Sir George Houston Reid was an Australian politician,diplomat and barrister who served as the fourth prime minister of Australia,from 1904 to 1905,holding office as the leader of the Free Trade Party. He previously served as the 12th premier of New South Wales from 1894 to 1899,and later the High Commissioner to the United Kingdom of Australia from 1910 to 1916.
Albert Bathurst Piddington KC was an Australian lawyer,politician and judge. He was a member of the High Court of Australia for one month in 1913,making him the shortest-serving judge in the court's history.
The 1901 Australian federal election for the inaugural Parliament of Australia was held in Australia on Friday 29 March and Saturday 30 March 1901. The elections followed Federation and the establishment of the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901. All 75 seats in the Australian House of Representatives,six of which were uncontested,as well as all 36 seats in the Australian Senate,were up for election.
Norman Kirkwood Ewing was an Australian lawyer,politician and judge. He was born in New South Wales and moved to Western Australia in the 1890s. He served in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1897 to 1901 and was elected to the Senate at the inaugural federal election in 1901. He resigned from the Senate in 1903 and moved to Tasmania in 1905,serving in the Tasmanian House of Assembly from 1909 to 1915. His last public role was as a judge on the Supreme Court of Tasmania from 1915 until his death in 1928.
John Haynes was a parliamentarian in New South Wales,Australia for five months short of thirty years,and co-founder (1880),with J. F. Archibald,of The Bulletin.
Stephen Scholey was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Sir Joseph Palmer Abbott,was an Australian politician,pastoralist and solicitor.
Edward Pulsford was an English-born Australian politician and free-trade campaigner.
Arthur Hill Griffith was a politician,teacher and patent attorney in New South Wales,Australia. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1894 until 1917 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a member of the Labor Party.
Sir John Bayley Darvall was an Australian barrister,politician and beneficiary of slavery. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1844 and 1856 and again between 1861 and 1863. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for three periods between 1856 and 1865. He held the positions of Solicitor General and Attorney General in a number of short-lived colonial governments.
Peter Faucett was an Australian barrister,judge and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1865. He held the position of Solicitor General in the first government of James Martin. He was a judge of the Supreme Court between 1865 and 1888 and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1888 and 1894.
The third Cowper ministry was the seventh ministry of the Colony of New South Wales,and third occasion of being led by Charles Cowper.
The Reid ministry was the 28th ministry of the Colony of New South Wales,and was led by the 12th Premier,George Reid. The title of Premier was widely used to refer to the Leader of Government,but was not a formal position in the government until 1920. Instead the Premier was appointed to another portfolio,usually Colonial Secretary but on this occasion Reid took the portfolio of Colonial Treasurer until July 1899 and then Attorney General.
Charles Hilton Dight was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
James Nixon Brunker was an Australian politician,Minister of Lands in the Parliament of New South Wales.
Robert Henry Levien,always known as Harry Levien was a solicitor and politician in New South Wales,Australia.
Robert George Dundas Fitzgerald was a New Zealand-born Australian politician.
John McLaughlin was an Irish-born Australian politician.
A by-election for the seat of Hartley in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 August 1894 because Joseph Cook had been appointed Postmaster General in the Reid ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested and four ministers were re-elected unopposed,James Brunker,Joseph Carruthers,Jacob Garrard (Sherbrooke) and James Young. A poll was required in Bathurst,Hartley,Singleton and Sydney-King however all were comfortably re-elected.
A by-election for the seat of Singleton in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly was held on 14 August 1894 because Albert Gould had been appointed Minister for Justice in the Reid ministry. Such ministerial by-elections were usually uncontested and four ministers were re-elected unopposed,James Brunker,Joseph Carruthers,Jacob Garrard (Sherbrooke) and James Young. A poll was required in Bathurst,Hartley,Singleton and Sydney-King however all were comfortably re-elected.
