married Lucy Helen Stodart (c. 1846 – 6 May 1882) on 14 May 1863.[ Their children included:
*Samuel Stodart Winter (1867 – 15 January 1933?) married Ellen Barry (1866–1913) in 1889. He married again, to Catherine Brooks in 1915
*Joseph Stodart Winter (c. December 1870 – 1950)
*Lucy Helen Winter ( – ) married James Henry Dodds on 1 August 1899
*John Stodart Winter (c. December 1876 – )
He may have married again, to Miss Scott of Richmond, some time after May 1888.]
References
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1843 births
1904 deaths
Australian newspaper proprietors
Australian newspaper editors
People from the Colony of Victoria
Mayors of places in Victoria (state)
19th-century Australian politicians
19th-century Australian businesspeople