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Members Of The Victorian Legislative Assembly, 1894–1897
This is a list of members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, from the elections of 20 September 1894 to the elections of 14 October 1897. From 1889 there were 95 seats in the Assembly. Victoria was a British self-governing colony in Australia at the time. :Note the "Term in Office" refers to that member's term(s) in the Assembly, not necessarily for that electorate. :Graham Berry was Speaker, Francis Mason was Chairman of Committees. : Anderson died 10 April 1897; replaced by Peter McBride, sworn-in June 1897. : Ievers died 19 February 1895; replaced by John Barrett, sworn-in May 1895. : Patterson died 30 October 1895; replaced by James Whiteside McCay Lieutenant General Sir James Whiteside McCay, (21 December 1864 – 1 October 1930), who often spelt his surname M'Cay, was an Australian general and politician. A graduate of the University of Melbourne, where he earned Master of Arts an ..., sworn-in November 1895. : Scott left Parliament in June 1896; repl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral Districts Of Victoria
Electoral districts of Victoria are the electoral districts, commonly referred to as "seats" or "electorates", into which the Australian State of Victoria, Australia, Victoria is divided for the purpose of electing members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, one of the two houses of the Parliament of Victoria, Parliament of the State. The State is divided into 88 single-member districts. The Legislative Assembly has had 88 electorates since the 1985 election, increased from 81 previously. Electoral boundaries are redrawn from time to time, in a process called ''redivision''. The last redivision took place in 2021, when the Victorian Electoral Boundaries Commission reviewed Victoria's district boundaries. The boundaries arising from the 2013 redivision applied at the 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 and the 2018 Victorian state election, 2018 state elections. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Best (Australian Politician)
Sir Robert Wallace Best, KCMG (18 June 185627 March 1946) was an Australian lawyer and politician who served in both the Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ... and the Australian House of Representatives, House of Representatives. He was a Senator for Victoria (Australia), Victoria from 1901 to 1910, and then represented the Division of Kooyong in the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1922. Best served in cabinet in the second and third governments of Alfred Deakin. Before entering federal politics, he also served in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1901, where he was a government minister. Early life Best was born on 18 June 1856 in Collingwood, Victoria. He was the son of Jane (née Wallace) and Robert Henning Best, immigrants from Ireland. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Melbourne
The electoral district of Melbourne is an electorate of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. It currently includes the localities of Docklands, Victoria, Docklands, Carlton, Victoria, Carlton, Melbourne city centre, Melbourne, East Melbourne, Victoria, East Melbourne, West Melbourne, Victoria, West Melbourne, North Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Parkville, Newmarket, Kensington, Victoria, Kensington and Flemington, Victoria, Flemington, and includes Melbourne University. The district has been in existence since 1856 (it was abolished in 1859 and reestablished in 1889). The electorate was won in 2014 Victorian state election, 2014 for the first time by Australian Greens Victoria, Greens candidate Ellen Sandell. History Melbourne was one of the inaugural districts of the first Assembly in 1856. Its area was defined by the 1855 Act as: : now Flemington Bridge Melbourne was abolished in 1859, its area was split into the new electoral districts of Electoral district of East Mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Carter
Godfrey Downes Carter (1830 – 29 April 1902) was an Australian businessman, politician and mayor of Melbourne from 1884 to 1885. Born in Jamaica the son of a slaveholder, Carter was educated in England, and migrated to Australia in 1853. He would ultimately benefit from the compensation his father received from the British government for 22 slaves upon the abolition of slavery. Following his term as mayor, Carter represented the Electoral district of West Melbourne in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1885 to 1889. Carter died in South Yarra, Victoria South Yarra is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 4 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Melbourne and Stonnington local government areas. South Yarra recorded a populati ... on 29 April 1902. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carter, Godfrey Downes 1830 births 1902 deaths English emigrants to colonial Australia Mayors and lord mayors of Melbo ... [...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] |
Ewen Hugh Cameron
Ewen Hugh Cameron (24 July 1831 – 27 September 1915) was a builder, store-keeper and politician in colonial Victoria (state of Victoria post 1901), member for Evelyn in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1874 to 1914. Born in Kilmonivaig, Inverness-shire, Scotland, the son of Donald and Ann Cameron, Ewen Cameron arrived in Melbourne in 1853 and was engaged in the building industry with his brothers. He was a storekeeper at Anderson's Creek and Caledonia gold-diggings, a postmaster at Warrandyte in 1857 and farmed at Kangaroo Ground from 1860. Cameron was a member of the Castlemaine mining board and Eltham road board. He was the inaugural Eltham shire president in 1871 and president again later several times. From 10 June 1902 to 16 February 1904, Cameron served as Minister of Mines and Water Supply. From 16 February 1904 to 31 October 1908, he also served as Minister of Public Health, Commissioner of Public Works The Walsh Act is a piece of legislation in the U.S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Stawell
Stawell was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria from 1877 to 1904. It centred on the town of Stawell in western Victoria. Members After Stawell was abolished in 1904 along with the Electoral district of Ararat Ararat was an Victorian Legislative Assembly electoral districts, electoral district of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria (Australia), Victoria. The electorate was abolished in 1904 and r ..., the two districts were combined to create the district of Stawell and Ararat. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Stawell Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1877 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burton (Australian Politician)
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Electoral District Of Carlton
Carlton was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria located in the inner-Melbourne Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ... suburb of Carlton from 1877 to 1958. The district was defined as: Members for Carlton Election results External linksElection Notice, Carlton - 1897* References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carlton Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1877 establishments in Australia 1958 disestablishments in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Bromley
Frederick Hadkinson Bromley (30 November 1854 – 29 September 1908) was an English-born Australian trade unionist and early Labour leader in Victoria. Early life Bromley was born in 1854 in Wolverhampton Wolverhampton ( ) is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands (county), West Midlands of England. Located around 12 miles (20 km) north of Birmingham, it forms the northwestern part of the West Midlands conurbation, with the towns of ..., England. He trained as an artist at the School of Design in South Kensington, and became an artist specialising in japanning, a European imitation of Asian lacquerwork. Artistic career and trade union activity In 1879, Bromley migrated to Victoria, where he lived in Carlton and worked as a japanner for the tin-making firm of Hughes & Harvey. In the early 1880s, Bromley became active with the trade union movement, co-founding the Melbourne Tinsmiths, Iron-workers and Japanners' Society and serving as its first secretary. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Horsham
The electoral district of Horsham was an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria, centered on the town of Horsham, Victoria Horsham () is a regional city in the Wimmera region of western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Located on a bend in the Wimmera River, Horsham is approximately northwest of the state capital Melbourne. As of the 2021 census, Horsham .... It was created in 1889 and abolished in 1904. Members for Horsham References Former electoral districts of Victoria (state) 1889 establishments in Australia 1904 disestablishments in Australia {{VictoriaAU-gov-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Hugh Brake
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