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Members Of The Western Australian Legislative Council, 1832–1870
Western Australia was a crown colony from its establishment in 1829 as the Swan River Colony until the advent of representative government in 1870. During this time executive and legislative power was vested in the Governor of Western Australia, but from 1832 he had Executive and Legislative Councils to assist and advise him. The Western Australian Legislative Council The Western Australian Legislative Council is the upper house of the Parliament of Western Australia, a state of Australia. It is regarded as a house of review for legislation passed by the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Legislative A ... met for the first time on 7 February 1832. This is a list of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council between 1832 and 1870. Official members, 1832–1870 The Western Australian Legislative Council was initially composed of five ''ex officio'' members; that is, members by virtue of their official government positions. These official positions were: the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legislative Council Of Western Australia First Meeting
A legislature (, ) is a deliberative assembly with the authority, legal authority to make laws for a Polity, political entity such as a Sovereign state, country, nation or city on behalf of the people therein. They are often contrasted with the Executive (government), executive and Judiciary, judicial powers of government. Legislatures can exist at different levels of government–national, state/provincial/regional, local, even supranational (such as the European Parliament). Countries differ as to what extent they grant deliberative assemblies at the subnational law-making power, as opposed to purely administrative responsibilities. Laws enacted by legislatures are usually known as Primary and secondary legislation, primary legislation. In addition, legislatures may observe and steer governing actions, with authority to amend the budget involved. The members of a legislature are called legislators. In a democracy, legislators are most commonly popularly Election, elected, al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Septimus Roe 1850s
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartholemew Vigors
Bartholomew was one of the Apostles in the New Testament, twelve apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Most scholars today identify Bartholomew as Nathanael (follower of Jesus), Nathanael, who appears in the Gospel of John (1:45–51; cf. 21:2). New Testament references The name ''Bartholomew'' (, transliterated "Bartholomaios") comes from the ''bar-Tolmay'' "son of Tolmai" or "son of the furrows". Bartholomew is listed in the New Testament among the Twelve Apostles of Jesus in the three Synoptic Gospels: Gospel of Matthew, Matthew, Gospel of Mark, Mark, and Gospel of Luke, Luke, and in Acts of the Apostles. Tradition Eusebius of Caesarea's ''Church History (Eusebius), Ecclesiastical History'' (5:10) states that after the Ascension of Jesus, Ascension, Bartholomew went on a missionary tour to India, where he left behind a copy of the Gospel of Matthew. Tradition narrates that he served as a missionary in Mesopotamia and Parthia, as well as Lycaonia and Ethiopia in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Alexander John Piesse
Charles Alexander John Piesse (11 September 1812 – 6 March 1851) was an English civil servant who served briefly as the Colonial Secretary of Western Australia. He was an older brother of George William Septimus Piesse. In 1840 Piesse was appointed Secretary to the Central Loan Fund Board of Ireland, and the following year published a book about the loan fund system. He held this position until appointed Colonial Secretary of Western Australia in 1850. He arrived at Fremantle Fremantle () () is a port city in Western Australia located at the mouth of the Swan River (Western Australia), Swan River in the metropolitan area of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth. The Western Australi ... in October 1850 and died in office several months later, on 6 March 1851. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Piesse, Charles Alexander John 1812 births 1851 deaths Colonial secretaries of Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Yule (politician)
Thomas Yule (born 15 March 1976) is a male former Olympic weightlifting, weightlifter. Weightlifting career Born in South Africa, he represented Great Britain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He represented England at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, England and won three silver medals in the 105 kg category, at the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The three medals were won during an unusual period when three medals were awarded in one category (clean and jerk, snatch and combined) which invariably led to the same athlete winning all three of the same colour medal. Yule then twice claimed a bronze medal for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in 2002 and 2006. Education Yule was educated at Park House School and then St Batholomew's School in Newbury before attending Brasenose College, University of Oxford where in 1998 he received an MEng degree in Engineering Science. Major results * By 2002, medals were awarded in all three categories. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Revett Henry Bland
