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Electoral District Of Yass Plains
Yass Plains 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 between 1859 and 1894. It largely replaced the electoral district of King and Georgiana. It was largely replaced by Electoral district of Yass, Yass in 1894. Members for Yass Plains Election results References Former electoral districts of New South Wales Constituencies established in 1859 1859 establishments in Australia Constituencies disestablished in 1894 1894 disestablishments in Australia {{NewSouthWales-gov-stub ... [...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 New South Wales state election, 1999 election. Prior to 1927 some districts returned multiple members, including 1920-1927 when all districts returned three, four or five members. Electoral district of Parramatta, Parramatta is the only district to have continuously existed since the establishment of the Assembly in 1856. References External linksNew South Wales State Electoral Commission* {{Australian state electoral district Electoral districts of New South Wales, Former electoral districts of New South Wales, * Lists of Australian electorates, New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert McIntosh Isaacs
Robert McIntosh Isaacs (26 September 1815 – 26 March 1876) was an Australian politician. Robert M. Isaacs was born at Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, the son of Robert Glover Isaacs and Ann (''née'' Frett). He was educated in England and called to the bar in 1839. On 27 July 1841, he married Barberina Rogers Harrison, with whom he had six children. From about 1846, Isaacs practiced as a barrister on the island of Antigua in the West Indies, during which time he was a member of the Legislature. For a period, he filled the role of acting Chief Justice and for several years was Chancellor to the Bishop. Isaacs and his family left the West Indies at the end of 1854 for England.Obituary: Mr. R. M. Isaacs ''Sydney Morning Herald'', 7 April 1876, page 7. In October 1855, Isaacs and his family sailed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1859 Establishments In Australia
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Constituencies Established In 1859
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provide the voters therein with representation in a legislature or other polity. That legislative body, the state's constitution, or a body established for that purpose determines each district's boundaries and whether each will be represented by a single member or multiple members. Generally, only voters (''constituents'') who reside within the district are permitted to vote in an election held there. The district representative or representatives may be elected by single-winner first-past-the-post system, a multi-winner proportional representative system, or another voting method. The district members may be selected by a direct election under wide adult enfranchisement, an indirect election, or direct election using another form of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Former Electoral Districts Of New South Wales
A former is an object, such as a template, gauge or cutting die, which is used to form something such as a boat's hull. Typically, a former gives shape to a structure that may have complex curvature. A former may become an integral part of the finished structure, as in an aircraft fuselage, or it may be removable, being used in the construction process and then discarded or re-used. Aircraft formers Formers are used in the construction of aircraft fuselage, of which a typical fuselage has a series from the nose cone to the empennage, typically perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. The primary purpose of formers is to establish the shape of the fuselage and reduce the column length of stringers to prevent instability. Formers are typically attached to longerons, which support the skin of the aircraft. The "former-and-longeron" technique (also called stations and stringers) was adopted from boat construction, and was typical of light aircraft built until t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Colls
Thomas Colls (1822 – 2 March 1898) was a politician and hotelier in New South Wales. He was born in Liverpool to Thomas Colls and Sarah Perkins. He attended a boarding school near Campbelltown before being apprenticed to a wheelwright. In 1847 he moved to Yass, working as a wheelwright, blacksmith and farrier. He became a hotelier in 1848, retiring in 1873. His first marriage was to Elizabeth Clegg in 1842 and produced ten children; the second was to Minnie Linsley in 1894. In around 1874 Colls was elected a Yass alderman and was elected Mayor of Yass in December 1874, re-elected in 1875. He continued to serve as an alderman until 1897. serving four times as mayor. In 1886, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Yass Plains. A Protectionist Protectionism, sometimes referred to as trade protectionism, is the economic policy of restricting imports from other countries through methods such as tariffs on imported goods, import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Francis Heydon
