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Women's Suffrage In Victoria
Women's suffrage in Victoria, when women gained the right to vote in the state, was the result of many years of campaigning before Federation of Australia in the Colony of Victoria, and for eight years after in the State of Victoria. It was connected to the wider push for Women's suffrage in Australia. And yet while Victoria's campaign started earlier than other states, early lobbying culminated in the formation of Australia's first suffrage group, the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society (VWSS) in 1884, it was the last to grant state suffrage to women in 1908. Decades before the formation of the VWSS, women landowners, such as Fanny Finch in the colony identified that they were technically enfranchised in local election through their status as rate payers and attempted to lodge their votes. However, they were blocked from exercising this right by electoral administrators. In 1865 the legislators in the Colony removed the technicality by changing the language of legislation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federation Of Australia
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in Australia. The colonies of Fiji and New Zealand were originally part of this process, but they decided not to join the federation. Following federation, the six colonies that united to form the Commonwealth of Australia as states kept the systems of government (and the bicameral legislatures) that they had developed as separate colonies, but they also agreed to have a federal government that was responsible for matters concerning the whole nation. When the Constitution of Australia came into force, on 1 January 1901, the colonies collectively became states of the Commonwealth of Australia. The efforts to bring about federation in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dane (politician)
John Dane (7 January 1810 – 30 April 1882) was a British army officer and politician in colonial Victoria, a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and later, the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Early life Dane was born in Killyhewlin, County Fermanagh, Ireland, the son of Captain John Dane and Margaret Humphries. Dane junior retired from the British army with rank of captain in the 53rd Regiment. Colonial Australia Dane arrived in Melbourne in August 1851 and was appointed assistant gold commissioner at Bendigo in December 1851. He resigned the following February and returned to Melbourne, purchasing land in Boroondara in 1853. In 1853 he was elected to the unicameral Victorian Legislative Council for South Bourke, Evelyn and Mornington, a seat he held until resigning in November 1854. Dane was elected to the seat of Warrnambool in the Victorian Legislative Assembly in November 1864, a seat he held until December 1865. Dane died in Campbelltown, New South Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Munro (Australian Politician)
James Munro (7 January 1832 – 25 February 1908) was a Scottish born Australian businessman and colonial politician, and the 15th Premier of Victoria. He is best known as one of the leading figures in the land boom of the 1880s and especially the subsequent crash of the early 1890s, where his Christian morals were seen to clash with his business activities. Early life James Munro was born in Armadale, Sutherland, Scotland, to Donald Munro and his wife, Georgina. James Munro's grandparents were Alexander Munro and Barbara Mackay, who according to ''Australian Representative Men'', 2nd edition (1887), and ''Burke's Colonial Gentry'' (1891), were a cadet of the Munro of Foulis family, Ross-shire, and a relative of the chief of Clan Mackay respectively. However, Y chromosome DNA testing of paternal descendants and relatives of Alexander has confirmed that he was not descended from the Munros of Foulis. After a primary education at a village school in Armadale, Sutherland, Munro left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Part Of ‘Monster’ Petition For Women’s Suffrage 1891
Part, parts or PART may refer to: People *Part (surname) *Parts (surname) Arts, entertainment, and media *Part (music), a single strand or melody or harmony of music within a larger ensemble or a polyphonic musical composition *Part (bibliography), a sub-division of a volume or journal * ''Parts'' (book), a 1997 children's book by Tedd Arnold *Character (arts), in acting, a person or other being in a performed narrative Transportation *Pottstown Area Rapid Transit (PART), Pennsylvania, U.S. * Putnam Area Rapid Transit (PART), New York, U.S. *Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation (PART), North Carolina, U.S. Other uses *Part (mathematics) or Mereology, the study of parts and the wholes they form *Part-of, the semantic relation of a part to the whole specific to linguistics *Spare part, an interchangeable part used for repair *Part number, identifier of a particular part design in engineering *Part (haircut), a hairstyle *Parts of Lincolnshire, geographic divisions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Elizabeth Kirk
Maria (Marie) Elizabeth Kirk born Maria Elizabeth Sutton (9 December 1855 – 14 January 1928) was a British-born Australian temperance advocate and social reformer. She was involved in women's rights including organising a " Monster Petition" for women's suffrage in 1891. She was founder and inaugural organising secretary of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. Life Kirk is thought to have been born in London in 1855. Her Quaker parents were Maria Elizabeth and Alfred Peter Sutton. Her father worked in retail and so did her husband (1878). In time her husband, Frank Kirk, made boots and she was involved in helping in missions in London. In 1886 she went to Toronto as the representative of the British Women's Temperance Association in the formation of the International Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). She emigrated to Australia in 1886 and in 1887 she and Rev. Philip Moses were key figures in the creation of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance Movement In Australia
