Walter Thomas Coonan (1853 – 4 October 1926) was an Australian actor.
He was born in Hobart to gaol warder Thomas Coonan and Ann Birmingham. A solicitor before entering politics, he practised at West Wyalong and Waverley. He was married three times: firstly on 7 May 1879 to Harriett Elizabeth Hollingdale; secondly on 15 December 1901 to Rebecca Agnes Wales, whom he later divorced; and thirdly to Isabella Jane Peterson. None of these marriages produced children. In 1877 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Bogan, but he was defeated in 1880. He returned as the member for Forbes in 1882 and was re-elected in 1885, but did not contest the 1887 election. Coonan died in 1926. [1]
Helen Lloyd Coonan is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales from 1996 to 2011, representing the Liberal Party. She was a minister in the Howard government, serving as Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer from 2001 to 2004 and then as Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts from 2004 to 2007.
Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson was the first Premier of the Colony of New South Wales.
George Henry Hall, 1st Viscount Hall, PC, was a British Labour Party politician. He served as Secretary of State for the Colonies between 1945 and 1946 and as First Lord of the Admiralty between 1946 and 1951.
Canterbury is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales, currently represented by Sophie Cotsis of the Labor Party.
Balmain is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly of the Australian state of New South Wales in Sydney's Inner West. It is currently represented by Kobi Shetty of the Greens.
Colonel Hon. Frederic Courtenay Morgan was a Welsh Army officer and Conservative politician.
Walter Devereux, 10th Baron Ferrers of Chartley, created 1st Viscount Hereford, KG was an English courtier and parliamentarian.
Coonan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the seventh parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1872 to 1874. The 182 election was held between 13 February and 28 March 1872 with parliament first meeting on 30 April 1872. There were 72 members elected for 52 single member electorates, 6 two member electorates and 2 four member electorates. The maximum term of this parliament was 3 years. However the assembly was dissolved after 32 months. Henry Parkes was the premier for the duration of the parliament. The Speaker was William Arnold.
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly who served in the 27th parliament of New South Wales held their seats from 1925 to 1927. They were elected at the 1925 state election on 30 May 1925. The Speaker was James Dooley.
Walter Arthur Harrex Howarth was an Australian politician who represented the Maitland for the United Australia Party (1932—1945) and the Liberal Party (1945—1956). He was deputy leader of the New South Wales Liberal Party from 1946 to 1954.
The Protestant Independent Labour Party, alternatively spelt Protestant Independent Labor and sometimes known as the Protestant Labour Party, was a minor Australian political party that operated mainly in New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia in the 1920s and 1930s. It was formed by Walter Skelton in July 1923 as the Protestant Independent Labour Party. who had stood for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly district of Newcastle at the 1922 election, campaigning as a Protestant Independent Labour candidate, in which he was elected first of five members, receiving 25.19% of the vote. In 1925 he was re-elected to the Assembly under the Protestant Labour label, as the second of five members, receiving 17.70% of the vote. The party stood candidates in 12 of the 24 districts however Skelton was the only one elected, with the next highest candidate receiving 5.10% of the district vote.
Thomas Barker was an Australian businessman and politician who was an integral proponent of many of Sydney's earliest business, educational and political institutions. In his later years he was an appointed member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1853 and 1856. He was also an elected member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for one term from 1856 to 1858.
James Fallick was an Australian politician.
This is a list of members of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1851 to 1856. The 1851 Electoral Act increased the number of members in the Council to 54, 18 to be appointed and 36 elected. The initial appointments were made in October 1851. The Speaker was Charles Nicholson.
This is a list of candidates for the 1887 New South Wales colonial election. The election was held from 4 February to 26 February 1887.
Commander John Lamb was an English-born Australian naval officer, banker and politician. The son of Captain Edward Lamb of the East India Company and Eliza Buchanan, Lamb was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 10 September 1844. He had a distinguished career with the Royal Navy, beginning at age 11 on his uncle Captain William Buchanan's British Navy warship, the Leviathan. Lamb was noted for his role in several feats over the French and accepted the rank of retired naval commander in May 1846.
The 1880 New South Wales colonial election was for 108 members representing 72 electoral districts. The election was conducted on the basis of a simple majority or first-past-the-post voting system. In this election there were 29 multi-member districts returning 68 members and 43 single member districts. In the multi-member districts each elector could vote for as many candidates as there were vacancies. 14 districts were uncontested. There was no recognisable party structure at this election. The average number of enrolled voters per seat was 1,549 for a country seat and 2,361 for an urban one, ranging from East Maitland (966) to Bourke (3,478).
The Bogan, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1859 and abolished in 1894.
Forbes, an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of New South Wales was created in 1880 and abolished in 1894.