Rivett (or Revett) Henry Bland (2 February 1811 – 18 February 1894) was an early settler and a government administrator in colonial Australia. Bland was the son of Thomas Bland and Emma Revett,Daniele, L, Australian Dictionary of Biography and was born at Newark, Nottinghamshire, on 2 February 1811. He was educated at the Newark grammar school, and at 14, studied for the medical profession at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London but did not become a doctor. His brother was a member of the House of Commons.John E Deacon: A Survey of the Historical Development of the Avon Valley with Particular Reference to York, Western Australia During the Years 1830-1850, UWA, 1948. Western Australia After leaving England in May 1829 for Western Australia on , he arrived in August at the age of 18 with his man-servant.Shirley Lutze: Bland of Balladong, Barladong No. 2, The York Society History & Heritage Journal, 2001, p.16. Because of the money and property he brought with him, he was gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Fitzgerald
Charles Fitzgerald ( – 29 December 1887) was an officer in the British Royal Navy and Governor of The Gambia from 1844 until 1847, then Governor of Western Australia from 1848 to 1855. Son of Robert Fitzgerald and Lucinda Jackson of Kilkee, county Clare, Ireland (then part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), Fitzgerald joined the Royal Navy in March 1809, passed his examination in 1815, and was commissioned in March 1826. While in the naval service Fitzgerald was assigned to the Royal Navy's West Africa Squadron which was tasked with interdicting the Atlantic slave trade, where he served with distinction. Either during this time or possibly before, Fitzgerald became a staunch abolitionist and fierce opponent of slavery. In 1839 he seized two Spanish slave ships falsely flying the American flag. For legal reasons he escorted the ships to New York where the courts ruled them to be unlawful and Fitzgerald was allowed to take the freed slaves bac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Robert Madden
Richard Robert Madden (22 August 1798 – 5 February 1886) was an Irish doctor, writer, Abolitionism in the United Kingdom, abolitionist and historian of the United Irishmen. Madden took an active role in trying to impose anti-slavery rules in Colony of Jamaica, Jamaica on behalf of the British government. Early life Madden was born at Wormwood Gate Dublin on 22 August 1798 to Edward Madden, a silk manufacturer and his wife Elizabeth (born Corey) . His father had married twice and fathered twenty-one children.Richard Robert Madden egypt-sudan-graffiti.be, Retrieved 16 October 2015 Madden attended private schools and was found a medical apprenticeship in Athboy, County Meath. He studied medicine in Paris, Italy, and St George's Hospital, London. While in Naples he became acquainted with Marguerite, Countes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard West Nash
Richard West Nash (1808 – 22 December 1850 in London) was a lawyer, politician and newspaper owner in the early days of the British colony of Western Australia. History Nash was born in Dublin, son of Richard Nash, rector of Ardstraw in the diocese of Londonderry. He studied law at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating MA in 1932, and was admitted to the Irish Bar. He emigrated to Western Australia in 1839, having on 12 July 1834 married Elizabeth Schoales, whose brother John Schoales jun. had settled there in 1838. He practised law in Perth, but was also involved in farming, and was secretary of the Vineyard Society, for whom he compiled ''A Manual for the Cultivation of the Vine and Olive in Western Australia'', published in 1845. He wrote, as "Viator", occasional pieces for the newspapers and was briefly (1845–1847) owner of ''The Inquirer ''The Inquirer'' (stylized as TheINQUIRER) was a British technology tabloid website founded by Mike Magee after his departure from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Clarke
Andrew Clarke may refer to: * Andrew Clarke (British Army officer, born 1793) (1793–1847), Governor of Western Australia *Sir Andrew Clarke (British Army officer, born 1824) (1824–1902), Governor of the Straits Settlements, son of the above *Andrew Clarke (actor) (born 1954), Australian actor * Andrew Clarke (British politician) (1868–1940), Labour Member of Parliament 1923–1924, and 1929 * Andrew Clarke (cricketer, born 1961), English former cricketer * Andrew Clarke (cricketer, born 1975), English cricketer * Andrew Clarke (Trinidadian cricketer) (born 1945), Trinidadian cricketer * Andy Clarke (footballer) (born 1967), English former footballer *Andy Clarke (businessman) (born 1964), British businessman *Andy Clarke (comics), British comics artist *Andy C (Andrew Clarke, born 1973), English DJ *Andrew Clarke, a fictional character from ''The Breakfast Club ''The Breakfast Club'' is a 1985 American independent teen coming-of-age comedy-drama film written, produced, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Clarke (British Army Officer, Born 1793)
Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Clarke KCH (1793 – 11 February 1847) was Governor of Western Australia from 1846 until his death in 1847. Andrew Clarke was born in Donegal, Ireland in 1793. He entered the British Army as an ensign in the 8th West India Regiment (without purchase) at the age of 13 in 1806, and rose rapidly through the ranks. In 1808 he transferred to the 46th Foot as lieutenant, again without purchase. At the age of 18, he was given temporary command of the troops in Van Diemen's Land. In 1813 he became a captain and went to New South Wales with his regiment. In 1818 he was in India, and in 1823 he married a widow named Frances Lardner, while on leave in England. A son was born in July 1824. In 1825 he purchased a majority. He returned to Europe in 1833, was created a knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order in 1837, was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the Army in 1838, and purchased the lieutenant-colonelcy of his regiment in 1839. In 1842 Colonel Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
