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William Patrick Manning
Sir William Patrick Manning (18 November 1845 – 20 April 1915) was an Australian financier and politician. Early life Manning was born at Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, to baker John Manning and Margaret Hourigan On 8 August 1868 he married Honorah Torpy in Sydney, with whom he had three daughters and five sons. Business interests He commenced working for an engineering firm, becoming chief accountant. The firm closed in the mid 1870s and he set up his own business as a public accountant and broker. He worked as a financier and had extensive business interests, including a director of the Sun Insurance Office from 1894, a director of the Citizens' Life Assurance Co from 1896 and chairman of the Australian Joint Stock Bank from 1911. Civic and political career On 1 December 1887 he was elected an alderman for the Bourke Ward on the Sydney Municipal Council with a large majority, defeating John Young (building contractor), John Young. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alderman William Patrick Manning
An alderman is a member of a Municipal government, municipal assembly or council in many jurisdictions founded upon English law with similar officials existing in the Netherlands (wethouder) and Belgium (schepen). The term may be titular, denoting a high-ranking member of a borough or county council, a council member chosen by the elected members themselves rather than by Direct election, popular vote, or a council member elected by voters. Etymology The title is derived from the Old English title of ''ealdorman'', which literally means "elder person", and which was used by the chief nobles presiding over shires. Similar titles exist in other Germanic languages, such as ' in Swedish language, Swedish, ' in Norwegian language, Norwegian, ' in Danish language, Danish and Low German, ' in West Frisian language, West Frisian, ' in Dutch language, Dutch, and ' in German language, German. Finnish language, Finnish also has ', which was borrowed from Swedish. All of these words mean "eld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 House, Sydney, Parliament House in the state capital, Sydney. The Assembly is presided over by the Speaker of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly. The Assembly has 93 members, elected by Constituency, single-member constituency, which are commonly known as seats. Voting is by the Optional Preferential Voting, optional Instant-runoff voting, preferential system. Members of the Legislative Assembly have the post-nominals Member of the Legislative Assembly#Australia, MP after their names. From the creation of the assembly up to about 1990, the post-nominals "MLA" (Member of the Legislative Assembly) were used. The Assembly is often called ''the bearpit'' on the basis of the house's reputation for confro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of South Sydney
South Sydney was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1880 to 1894, covering the southern part of the current Sydney central business district, Haymarket, Surry Hills, Moore Park and Chippendale, bordered by George Street, Broadway, City Road, Cleveland Street, South Dowling Street, Dacey Avenue, the western edge of Centennial Park, Moore Park Road, South Dowling Street, Oxford Street and Liverpool Street. 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-Phillip, Sydney-Belmore, Sydney-Flinders and Sydney-Cook. Elections for the district were held in the general elections of 1880, 1882, 1885, 1887, 1889, and 1891. There was also a by-election in 1887 as a result of Bernhard Wise accepting the office of Attorney-General In most common law jurisdictions, the at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Toohey (New South Wales Politician)
James Matthew Toohey (18 March 1850 – 25 September 1895) was a brewer and politician in the Colony of New South Wales. Early life He was born in Melbourne to businessman Matthew Toohey and Honora Hall, his middle name referring to Father Mathew, the Irish apostle of temperance. He was educated at St Patrick's College, East Melbourne. On 5 June 1873 he married Catherine Magdalene Ferris, with whom he had twelve children. Brewing In 1870, aged 20, he opened a brewing business with his brother John. The brewery was successful, moving to larger premises in 1873 and again in 1876, and would eventually become the public company Tooheys. Politics He stood as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for district of South Sydney at the 1885 election. On the major issues of the election, he noted that it scarcely needed to be said that he was opposed to the local option, put forward by the teetotallers to reduce the consumption of alcohol, stating that "people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Edward Lees
Samuel Edward Lees (1843 – 14 June 1916) was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney to painter and glazier Samuel Lees and Caroline Whitehead, he attended William Street National School but was mostly self-educated. He was apprenticed as a printer and ultimately owned his own printing works from around 1869, expanding into several other interests including building companies in the 1880s. On 30 September 1871 he married Sarah Amy Davies, with whom he had five children. From 1879 to 1909 he was a member of Sydney City Council, serving as mayor in 1895 and 1904. In 1887 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the Free Trade member for Nepean, serving until 1895 and then again from 1898 to 1901. Lees died in 1916 at Potts Point Potts Point is a small and densely populated suburb in inner-city Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local government in Australia, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Mayor Of Sydney
The Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of Sydney is the head of the Council of the City of Sydney, which is the local government area covering the central business district of Sydney in the State of New South Wales, Australia. The Lord Mayor has been directly elected since 1995, replacing the previous system of being internally elected annually by the Councillors, and serves a four-year term. The most recent election was held on 14 September 2024, at which the incumbent Lord Mayor, Clover Moore, was re-elected to a sixth term. The Lord Mayor is assisted in their work by a Deputy Lord Mayor, who is elected on an annual basis by the elected councillors. Office history The office of the Mayor of Sydney along with the City of Sydney was created on 20 July 1842 pursuant to the ''Sydney City Incorporation Act 1842'' by Governor Sir George Gipps. Prior to the first municipal election, the governor nominated magistrate Charles Windeyer to serve as interim mayor. The first council, cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederic Manning
Frederic Manning (22 July 188222 February 1935) was an Australian poet and novelist. Biography Born in Sydney, Manning was one of eight children of local politician Sir William Patrick Manning. His family were Roman Catholics of Irish origin. A sickly child who suffered from asthma, Manning was educated exclusively at home. As a teenager he formed a close friendship with the Reverend Arthur Galton, a scholarly man who was secretary to the Governor of New South Wales. Galton went home to England in 1898, taking Manning with him. Manning returned to Australia in 1900 but finally settled in the United Kingdom in 1903. Early years in England Manning moved in with Galton, who had become vicar of Edenham, a village about three miles north-west of Bourne in south Lincolnshire. He devoted his time to study, reading voraciously, particularly the classics and philosophy, under the domineering influence of Galton. Although he seemingly shared Galton's contempt for Catholicism, Mann ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Bay, New South Wales
Rose Bay is a harbourside Eastern Suburbs (Sydney), eastern suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Rose Bay is located seven kilometres east of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government areas of Woollahra Council, Municipality of Woollahra (on its western side towards the bay) and Waverley Council (east of Old South Head Road). Geography Rose Bay has views of both the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge together. Lyne Park abuts Port Jackson, Sydney Harbour on its west. Shark Island (Port Jackson), Shark Island is located in Sydney Harbour, just north of Rose Bay. History The original name of the land now known as Rose Bay is Banarung, Dharag Language. Rose Bay was named after the Right Honourable George Rose (Treasurer of the Navy), George Rose, who was joint Secretary to the British Treasury with Thomas Steele (British politician), Thomas Steele, after whom Steel(e) Point at Nielsen P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Honora Manning Grave
Honora may refer to: * ''Honora'' (moth), a genus of snout moths * Honora, Ontario, a community in Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands, Canada People with the given name * Honora Burke (c. 1675 – 1698), Irish aristocrat * Honora Denny (died 1614), English courtier * Honora Enfield (1882–1935), British co-operative activist * Honora Jenkins, English woman who was part of a 1778 case in English law * Honora Kelley (1854–1938), birth name American serial killer Jane Toppan * Honora Ornstein (1882–1975), one of the Americans known as Diamond Tooth Lil * Honora Seymour, Lady Beauchamp (), English noblewoman, wife of Edward Seymour * Honora Seymour (bef. 1594–1620), English noblewoman, wife of Ferdinando Sutton * Honora Sneyd Honora Edgeworth (''née'' Sneyd; 1751 – 1 May 1780) was an eighteenth-century English writer, mainly known for her associations with literary figures of the day particularly Anna Seward and the Lunar Society, and for her work on childr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Results Of The 1898 New South Wales Colonial Election
The 1898 New South Wales colonial election was for 125 electoral districts, with each district returning one member. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. In this election, in 21 electorates the winning candidate received less than 50% of the votes, while 3 were uncontested. The average number of enrolled voters per electorate was 2,416, ranging from The Shoalhaven (1,577) to Marrickville (3,516). Election results Albury Alma Annandale Argyle Armidale Ashburnham Ashfield Ballina Balmain North Balmain South The Barwon Bathurst Bega Bingara Boorowa Botany Bourke Bowral Braidwood Broken Hill Burwood William McMillan had been elected as a Free Trade member, but changed to National Federal for this ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Woollahra
Woollahra was an New South Wales Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, originally created with the abolition of multi-member constituencies in 1894 from part of Electoral district of Paddington (New South Wales), Paddington, along with Electoral district of Waverley, Waverley and Electoral district of Randwick, Randwick. It was named after and including the Sydney suburb of Woollahra, New South Wales, Woollahra. In 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation, it was absorbed into Electoral district of Eastern Suburbs (New South Wales), Eastern Suburbs. Woollahra was recreated in 1927 and abolished in 1962. Members for Woollahra Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1894 1894 establishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 1920 1920 disestabl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Sydney-Phillip
Sydney-Phillip was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It was located in central Sydney and named after Arthur Phillip Arthur Phillip (11 October 1738 – 31 August 1814) was a British Royal Navy officer who served as the first Governor of New South Wales, governor of the Colony of New South Wales. Phillip was educated at Royal Hospital School, Gree .... It was created in 1894 from part of South Sydney. It was in the area surrounding central railway station area, bounded by Liverpool Street in the north, Elizabeth Street in the east, Cleveland Street in the south, while the western boundary consisted of Newtown Road, George Street West and George Street. In 1904 it was largely replaced by Phillip. Members for Sydney-Phillip Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1894 1894 establishments in Australia Constituencies dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
