Theodore Hooke Hill (1855 – 8 November 1942) was an Australian politician.
He was born at Dungog to grazier George Snell Hill and Adelaide, née Hooke. He married Laetitia Elizabeth Canning. Around 1880 he joined the Bank of Australasia, managing the Rockhampton branch from around 1890 to around 1917. He supported new state movements in both Queensland and New South Wales and was active in the Rockhampton area. Having moved to New South Wales, he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1920 as a Progressive member for Oxley. As a member of the coalitionist faction of the party, he had joined the Nationalists by 1925. Hill retired in 1927. He died in Sydney in 1942. [1]
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, often called Major Mitchell, was a surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsular War. In 1827 he took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales. The following year he became Surveyor General and remained in this position until his death. Mitchell was knighted in 1839 for his contribution to the surveying of Australia.
Edward Granville Theodore was an Australian politician who served as Premier of Queensland from 1919 to 1925, as leader of the state Labor Party. He later entered federal politics, serving as Treasurer in the Scullin Labor government.
Freshwater is a large village and civil parish at the western end of the Isle of Wight, England. The southern, coastal part of the village is Freshwater Bay, named for the adjacent small cove. Freshwater sits at the western end of the region known as the Back of the Wight or the West Wight, a popular tourist area.
Sali Herman was a Swiss-born Australian artist, one of Australia's Official War Artists for the Second World War.
Matthew Charles Sing is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s. An Australian and Queensland representative, Sing played his club football for the Penrith Panthers, Sydney Roosters and North Queensland Cowboys in the National Rugby League (NRL) and for Hull F.C. in the Super League.
Wenona School is an independent, secular, day and boarding school for girls, located in the Sydney suburb of North Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia.
Leichhardt was an electoral district, located in the colony of New South Wales, Australia, and part of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly. The district was created for the July 1859 election, partly replacing the United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis in the present day central Queensland. It included the towns of Rockhampton and Emerald, the pastoral districts around the Leichhardt River in the Gulf of Carpentaria region and Port Curtis (Gladstone). It was abolished in December 1859 as a result of the separation of Queensland.
George Henry Gray was an Australian politician.
The Archer brothers were among the earliest European settlers in Queensland, Australia. They were explorers and pastoralists. Seven sons of William Archer, a Scottish timber merchant, they spent varying amounts of time in the colony of New South Wales, mainly in parts of what later became Queensland. A substantial number of locations in Queensland were either named by or for them. They were, in order of birth:
Cefn Cribwr is a village and community in Bridgend County Borough in south Wales. The village is located about 5 miles (8 km) from the centre of Bridgend town, and inbetween Bridgend and Pyle.
John MacFarlane or John Macfarlane may refer to:
Alfred Albert Edward Ernest Theodore Muswellbrooke Orlando Vassa Reid, nicknamed Alphabet Reid, was an Australian politician.
Neville Thomas Eric "Nev" Hewitt was an Australian politician. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
Oxley is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales.
William Archer was an English-born Australian politician.
William Parry Colborne was a member of the Queensland Legislative Council.
Henry John Bede Milford was a politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of both the New South Wales Legislative Assembly and the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
James Christian "Jens" Petersen was a builder and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
The Leichhardt Way is an Australian road route from Melbourne, Victoria to Rockhampton in Queensland. It has been designated by the Queensland Government as a State Strategic Touring Route.
Gil Wahlquist (1927–2012) was an Australian journalist and "pioneer organic wine producer" who was largely responsible for re-establishing the Mudgee wine industry and raising the international profile of the Australian wine industry in the 1970s.