The temperance movement has been active in Australia. As with the movement internationally, in Australia it has sought to curb the drinking of alcohol. The temperance movement had some success in the early twentieth century, although from the Second World War its influence declined. Nevertheless, temperance organisations remain active today. History In Australia, the temperance movement began in the mid-1830s, promoting moderation rather than abstinence. The Independent Order of Rechabites has been active in promoting temperance in Australia from the 1870s to the present-day; the Band of Hope was also very active in many states, and in Sydney, the Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal was published between 1856 and 1861. In the 1880s, a significant number of hotels around the country were built as or converted to coffee palaces, where no alcohol would be served. With the waning of the influence of the temperance movement, most of these hotels either applied for li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Clement Leavitt
Mary Greenleaf Leavitt ( Clement; September 22, 1830 – February 5, 1912) was an educator and successful orator who became the first round-the-world missionary for the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU). Setting out on virtually non-stop worldwide tours over a decade, she "went to all continents save Antarctica," where she crusaded against alcohol and its evils including domestic violence; and advocated for women's suffrage and other equal rights such as higher education for women. In 1891 she became the honorary life president of the World's WCTU. Early life Mary Greenleaf Clement was born on September 22, 1830, in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, the daughter of Baptist minister Rev. Joshua Clement and his wife Eliza (Harvey) Clement. Her parents totally abstained from the use of alcohol and opposed slavery. Mary was the second of nine children; and, she was educated at Thetford Academy in Thetford, Vermont, and later at the Massachusetts State Normal School at West Newton, M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity." It plays an influential role in the temperance movement. Originating among women in the United States Prohibition movement, the organization supported the Eighteenth Amendment and was also influential in social reform issues that came to prominence in the Progressive Era. The WCTU was originally organized on December 23, 1873, in Hillsboro, Ohio, and, starting on December 26, Matilda Gilruth Carpenter led a successful campaign to close saloons in Washington Court House, Ohio. WCTU was officially declared at a national convention in Cleveland, Ohio, November 18–20, 1874. It operated at an international level and in the context of religion and reform, including missionary wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brettena Smyth
Bridgetena "Brettena" Smyth (''née'' Riordan; 1845 – 15 February 1898) was an Australian women's rights activist. She was also an entrepreneur, converting the family store into a drapery business and drug store after her husband's death. Biography Early life and marriage The daughter of John Riordan and Bridgetena Cavanagh, she was born in Kyneton. She was largely self-taught but an avid reader. In 1861, she married William Taylor Smyth, a greengrocer; the couple had five children. Career After her husband died in 1873, Smyth converted the family store into a drapery business and drug store. She also became an active member of the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society in 1885, and was elected as Secretary in July of 1888, however after a disagreement at a committee meeting in August, Smyth and a number of other members resigned. The next month she founded the Australian Women's Suffrage Society and became its president. An advocate of birth control, she lectured on co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Courtesan
A courtesan is a prostitute with a courtly, wealthy, or upper-class clientele. Historically, the term referred to a courtier, a person who attended the court of a monarch or other powerful person. History In European feudal society, the court was the centre of government as well as the residence of the monarch, and social and political life were often completely mixed together. Prior to the Renaissance, courtesans served to convey information to visiting dignitaries, when servants could not be trusted. In Renaissance Europe, courtiers played an extremely important role in upper-class society. As it was customary during this time for royal couples to lead separate lives—commonly marrying simply to preserve bloodlines and to secure political alliances—men and women would often seek gratification and companionship from people living at court. In fact, the verb 'to court' originally meant "to be or reside at court", and later came to mean "to behave as a courtier" and then ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Rennick
Elizabeth Harrison Rennick (born Elizabeth Harrison Skrymsher, c.1833 – 12 August 1923), was a British born, Australian suffragist who lived in Melbourne, Victoria. She was known as one of the pioneer suffragists in the Colony of Victoria, having hosted the 1884 meeting during which the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society was formed. She was elected its the first secretary and treasurer. She was forced to resign within the first year due to making controversial statements in a press interview. Biography Early life Rennick was born Elizabeth Harrison Skrymsher, in approximately 1833, in England. She married Charles Rennick in 1857. They had five children, and moved to Australia in 1879. Her daughter Marion was an exhibiting member of the Victorian Artists Society. Marion's second husband was James Barrett. Involvement in the women's suffrage movement While still living in England, Rennick was involved with the women's suffrage movement for many years. She was a member of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrietta Dugdale
Henrietta Augusta Dugdale ( Worrell; 14 May 1827 – 17 June 1918) was a pioneer Australian who initiated the first women's suffrage society in Australia. Non-conformist, provocative and quick-witted, her campaigning resulted in breakthroughs for women's rights in Australia. Early life and education Henrietta Augusta Worrell was born at St Pancras London on 14 May 1827, the second surviving daughter of John Worrell and Henrietta Ann (''née'' Austin). Her claim of a first marriage at 14 does not fit with her official marriage in 1848 to a merchant navy officer J. A. Davies, with whom she came to Australia in 1852. After Davies' death she married ship's captain William Dugdale in Melbourne in March 1853. They settled at Queenscliff where sons Einnim, Carl and Austin were born. Dugdale was a vegetarian. After separating from William Dugdale in the late 1860s, she moved to the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell where she remained until a few years before her death on 17 June 1918 at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
