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James Rouget
James Rouget (15 April 1866 – 10 June 1924) was an Australian politician. He was born in Yering, Victoria, Yering to farmer John Rouget and Susan Le Page, both of whom were from Guernsey. He grew up in Wandin, Victoria, Wandin and became an orchardist, and on 28 November 1894 married Anne Blanksby, with whom he had seven children. He later worked as a secretary at the Evelyn Preserving Company, rising to the position of general manager. He served on Shire of Lillydale, Lillydale Shire Council from 1901 to 1922, with three terms as president (1906–1907, 1909–1910, 1918–1919). In 1914 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the member for Electoral district of Evelyn, Evelyn, but he was defeated at the next election in 1917. He moved to St Kilda, Victoria, St Kilda in 1922 to become a valuator, but he died in Murrumbeena, Victoria, Murrumbeena in 1924. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Rouget, James 1866 births 1924 deaths Nationalist Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yering, Victoria
Yering is a town in Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 38 km north-east from Melbourne, Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Yering recorded a population of 138 at the . Yering was home to one of Victoria's first wineries. History In 1837, brothers William Ryrie, William, Donald and James Ryrie, accompanied by four convict stockmen, set out from the Monaro, New South Wales, Monaro region of New South Wales driving 250 head of stock, settling in the Yarra Valley at Yering, which was the Indigenous Australians, Indigenous name for the local area."Yering" derives from either "Yerrang", meaning "scrubby", or "Yerring", meaning "beard". They also brought wines with them, and when visitors came to the property, they were treated to wine labelled by Donald Ryrie (his brothers having meanwhile returned to New South Wales) as "Chateau Yering" with ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guernsey
Guernsey ( ; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; ) is the second-largest island in the Channel Islands, located west of the Cotentin Peninsula, Normandy. It is the largest island in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, which includes five other inhabited islands – Alderney, Herm, Jethou, Lihou and Sark – and many small islets and rocks. The bailiwick has a population of 63,950, the vast majority of whom live on Guernsey, and the island has a land area of . Guernsey was part of the Duchy of Normandy until 1204, when the Channel Islands remained loyal to the English crown, splitting from mainland Normandy. In 1290, the Channel Islands were divided administratively and Guernsey became part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey. During the World War II, Second World War, Guernsey was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany. After five years of occupation, the island was liberated on 9 May 1945, that date being celebrated annually as Liberation Day. Guernsey is administered as part of the Bailiwick of Gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wandin, Victoria
Wandin North is a town in Victoria, Australia, 40 km east from Melbourne's central business district, located within the Shire of Yarra Ranges local government area. Wandin North recorded a population of 3,132 at the . History The Post Office opened around 1909. An earlier office (1884) named Wandin North was renamed Seville. There are two operational schools in Wandin North and the original of these schools is Wandin Yallock Primary School which was established in 1870. It is nestled amongst orchards and general farming land in the picturesque Yarra Valley. The Wandin North Primary School opened in 1915 and in 2016 had 240 students. Railway Wandin North used to have a railway station, simply called Wandin. It was on the branch line to Warburton, which opened in 1901 and closed in 1965. The passenger platform remains, having been rebuilt. The railway reserve for the former line is now the Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail The Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail (als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shire Of Lillydale
The Shire of Lillydale (note spelling difference from the suburb of Lilydale) was a local government area about northeast of Melbourne, the state capital of Victoria, Australia. The shire covered an area of , and existed from 1856 until 1994. History The Lillydale Road District was first created on 19 September 1856, and became a shire on 16 February 1872. It was named after Lilly de Castella, the daughter of an Australian military officer. It lost its southwestern sections when the Borough of Ringwood (22 October 1924) and the Shire of Croydon (24 May 1961) severed from the shire and incorporated separately. Accessed at State Library of Victoria, La Trobe Reading Room. On 15 December 1994, the Shire of Lillydale was abolished, and along with the Shires of Healesville and Upper Yarra, and parts of the Shire of Sherbrooke, was merged into the newly created Shire of Yarra Ranges. Council formerly met at the Shire Offices in Lilydale. The term " Labor Omnia Vincit", on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Assembly
The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne, Spring Street, Melbourne. The main colour used for the upholstery and carpets furnishing the Chamber of the Legislative Assembly is green. The presiding officer of the Legislative Assembly is the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Speaker. There are presently 88 member of parliament, members of the Legislative Assembly elected from single-member divisions. History Victoria (Australia), Victoria was proclaimed a Colony on 1 July 1851 separating from the Colony of New South Wales by an act of the British Parliament. The Legislative Assembly was created on 13 March 1856 with the passing of the ''Victorian Electoral Bill'', five years after the creation of the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Evelyn
