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.
Richard Edward O'Connor was an Australian politician and judge.
Sir James Robert Dickson,was an Australian politician and businessman,the 13th Premier of Queensland and a member of the first federal ministry.
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).
Rippon Lea Estate is a heritage-listed historic house and gardens located in Elsternwick,Melbourne,Victoria,Australia. It is in the care of the National Trust of Australia. It was added to the Australian National Heritage List on 11 August 2006..
Sir William Austin Zeal was an Australian railway engineer and politician,Senator for Victoria in the Parliament of Australia.
Sir Harry Sutherland Wightman Lawson KCMG,was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Victoria from 1918 to 1924. He later entered federal politics,serving as a Senator for Victoria (1929–1935) and briefly as a minister in the Lyons Government. He was a member of the Nationalist Party until 1931,when it was replaced with the United Australia Party.
Sir Richard Chaffey Baker was an Australian politician. A barrister by trade,he embarked on a successful career in South Australian colonial politics,serving as Attorney-General of South Australia from 1870 to 1871 and President of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1893 to 1901 before switching to federal politics after federation. He served as the inaugural President of the Australian Senate from 1901 to 1906. A noted federalist,he was the son of one-time Premier of South Australia John Baker.
Sir Josiah Henry Symon was an Australian lawyer and politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 1901 to 1913 and Attorney-General of Australia from 1904 to 1905.
This is a list of the members of the Australian Senate in the First Australian Parliament,which was elected on 29 March 1901. There were 36 senators in this initial parliament. Terms were deemed to start on 1 January 1901. In accordance with section 13 of the Constitution,the Senate resolved that in each State the three senators who received the most votes would sit for a six-year term,finishing on 31 December 1906 while the other half would sit for a three-year term,finishing on 31 December 1903. The process for filing of casual vacancies was complex,with an initial appointment followed by an election. The status of political parties varied,being national,State based,and informal.
Sir Charles Kinnaird Mackellar was an Australian politician and surgeon. He served in the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1885 to 1925,with the exception of a period of 50 days in 1903 when he filled a casual vacancy in the Senate. He was the father of the noted poet Dorothea Mackellar.
Sir Thomas Thomson Ewing KCMG was an Australian politician. He began his career in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1885–1901) before winning election to the Division of Richmond at the inaugural 1901 federal election. He held ministerial office in the second Deakin Government as Vice-President of the Executive Council (1905–1906),Minister for Home Affairs (1906–1907),and Minister for Defence (1907–1908).
A political family of Australia is a family in which multiple members are involved in Australian politics,particularly electoral politics. Members may be related by blood or marriage;often several generations or multiple siblings may be involved.
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.
Robert Reid was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Leven,Fife,he migrated to Australia,arriving Hobson's Bay on the Ralph Waller from Liverpool,7 April 1855,the ship having struck an iceberg near the Island of Desolation. He worked in the retail trade before becoming a businessman.
This article provides information on candidates who stood for the 1903 Australian federal election. The election was held on 16 December 1903.
Sir Alexander Perceval Matheson,3rd Baronet was a Senator for Western Australia (1901–1906) and member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (1897–1901). He was born in London and arrived in Australia in 1894 during the Western Australian gold rush,returning to England following the end of his Senate term. He was the son of Scottish MP Sir Alexander Matheson,1st Baronet,and succeeded to the baronetcy in 1920.
Sir Archibald Michie,was an English-born Australian lawyer,journalist,Agent-General,Attorney-General of Victoria and politician.
Frederick James Sargood was a merchant and politician in colonial Victoria,a member of the Victorian Legislative Council and Victorian Legislative Assembly.
Sargood is a surname. People with the surname include:
