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Samuel McCaughey
Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia. Early life McCaughey was born on 1 July 1835 at Tullynewey, near Ballymena, Ireland, the son of Francis McCaughey, farmer and merchant, and his wife Eliza, ''née'' Wilson. McCaughey came to Australia with an uncle, Charles Wilson, a brother of Sir Samuel Wilson and landed at Melbourne in April 1856. He immediately went to the country and began working as a jackaroo, in three months was appointed an overseer, and two years later became manager of Kewell station while his uncle was on a visit to England. Career In 1860, after his uncle's return, he acquired an interest in Coonong station near Urana with two partners. His brother John, who came out later, became a partner in other stations. During the early days of Coonong station McCaughey suffered greatly from drought conditions, but overcame these by sinking bores for artesian water and construct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanco, New South Wales
Yanco is a village with a population of 505 in Leeton Shire in south western New South Wales, Australia. Yanco is a Wiradjuri aboriginal language word meaning ''the sound of running water''. Yanco is located from Leeton along Irrigation Way. Yanco is home to the Powerhouse Museum, McCaughey Park, Murrumbidgee Rural Studies Centre and Yanco Agricultural High School. Yanco North Post Office opened on 1 March 1888. It was renamed ''Yanko'' in 1892 and ''Yanco'' in 1928. Football The town has a team in the Group 20 Rugby League competition with neighbouring village Wamoon, the Yanco-Wamoon Hawks. They are renowned for winning five successive titles from 1992 to 1996, a competition record. The club briefly merged with rivals Narrandera from 2012 to 2014 as the Bidgee Hurricanes, but the sides demerged ahead of the 2015 season. They play at the Yanco Sports Ground, a picturesque oval located across the railway and irrigation channel from the town centre. The town had a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Argus (Melbourne)
''The Argus'' was an Australian daily morning newspaper in Melbourne from 2 June 1846 to 19 January 1957, and was considered to be the general Australian newspaper of record for this period. Widely known as a conservative newspaper for most of its history, it adopted a left-leaning approach from 1949. ''The Argus''s main competitor was David Syme's more liberal-minded newspaper, '' The Age''. History The newspaper was originally owned by William Kerr, who was also Melbourne's town clerk from 1851–1856 and had been a journalist at the '' Sydney Gazette'' before moving to Melbourne in 1839 to work on John Pascoe Fawkner's newspaper, the ''Port Phillip Patriot''. The first edition was published on 2 June 1846. The paper soon became known for its scurrilous abuse and sarcasm, and by 1853, after he had lost a series of libel lawsuits, Kerr was forced to sell the paper's ownership to avoid financial ruin. The paper was then published by Edward Wilson. By 1855, it had a daily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leeton, New South Wales
Leeton is a town located in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia. Leeton is situated in the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area, approximately 550 km west of Sydney and 450 km north of Melbourne. It is the administrative centre of the Leeton Shire Council local government area, which includes neighbouring suburbs, towns and localities such as Yanco, Wamoon, Whitton, Gogeldrie, Stanbridge and Murrami. Situated in one of the most productive farming regions in the state, the town was designed by Walter Burley Griffin and purpose-built for the irrigation schemes announced by the New South Wales government in the early 20th century. The Leeton Shire possesses numerous citrus, rice, cotton, grape, walnut and wheat farms. Leeton is known as ''Australia's Rice Capital,'' as well as ''The Heart of SunRice Country'', as it is home to the headquarters of SunRice corporation, one of Australia's largest food exporters. Other industry includes Arnott’s Biscuits (previously ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanco Agricultural High School
, motto_translation = As you sow, so shall you reap , location = , New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , type = Government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary day school , educational_authority = NSW Department of Education , specialist = Agricultural school , established = , founder = , district = Narrandera; Rural South and West , oversight = , principal = Marni Milne , teaching_staff = 34.2 FTE (2018) , grades = 7 12 , grades_label = Years , enrolment = 287 , enrolment_as_of = 2018 , medium_of_language = , campus_size = , campus_type = Rural and regional , colours = Royal blue, grey, white, khaki , alumni = Old Yanconians , affiliation = , website = , footnotes = , module = The Yanco Agricultural High School, abbreviated as YAHS, is a government-funded co-educational academically selective and specialist secondary boarding school, located in Yanco in the Leeton Shi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Sydney
