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Results Of The 1860 New South Wales Colonial Election
The 1860 New South Wales colonial election was for 72 members representing 60 Electoral districts of New South Wales, electoral districts. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. In this election there were 8 multi-member districts returning 20 members and 52 single member districts. In the multi-member districts each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were vacancies. 15 districts were uncontested. There were three districts that did not have a residential or property qualification, Electoral district of Goldfields North, Goldfields North (650), Electoral district of Goldfields South, Goldfields South (3,720) and Electoral district of Goldfields West, Goldfields West (8,400). The average number of enrolled voters per seat in the other districts was 1,394 ranging from Electoral district of Paterson, The Paterson (536) to Electoral district of Lachlan, The Lachlan (3,592). The electoral boundaries were estab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 New South Wales Colonial Election
The 1860 New South Wales colonial election was held between 6 December and 24 December 1860. This election was for all of the 72 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and it was conducted in 52 single-member constituencies, six 2-member constituencies and two 4-member constituencies, all with a first past the post system. Suffrage was limited to adult white males. This was the first election after the separation of Queensland in December 1859. The previous parliament of New South Wales was dissolved on 10 November 1860 by the Governor of New South Wales, Governor, William Denison, Sir William Denison, on the advice of the Premier of New South Wales, Premier, John Robertson (New South Wales Premier), John Robertson. While there was no recognisable party structure at this election, the Sydney Morning Herald identified three main factions in the Legislative Assembly. 38 members were considered to support the government, 11 were in opposition, and a further 23 that suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Lord
George William Lord (15 August 1818 – 9 May 1880) was an Australian pastoralist, businessman and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1877 until his death. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1877. Lord was the Colonial Treasurer in the third government of James Martin. Early life Lord was the seventh child of the ex-convict and pioneering entrepreneur Simeon Lord. At the age of 20 he began to acquire squatting runs in the Wellington district and by 1865 had the control of 672,000 acres. He was also a director of numerous colonial companies including, coal mines, meat works and the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. He married Elizabeth, a daughter of William Lee. Colonial Parliament At the first election under the new constitution Lord was elected to the Legislative Assembly as the member for Wellington and Bligh. He remained in the Assembly until 1877, representing Bogan after Wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Roberts (Australian Politician)
William Roberts (1821 – 1 July 1900) was an Australian politician. He was born in Sydney to William Roberts and Susannah Jane Moss. On 2 April 1842 he married Louisa Wilhelmina Kemp, with whom he had nine children. A solicitor from 1845, he practised in Sydney from 1851 and in Goulburn from 1858. In 1859 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Goulburn Goulburn ( ) is a regional city in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, Australia, approximately south-west of Sydney and north-east of Canberra. It was proclaimed as Australia's first inland city through letters patent by Queen Victor ..., but he was defeated in 1860. Roberts returned to Sydney in 1871 and died there in 1900. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Roberts, William 1821 births 1900 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Raper
Edward Raper (1806 – 29 March 1882) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in Dublin and migrated to Australia around 1832. In 1834 he married Jane Feeney, with whom he had seven children. He worked as a butcher in Sydney, and in 1860 was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury. He was defeated in 1864. Raper died at Darlinghurst Darlinghurst is an inner-city suburb in the eastern suburbs of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Darlinghurst is located immediately east of the Sydney central business district (CBD) and Hyde Park, within the local government area of the Ci ... in 1882. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Raper, Edward 1806 births 1882 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Colony of New South Wales politicians British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lucas (Australian Politician)
John Lucas (24 June 1818 – 1 March 1902) was a builder and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council. Early life Lucas was born on 24 June 1818 at Kingston, part of , to John Lucas, a miller and builder, and Mary Rowley, a daughter of Thomas Rowley. He was educated at a Church of England school in Liverpool, and Captain Beveridge's boarding school. He left school to be apprenticed as a carpenter, the trade of his grandfather Nathaniel Lucas. Political career He first stood for the Legislative Assembly at the 1859 election for Canterbury, but was unsuccessful. He won the seat at the 1860 by-election, holding it at the 1860 general election. In December 1864 he was elected to both Canterbury, and Hartley, choosing to represent Hartley. He was defeated in an attempt to return to Canterbury at the election in December 1869. He regained a seat in the assembly at the 1871 Canterbury by-election, serving until ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Canterbury
Canterbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently represented by Sophie Cotsis of the Labor Party. Geography On its current boundaries, Canterbury includes the suburbs of Belmore, Campsie, Canterbury, Clemton Park, Earlwood, Lakemba, Undercliffe, and parts of Beverly Hills, Kingsgrove, Roselands, and Wiley Park. History Canterbury was created in 1859, replacing part of Cumberland (South Riding), named after and including the then town, now Sydney suburb, of Canterbury. It was bordered on the east by Glebe and Newtown, and from 1880, Balmain and Redfern and stretched in the north to Drummoyne and Rhodes, south to Georges River and west to a line between Salt Pan Creek and Homebush Bay. It was a multi-member electorate, electing two members until 1882 and then four members until the abolition of multi-member electorates in 1894, when it was split into Canterbury, Ashfield, Burwood, Petersham a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Oxley (politician)
Henry Molesworth Oxley (10 April 1826 – 20 March 1867) was an Australian politician. He was born at Kirkham near Camden to John Oxley and Emma Norton. In 1828, following the death of his father, he received a grant of land on the Wingecarribee River near Bowral in his father's honour. On 4 November 1854 he married Emily Orchard, with whom he had four children. In 1859 he was elected to the 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 ... for Camden, but he was defeated in 1860. Oxley died at Wingecarribee in 1867. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Oxley, Henry 1826 births 1867 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Plunkett
John Hubert Plunkett (June 1802 – 9 May 1869) was Attorney-General of New South Wales, an appointed member of the Legislative Council 1836–41, 1843–56, 1857–58 and 1861–69. He was also elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly 1856–60. He is best known for the prosecution of the colonists who brutally murdered 28 Aboriginals in the Myall Creek Massacre of 1838, seven of whom were convicted and hanged. Early life John Hubert Plunkett was born at Mount Plunkett, County Roscommon, Ireland, the younger of twins and son of George Plunkett and his wife Eileen, ''née'' O'Kelly. Plunkett entered Trinity College Dublin, in November 1819 (graduating B.A. in 1824) and was called to the Irish bar in 1826 and later to the English bar. He practised as a barrister on the Connaught circuit in 1826–32 with distinction, fought for Catholic Emancipation, and was given credit by Daniel O'Connell for the success of the Whig candidates in Connaught at the general electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Douglas (Queensland Politician)
John Douglas (6 March 1828 – 23 July 1904) was an Anglo-Australian politician and Premier of Queensland. Early life Douglas was born in London, the seventh son of Henry Alexander Douglas and his wife Elizabeth Dalzell, daughter of the Earl of Carnwath. His father, the third son of Sir William Douglas, 4th Baronet of Kelhead, was a brother of the sixth and seventh Marquesses of Queensberry. Douglas' father died in 1837 and his mother in 1833 (burial records of the church of St Mary-Le-Bone, London), he was educated at Edinburgh Academy, Rugby 1843-47 and Durham University where he graduated B.A. in 1850. Douglas arrived in New South Wales with his brother Edward in 1851 and was appointed a gold-fields commissioner, but gave this up to enter on a pastoral life. Politics Douglas was elected member for the Darling Downs and afterwards for Camden in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly until resigning on 17 July 1861. He moved to Queensland in 1863. On 12 May 1863 he w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Morrice
John Morrice (1811 – 20 February 1875) was an Australian politician. Personal life He was born in Jamaica to estate agent David Morrice and Anne White, and he was educated in England. He later settled at Berrima in New South Wales, and on 9 November 1838 married Jane Osborne, with whom he had twelve children. Career Morrice held land on the Murrumbidgee River and cattle runs on the Lachlan River, and during the gold rush was successful selling picks and shovels, becoming substantially wealthy. In 1860 he was elected to the 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 ... for Camden, serving until his retirement in 1872. Death Morrice died at Marulan in 1875. References 1811 births 1875 deaths Members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral District Of Camden
Camden is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's south-west. It is currently represented by Sally Quinnell of the party, who achieved a 13% swing in the 2023 election. Geography On its current boundaries, Camden takes in the suburbs of Bickley Vale, Camden, Camden Park, Camden South, Catherine Field, Cawdor, Cobbitty, Currans Hill, Elderslie, Ellis Lane, Gledswood Hills, Grasmere, Gregory Hills, Harrington Park, Kirkham, Mount Annan, Narellan, Narellan Vale, Smeaton Grange, and Spring Farm. History Camden was originally created in 1859, replacing part of West Camden and named after the town of Camden or Camden County, which includes Camden, the Southern Highlands and the Illawarra. It elected two members from 1859 to 1889 and three members from 1889 to 1894, when multi-member electorates were abolished. It was abolished in 1920, with the introduction of proportional representation and ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merion Moriarty
Merion Marshall Moriarty (1794 – 10 January 1864) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in County Cork to Vice-Admiral Sylverius Moriarty and Lydia Hinton. He joined the Royal Navy in 1807, travelling to Copenhagen, the Mediterranean and the West Indies. In 1814 he was promoted lieutenant, and he retired in 1815. On 15 October 1816 he married Anne Orpen, with whom he had nine children. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, qualifying in 1821, and practised at Dublin. In 1843 he migrated to New South Wales to serve as portmaster and harbourmaster; he retired in 1857. In 1860 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Braidwood; he held the seat until his death in Sydney in 1864. His son Abram Abraham (originally Abram) is the common Hebrews, Hebrew Patriarchs (Bible), patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father who began the Covenant (biblica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
