Henry Edward King (9 June 1832 –5 February 1910) was a politician in colonial Queensland,Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland 1876 to 1883. [1]
King was born in Mount Coote,Limerick,Ireland,son of John Wingfield King and his wife Alicia,née Coote. [1]
King was member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Wide Bay 12 August 1870 to 13 July 1871 and from 4 October 1871 to 12 November 1873;for Ravenswood from 9 December 1874 to 14 November 1878 and for Maryborough from 15 November 1878 to 17 August 1883. [2] King was Secretary for Public Works and Mines in the Macalister Ministry from November 1874 to May 1876. Two months later he was chosen Speaker of the Assembly,and occupied the chair of the House till July 1883. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Maryborough at the 1888 colonial election. [3]
King died in South Brisbane,Queensland,on 5 February 1910 and buried in Toowong Cemetery. [4] He was survived by his wife,four sons and three daughters. [1]
Sir Thomas McIlwraith was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland. He was Premier of Queensland from 1879 to 1883,again in 1888,and for a third time in 1893. In common with most politicians of his era,McIlwraith was an influential businessman,who combined his parliamentary career with a prosperous involvement in the pastoral industry.
Boyd Dunlop Morehead was a politician in Queensland,Australia. He was Premier of Queensland from November 1888 to June 1890.
George Henry Thorn (junior) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly and a Premier of Queensland,Australia.
Arthur Macalister,was three times Premier of Queensland,Australia.
Charles Hardie Buzacott was an Australian journalist,publisher and politician.
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Sir Arthur Hunter Palmer was an Irish-Australian politician who served as the fifth Premier of Queensland,in office from 1870 to 1874. He later held ministerial office in Thomas McIlwraith's ministry from 1879 to 1881,before serving as President of the Queensland Legislative Council from 1881 until his death in 1898.
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This is a list of members of the 7th Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1873 to 1878,as elected at the 1873 colonial elections held between 4 November 1873 and 4 December 1873.
This is a list of members of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland from 1871 to 1873,as elected at the 1871 colonial elections held between 8 July 1871 and 6 September 1871 (due to problems of distance and communications,it was not possible to hold the elections on a single day).
William Henry Walsh J.P. was an Australian pioneer pastoralist or squatter and politician in early Queensland. He was a Member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 1859-1859,Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly 1865–1878,and a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council 1879–1888. He was the Queensland Minister of the Crown 1870–1873,Speaker in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 6 January 1874 to 20 July 1876.
John McMaster was an alderman and mayor of Brisbane,Queensland,Australia. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and a Member of the Legislative Council of Queensland.
Richard Bingham Sheridan was a Queensland public servant,liberal-oriented Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland and government minister.
Sir John Bramston,,was a politician in Queensland and a British colonial government administrator in Queensland and Hong Kong. He then served as Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies in London for 20 years.
William Miles was a politician in Queensland,Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Wide Bay was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Queensland.
His Honour the Honourable Ratcliffe Pring was a lawyer,politician and the first Attorney-General in colonial Queensland.
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