Robert Hoddle was a surveyor and artist. He was the first Surveyor-General of Victoria from 1851 to 1853. He was previously the Surveyor-in-Charge of the Port Phillip District from 1837 to 1851. He became Surveyor-General upon the proclamation of the Port Phillip District as the new Colony of Victoria within the British Empire in July 1851. He is especially recognized for the design and layout of the Hoddle Grid in 1837, the area which forms the Melbourne central business district (CBD) of Melbourne. He was also an accomplished artist and depicted scenes of the Port Phillip region and New South Wales. Hoddle was one of the earliest-known European artists to depict Ginninderra, the area now occupied by Canberra, Australia's National Capital.
Tamworth is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is represented by the Honourable Kevin Anderson MP of the National Party. In 2019 Anderson was sworn in as the Minister for Better Regulation & Innovation, with additional responsibility for Thoroughbred, Greyhound and Harness Racing codes in New South Wales.
Sir Edward Deas Thomson was a Scotsman who became an administrator and politician in Australia, and was chancellor of the University of Sydney.
Robert Campbell was an early opponent of penal transportation and an Australian politician, Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales. He was also an elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and later, the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Sydney City was an electoral district for the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales from 1856 to 1859, when it was split into the electorates of East Sydney and West Sydney.
Robert Campbell (1769–1846) was a merchant and politician in Sydney. He was a member of the first New South Wales Legislative Council. Campbell, a suburb of Canberra was named in his honour, as well as Campbell Island in the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.
The Treasurer of New South Wales, known from 1856 to 1959 as the Colonial Treasurer of New South Wales, is the minister in the Government of New South Wales responsible for government expenditure and revenue raising and is the head of the New South Wales Treasury. The Treasurer plays a key role in the economic policy of the government.
Robert Palmer Abbott was a politician and solicitor in colonial New South Wales, a member of both the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council.
John Campbell was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1856 and between 1861 and 1886. He was also a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1860.
John Richardson was an Australian pastoralist, store keeper and politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council on three occasions and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1856 and 1859.
Charles Hilton Dight was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Robert Burdett Smith was a solicitor and politician in colonial New South Wales, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and later the New South Wales Legislative Council.
The Electoral district of City of Sydney was an electorate of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
William Robert Campbell was an Australian politician.
George Campbell was an Australian politician.
Andrew Taylor Kerr was an Australian politician.
Edward Charles Close was an Australian politician.
Henry Edward Kater was an Australian politician.
Edward Broadhurst was an English-born barrister and politician in colonial New South Wales.
A by-election was held for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly electorate of Paddington on 12 January 1888 because William Trickett was appointed to the Legislative Council.
