Sir Frank Madden (29 November 1847 – 17 February 1921) was an Irish-born Australian politician who served as the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Madden was born in Cork to solicitor John Madden and Margaret Macoboy. His family migrated to Melbourne in 1857;Madden subsequently worked as a jackeroo near Skipton before becoming a solicitor. In 1874 he married Annie Eliza Francis,with whom he had seven children. He founded the firm of Madden &Butler and also served as president of the Law Institute from 1886 to 1887.
Madden was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly in 1894,representing Eastern Suburbs. He transferred to Boroondara in 1904,and was elected Speaker. He was knighted in 1911,and remained in the Speaker's chair until his defeat in 1917. Madden died in Kew in 1921. [1]
Madden was a close friend of the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon and walked home with Gordon from Melbourne to St Kilda (in the years before public trams were introduced to Melbourne) on the night before Gordon's suicide in June 1870. [2]
Sir Isaac Alfred Isaacs,was an Australian lawyer,politician,and judge who served as the ninth Governor-General of Australia,in office from 1931 to 1936. He had previously served on the High Court of Australia from 1906 to 1931,including as Chief Justice from 1930.
George Leake was the third Premier of Western Australia,serving from May to November 1901 and then again from December 1901 to his death.
Sir Rupert James Hamer,,also known as Dick Hamer,was an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981,and prior to that,the 18th deputy premier of Victoria from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the leader of the Victorian division of the Liberal Party of Australia (LPA) and a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (MLA) for the division of Kew.
Sir George Turner was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria,holding office from 1894 to 1899 and 1900 to 1901 as a liberal. After Federation he was invited by Edmund Barton to join the inaugural federal ministry,becoming the first Treasurer of Australia. He held office until 1904 under Barton and Alfred Deakin,then a few months later resumed office under George Reid. The government fell in 1905 and Turner retired from politics at the 1906 election.
Sir William Hill Irvine was an Australian politician and judge. He served as Premier of Victoria (1902–1904),Attorney-General of Australia (1913–1914),and Chief Justice of Victoria (1918–1935).
Sir John Bowser,Australian politician,was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London,the son of an army officer,and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Marsh and when he left school got a job with the Bacchus Marsh Express. As a young man he went to Scotland and worked on newspapers while studying at University of Edinburgh. Returning to Australia,he settled in Wangaratta,where he farmed and managed the Wangaratta Chronicle,which he eventually bought.
Sir John Madden,was an Australian judge and politician who was the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of Victoria,in office from 1893 until his death. He was acting governor on a number of occasions.
Sir Albert Arthur Dunstan,KCMG was an Australian politician who served as the 33rd premier of Victoria from 1935 to 1945,and previously as the 3rd deputy premier of Victoria for five days in March 1935. A member of the Country Party,now the National Party,his term as premier was the second-longest in the state's history and the longest of any third-party premier. He was the first person to hold the office of premier in its own right,and not an additional duty taken up by the Treasurer,Attorney-General or Chief Secretary.
Murray Hamilton Ross Thompson is a former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was the member for Sandringham in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1992 until his retirement in 2018. He is the son of former Liberal Premier of Victoria Lindsay Thompson.
Sir Robert Wallace Best,KCMG was an Australian lawyer and politician who served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives. He was a Senator for Victoria from 1901 to 1910,and then represented the Division of Kooyong in the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1922. Best served in cabinet in the second and third governments of Alfred Deakin. Before entering federal politics,he also served in the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1889 to 1901,where he was a government minister.
Edward John Russell was an Australian politician. He served as a senator for Victoria from 1907 until his death in 1925. He began his career in the Australian Labor Party (ALP),but was expelled during the 1916 split and became a Nationalist. He served as Vice-President of the Executive Council from 1918 to 1921 and was an assistant minister in the governments of Andrew Fisher and Billy Hughes. Following a nervous breakdown,his final years in the Senate were spent in mental institutions.
Sir Arthur Robinson KCMG was an Australian politician,at different times a member of the upper and lower houses of the Victorian parliament and a federal MP.
Sir William Crawford Haworth was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne,he was educated at state schools before attending the University of Melbourne and the Victorian College of Pharmacy. He became a pharmaceutical chemist,and served in the military 1940–44. In 1937,he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the United Australia Party member for Albert Park;he was the Victorian Minister for Health and Housing in 1945. He was defeated in 1945,but in 1949 was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Liberal member for the new seat of Isaacs. He held the seat until his retirement in 1969,when he received a knighthood. Haworth died in 1984.
William Slater was an Australian lawyer,politician and diplomat.
Sir Matthew Henry Davies was an Australian politician,who served as Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. He was also a leading figure in the Victorian Land Boom,ending with his bankruptcy in 1894 and subsequent trial on fraud charges.
Sir Edgar Stephen Tanner,CBE was an Australian sports administrator and Victorian politician. He was a former secretary-general and president of the Australian Olympic Federation and Chairman of the Australian Commonwealth Games Association.
Sir John Stoughton Bloomfield was an Australian politician.
Sir Albert Louis (Lou) Bussau was a farmer,a Victorian politician,and the Victorian Agent General in London.
Sir John Emanuel Mackey was an Australian politician. Mackey was born in Sandhurst to horse dealer David Mackey and Mary Ann Moore. He was largely self-educated,with only a brief and late formal education. He worked at a printery in Bendigo and then as a compositor for Mason,Firth and McCutcheon,a Melbourne law firm. He studied law at the University of Melbourne where he was resident at Ormond College,receiving a Bachelor of Law and a Master of Arts. In 1890 he was called to the bar,and he was also a lecturer at Melbourne University. In 1902 he married Stella Watson Bates,with whom he had five children.