The City of Warwick was a

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administering the regional centre of

Warwick Warwick ( ) is a market town, civil parish and the county town of Warwickshire in the Warwick District in England, adjacent to the River Avon, Warwickshire, River Avon. It is south of Coventry, and south-east of Birmingham. It is adjoined wit ...

in the

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region of

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. The City covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1861 until 1994, when it was dissolved and amalgamated with

Shire of Allora The Shire of Allora was a local government area north of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Allora, covered an area of , and existed as a local government entity from 1869 unt ...

, Shire of Rosenthal and

Shire of Glengallan The Shire of Glengallan was a local government area south and east of the regional centre of Warwick in the Darling Downs region of Queensland. The shire, administered from Warwick, covered an area of , and existed as a local government ent ...

to form the Shire of Warwick.

History

The Borough of Warwick came into being on 25 May 1861 under the ''Municipalities Act 1858'', a piece of New South Wales legislation inherited by Queensland at its separation two years earlier. With the passage of the ''Local Authorities Act 1902'', the Borough of Warwick became the Town of Warwick. On 4 April 1936 it was proclaimed as the City of Warwick. On 19 March 1992, the Electoral and Administrative Review Commission, created two years earlier, produced its report ''External Boundaries of Local Authorities'', and recommended that local government boundaries in the Warwick area be rationalised into 3 new local government areas. That recommendation was not implemented, but the outcome was that the City of Warwick was merged with the Shires of Allora, Glengallan and Rosenthal to form a new Shire of Warwick. The ''Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994'' was gazetted on 20 May 1994. On 25 June, an election was held for the new council, and on 1 July 1994, the City of Warwick was abolished.

Mayors

* 1861-1862: James Jones Kingsford * 1863: Thomas McEvoy * 1864: William Marshall * 1865: S. W. Alfred * 1866: Thomas McEvoy * 1866-1867 James Morgan, father of

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(mayor 1886-1889 and Premier of Queensland) * 1868: John Liddell Ross * 1869: Edmund L. Thornton * 1870 John Liddell Ross * 1871-1872: Samuel Evenden * 1873-1874: John Liddell Ross * 1875: Frederick Morgan * 1876: Frederick Hudson * 1876-1877: Jacob Horwitz, Member of the

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for

* 1878: John W. Quinn * 1879-1880: James M'Keachie * 1881-1884:

Thomas Alexander Johnson Thomas Alexander Johnson (19 June 1835 – 28 October 1914) was an Irish Australian businessman, Mayor of Warwick and member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Biography Johnson was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland, in 1835, ...

, Member of the Queensland Legislative Council and father of W.G. Johnson (mayor in 1912) * 1885: W.D. Wilson * 1886-1889:

, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Warwick, Member of the

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* 1890: John Archibald, also Member of the Queensland Legislative Council * 1891: John Healy, a council member for 33 years and father of John Healy, Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Warwick * 1892:

Francis Grayson Francis Grayson (2 September 1849 – 27 July 1927) was a shopkeeper and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Grayson was born at Lurgan, County Armagh, to parents John Grayson and his wife Jane (née Irwin) and educated a ...

, also Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for

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* 1893: William Morgan * 1894: William Collins * 1895: Jeremiah Allman, father of John Allman (mayor in 1933) * 1896: Francis Grayson (2nd term) * 1897: John Archibald (2nd term) * 1898: Arthur Morgan (2nd term) * 1899: William Wallace * 1900-1901: William Morgan * 1902: Jeremiah Allman (2nd term) * 1903: C.B. Daveney * 1904: Francis Grayson (3rd term) * 1905: J.D. Connellan * 1906: J.S. Morgan * 1907: B.T. De Conlay * 1908-1909: R.J. Shilliday * 1910: Daniel Connolly — availabl
online
* 1911: John Healy (2nd term) * 1912: W.G. Johnson, son of Thomas Alexander Johnson (MLC and mayor in 1881-1884) * 1913: John Allman — availabl
online
* 1914: John Lamb * 1915: John Anderson * 1916: D.J. Hutchings * 1917-1918: John W. Gilham * 1919: A.P. Jutsum * 1920: R.E. Gillam * 1921-1923: John Anderson * 1924: Daniel Connolly * 1927: Daniel Connolly * 1933-1936: John Allman, son of Jeremiah Allman (mayor in 1895) — availabl
online
* 1988: Stanley Richard Walsh

Town clerks

* 1861: Edward Jones * 1861: C. F. Bell * 1861-1863 :John Oxenham * 1863-1865: George Kennedy * 1865-1868: J. M. Garrett * 1868-1903: F. B. Woods * 1903-1916: J. Spreadborough

Population

References

External links

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Local Government (Allora, Glengallan, Rosenthal and Warwick) Regulation 1994
{{DEFAULTSORT:Warwick City Former local government areas of Queensland Warwick, Queensland 1861 establishments in Australia 1994 disestablishments in Australia