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 James McCulloch,,British colonial politician,was the fifth Premier of Victoria.
William Clark Haines,Australian colonial politician,was the first Premier of Victoria.
Sir John O'Shanassy,KCMG,was an Irish-Australian politician who served as the 2nd Premier of Victoria. O'Shanassy was born near Thurles in County Tipperary,Ireland,the son of a surveyor,and came to the Port Phillip District in 1839. He went into business in Melbourne as a draper,and by 1846 he was rich enough to be elected to the Melbourne City Council and to become the founding chairman of the Colonial Bank of Australasia. By the 1850s he was a major landowner and one of the wealthiest men in the colony. He also became a recognised leader of the large Irish Catholic community.
Richard Heales,Victorian colonial politician,was the 4th Premier of Victoria.
Sir Charles Sladen,,Australian colonial politician,was the 6th Premier of Victoria.
James Goodall Francis,Australian colonial politician,was the 9th Premier of Victoria. Francis was born in London,and emigrated to Van Diemen's Land in 1847,where he became a businessman. He moved to Victoria in 1853 and became a leading Melbourne merchant. He was a director of the Bank of New South Wales and president of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce. He married Mary Ogilvie and had eight sons and seven daughters.
George Briscoe Kerferd,Australian colonial politician,was the 10th Premier of Victoria.
Sir Graham Berry,,Australian colonial politician,was the 11th Premier of Victoria. He was one of the most radical and colourful figures in the politics of colonial Victoria,and made the most determined efforts to break the power of the Victorian Legislative Council,the stronghold of the landowning class.
Allan McLean was an Australian politician who served as the 19th Premier of Victoria,in office from 1899 to 1900. He was later elected to federal parliament,where he served as a government minister under George Reid.
William Alexander Watt was an Australian politician. He served two terms as Premier of Victoria before entering federal politics in 1914. He then served as a minister in the government of Billy Hughes from 1917 to 1920,including as acting prime minister during World War I,and finally as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1923 to 1926.
Duncan Gillies,was an Australian colonial politician who served as the 14th Premier of Victoria.
Sir James Brown Patterson,was an Australian politician who served as premier of Victoria from 1893 to 1894.
George Alexander Elmslie was an Australian politician who served as the 25th and shortest serving Premier of Victoria,and the first Labor Premier.
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.
George Michael"Mick" Prendergast was an Australian politician who served as the 28th Premier of Victoria. He was born to Irish emigrant parents in Adelaide,but he grew up in Stawell,Victoria. He was apprenticed as a printer,and worked as a compositor in Ballarat,Sydney and Narrandera before settling in Melbourne in 1887. A member of the Typographical Association,he represented that union at the Melbourne Trades Hall,of which he was President in 1893.
Sir William Murray McPherson,KBE was an Australian philanthropist and politician. He was the 31st Premier of Victoria.
John MacGregor was a politician in colonial Victoria (Australia),and Minister of Mines.
James Philip Macpherson was an Australian politician and pastoralist in the colony of Victoria. He served as a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Nelson from 1887 until his death in 1891.