The electoral district of Evelyn is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly covering the urban fringe north east of Melbourne. It was first proclaimed in 1859. The seat has shrunk considerably in size as the eastern suburbs of Melbourne grew. It now includes the suburbs and towns of Coldstream, Gruyere, Lilydale, and Wonga Park. The seat is usually safe for the Liberal Party but it was won by the Labor Party during their three landslide victories of 1952, 1982 and 2002. At the 2006 election Christine Fyffe regained the seat for the Liberals, defeating Heather McTaggart. Fyffe was re-elected to the district during at the 2010 and 2014 Victorian state election The 2014 Victorian state election, held on Saturday, 29 November 2014, was for the 58th Parliament of Victoria. All 88 seats in the Victorian Legislative Assembly and 40 seats in the Victorian Legislative Council were up for election. The incum ...s. Members Election results Graphical summary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Kilda, Victoria
St Kilda is an inner seaside suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, southeast of the Melbourne central business district, located within the City of Port Phillip Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. St Kilda recorded a population of 19,490 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census.The beachfront and hill portion of the locality (between Fitzroy Street, the beach and St Kilda Road), is well known for its cafes, bars, palm trees and old flats and mansions, particularly along the main streets such as Fitzroy Street, Melbourne, Fitzroy Street, Grey Street, Melbourne, Grey Street and Acland Street. The locality also includes the lower density areas between Barkly Street and Hotham Street, and the area south of Carlisle Street down to Dickens Street, as well as a part of Albert Park. St Kilda was named by Charles La Trobe, then superintendent of the Port Phillip District, after a schooner, ''Lady of St Kilda'', which mooring (watercraft), moored at the main ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murrumbeena, Victoria
Murrumbeena ( ) is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia, 13 km south-east of Melbourne's Melbourne city centre, Central Business District, located within the City of Glen Eira Local government areas of Victoria, local government area. Murrumbeena recorded a population of 9,996 at the 2021 Australian census, 2021 census. Murrumbeena is a small and highly coveted suburban area with extensive parklands and a rich artistic heritage. It has multiple commercial zones featuring services and cafes, including Murrumbeena Village, near the train station; Poath Road; North Road; and Murrumbeena Road, near the Beauville Estate and Duncan McKinnon Reserve. Toponymy The name "Murrumbeena" derives from the Aboriginal word "mirambena." It may have meant "land of frogs", "moss growing on decayed wood" or it may be a derivative from the name of an Aboriginal elder. The evidence for any of these etymologies is uncertain. The name was officially adopted when the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ewen Cameron (Victorian Politician)
Ewen Cameron (10 April 1860 – 30 March 1906) was a politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly The Victorian Legislative Assembly is the states and territories of Australia, state lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria in Australia; the state upper house being the Victorian Legislative Council. Both houses sit at Parliament H .... Cameron was born in Morgiana near Hamilton, Victoria, the son of John Cameron and his wife Barbara Taylor. He was a grazier outside of politics, managing his family's property after his father's death, managing a property at Paschendale (then known as Struan) for five years, then at "Cloverdale", near Condah and Sinclair estate at Drumborg. He was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly on 1 November 1900, serving until his death in office in 1906. Cameron married Emma Harriet, née Nunn, and had four children. Maud Cameron became a teacher and school headmistress; Winifred became a doctor; and Edith became a nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Everard (Victorian Politician)
William Everard may refer to: *Wiliam Everard (fl. 14th century), MP for Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ... in the 4th Parliament of Henry IV (5 Hen. 4 / 5 H. 4; 1404, Jan.) * William Everard (Digger) (c. 1602 – d. in or after 1651), early leader of the Diggers * William Everard (Victorian politician) (1869–1950), member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Evelyn * William Everard (South Australian politician) (1819–1889), member of South Australia's Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council * William Everard (brewer), founder of Everards Brewery in Leicester **Sir William Lindsay Everard (1891–1949), brewer and grandson of the first William Everard, politician and philanthropist from Leicestershire, United Kingdo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee. ** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published. * January 6 – Ottoman troops clash with supporters of Maronite leader Youssef Bey Karam, at St. Doumit in Lebanon; the Ottomans are defeated. * January 12 ** The '' Royal Aeronautical Society'' is formed as ''The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain'' in London, the world's oldest such society. ** British auxiliary steamer sinks in a storm in the Bay of Biscay, on passage from the Thames to Australia, with the loss of 244 people, and only 19 survivors. * January 18 – Wesley College, Melbourne, is established. * January 26 – Volcanic eruption in the Santorini caldera begins. February * February 7 – Battle of Abtao: A Spanish naval squadron fights a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet, at the island of Abtao, in the Chiloé Archipelago of southern Chile. * February 13 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1924 Deaths
Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in China holds its 1st National Congress of the Kuomintang, first National Congress, initiating a policy of alliance with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Communist Party. * January 21 – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, The Earl of Athlone is appointed Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, and High Commissioner for Southern Africa.Archontology.org: A Guide for Study of Historical Offices: South Africa: Governors-General: 1910-1961 (Accessed on 14 April 2017) * January 22 – R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