The University of Sydney (USYD), also known as Sydney University, or informally Sydney Uni, is a public university, public research university located in Sydney, Australia. Founded in 1850, it is the oldest university in Australia and is one of the country's six sandstone universities. The university comprises eight academic faculties and university schools, through which it offers bachelor, master and doctoral degrees. The university consistently ranks highly both nationally and internationally. QS World University Rankings ranked the university top 40 in the world. The university is also ranked first in Australia and fourth in the world for QS graduate employability. It is one of the first universities in the world to admit students solely on academic merit, and opened their doors to women on the same basis as men. Five Nobel Prize, Nobel and two Crafoord Prize, Crafoord laureates have been affiliated with the university as graduates and faculty. The university has educated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Longstaff
Sir John Campbell Longstaff (10 March 1861 – 1 October 1941) was an Australian painter, war artist and a five-time winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture. His cousin Will Longstaff was also a painter and war artist. Longstaff was known for being fashionable and for being one of the most prolific portrait painters of the early 20th century. Biography Longstaff was born at Clunes, Victoria, second son of Ralph Longstaff, storekeeper and Janet (Jessie) Campbell. John was educated at a boarding school in Miners Rest and Clunes State School. He later studied at the Melbourne National Gallery School, after his father initially disapproved of his artistic ambitions. Longstaff's talent was recognised by George Folingsby. He married Rosa Louisa (Topsy) Crocker on 20 July 1887 Powlett Street, East Melbourne. He won the National Gallery of Victoria's first travelling scholarship for his 1887 narrative painting ''Breaking the News'' (which inspired a 1912 film of the same name) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gibb Nicholson
George Gibb Nicholson (1875–1948), often referred to as G. G. Nicholson, was an English-born Australian philologist and professor of French. He was the inaugural McCaughey Professor of French at University of Sydney.Angus Martin"The Teaching of French at Sydney" ''Arts: The Journal of the Sydney University Arts Association'', Vol. 14 (1989), p. 49. Retrieved 23 February 2019.Ivan BarkoNicholson, George Gibb (1875–1948) '' Australian Dictionary of Biography''. Retrieved 24 February 2019. Early life and education George Nicholson was born on 20 September 1875 in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, England. His parents were Donald Nicholson, a cashier, and Euphemia Scott, ''née'' Gibb, who had at one time run a private school in Aberdeen, Scotland. The family emigrated to Australia, arriving in Melbourne in February 1884 and settling in Launceston, Tasmania [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Advertiser (Adelaide)
''The Advertiser'' is a daily tabloid format newspaper based in the city of Adelaide, South Australia. First published as a broadsheet named ''The South Australian Advertiser'' on 12 July 1858,''The South Australian Advertiser'', published 1858–1889 National Library of Australia, digital newspaper library. it is currently a tabloid printed from Monday to Saturday. ''The Advertiser'' came under the ownership of Keith Murdoch in the 1950s, and the full ownership of in 1987. It is a publication of Advertiser Newspapers Pty Ltd (ADV), a subsidiary of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The King's School, Parramatta
, motto_translation = "Bravely and Faithfully" , streetaddress = 87–129 Pennant Hills Road , city = North Parramatta, Sydney , state = New South Wales , country = Australia , coordinates = , pushpin_map = Australia Sydney , pushpin_label_position = bottom , pushpin_mapsize = 250 , pushpin_map_caption = Location in greater metropolitan Sydney , type = Independent day and boarding , denomination = Anglican , established = 1831 , founder = William Grant Broughton , chairman = , headmaster = Tony George , key_people = , grades = Early learning; K-12 , grades_label = Years , gender = Male , colours = Sky blue and white , slogan = Academic excellence with character development , athletics = AAGPS , affiliations = , website ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cranbrook School, Sydney
Cranbrook may refer to: People * Earl of Cranbrook, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ** Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 1st Earl of Cranbrook (1814–1906), British Conservative politician ** John Stewart Gathorne-Hardy, 2nd Earl of Cranbrook (1839–1911), Conservative Member of Parliament Places Australia *Cranbrook, Bellevue Hill, historic residence in Sydney * Cranbrook, Queensland, a suburb of Townsville * Cranbrook, Tasmania, in Glamorgan Land District * Cranbrook, Western Australia * Shire of Cranbrook, Western Australia Canada * Cranbrook, British Columbia, a city ** Cranbrook Memorial Arena * Cranbrook (electoral district), existing from 1903 to 1963 * Cranbrook/Canadian Rockies International Airport * Cranbrook, Ontario, a pre-Confederation settlement near Listowel England * Cranbrook Castle, an Iron Age Hill fort in Devon * Cranbrook, Devon, a new town in East Devon ** Cranbrook (Devon) railway station * Cranbrook, Kent ** Cranbrook Colony, a group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