Louis Francis Heydon (23 April 1848 – 17 May 1918) was a politician and solicitor in New South Wales, Australia and was Minister of Justice for six weeks 1885 to 1886. Early life Heydon was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the son of Jabez King Heydon and Sophia Hayes. He was educated at St Mary's Cathedral school and then Sydney Grammar School. He was admitted as a solicitor in 1873 and practiced in Bathurst for eight years, before returning to Sydney where he entered into a partnership with Thomas Slattery. He married Mary Josephine Gell Lithgow, New South Wales on 15 August 1881. Political career He stood as a candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly at the 1880 election for Argyle, finishing 3rd with a margin of 212 votes (5.7%). He contested the by-election for Argyle in December 1881, but was again unsuccessful. He found success in January 1882 at the by-election for Yass Plains, holding the seat at the elections in December 1882 and October 1885. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Fitzpatrick (Australian Politician)
Michael Fitzpatrick (16 December 1816 – 10 December 1881) was a politician in colonial New South Wales, Australia. Fitzpatrick was born at Parramatta and educated at a Roman Catholic school and at the Australian College, where he entered in January 1832, and carried off the highest prizes. After acting as tutor at the Normal Institution, he became a clerk in the Lands Department of New South Wales in October 1837, first-class clerk in 1846, and clerk of the Executive Council in 1851. Fitzpatrick was selected as the first under secretary for Lands and Works in 1856, on the introduction of responsible government. When these departments were divided, he held the office of under secretary for Lands until 1869, when he retired on a pension. Fitzpatrick was member for Yass Plains in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 20 December 1869 to 10 December 1881 and colonial secretary in the Farnell ministry The Farnell ministry was the eighteenth ministry of the Colony of N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Faucett
Peter Faucett (1813 – 22 May 1894) was an Australian barrister, judge and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1865. He held the position of Solicitor General in the first government of James Martin. He was a judge of the Supreme Court between 1865 and 1888 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1888 and 1894. Early life Faucett was born in Dublin on 29 September 1813, the son Catherine Cook and Peter Faucett, a blacksmith from Ballyconnell, County Cavan. He was educated at Trinity College where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1845 and emigrated to Sydney in 1852 and was admitted to the New South Wales Bar on 19 December 1852 where he established a large, private legal practice, regularly appearing in criminal proceedings. Parliamentary career Faucett was as a member of the first New South Wales Legislative Assembly which was elected after the establishment o ... [...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] |
Henry O'Brien (Australian Politician)
Henry O'Brien (179327 January 1866) was an Irish-born politician and pastoralist in New South Wales, Australia. Early life He was born at Hollymount in County Mayo to farmer Henry O'Brien and Catherine Browne. His father died when he was young and he and his brothers Cornelius and Thomas were raised by their uncle William Browne. He worked on his uncle's properties before migrating to Sydney via Calcutta, arriving in April 1816. His mother, uncle and brothers all arrived in Sydney in 1816. Henry assisted in managing a property at Abbotsbury, while Cornelious managed a property in the Illawarra. From 1821 Henry was granted at Bathurst where he established a sheep station. Thomas disappeared on a journey to Bathurst in 1823. O'Brien also acquired a sheep station at Jugiong, which he named Douro. On 25 July 1836 he married Isabella Macdonald, however she died two years later (aged 27). O'Brien remarried on 28 November 1840 to Elizabeth Sadlier Cruden, with whom he had a son also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Laidlaw (politician)
Thomas Laidlaw (23 September 1813 – 12 June 1876) was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was born at Melrose, Roxburghshire, Melrose in Roxburghshire to merchant Alexander Laidlaw and Helen Cochrane. A banker, he migrated to New South Wales in 1839 and settled at Yass, New South Wales, Yass, where he became a partner in a general store. In 1841 he married Catherine Galvin, however she died the following year and they had no children. In 1859 he was elected unopposed to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Electoral district of Yass Plains, Yass Plains, but immediately resigned as he realised his role as deputy postmaster at Yass, on a salary of £20 a year, was an office of profit under the crown which disqualified him from parliament. He resigned as postmaster and was re-elected unopposed. He declined the position of Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, Colonial Treasurer in the Cowper ministry (1857–1859), second Cowper ministry. He did not re-contest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
