Samuel walker griffith biography of william hill

  • Hill who was born in 1716 did not die until 1808.
  • Papers by author — The Samuel Griffith Society.
  • Honoured in life and death, the late Sir Samuel Walker Griffith was on 11th April buried amid eloquent evidences of sincere affection and.

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    Hon. Samuel Griffith’s Visit To Marburg & Rosewood

    Rosewood History
    Marburg History

    While I was compling the story about the Rosewood Hotel I discovered that the Hon. Samuel Walter Griffith, Judge, former Attorney General and then soon to be Premier of Queensland, visited Marburg and Rosewood on his western political tour in December 1882.

    It peaked my interest and I decided to look further into it. I was delighted to find a copy of an original document from that visit, which I have included at the end of this story about the politician’s visit. I hope it gives the descendants of the men who signed the document the same thrill as it gave me to see their handwriting.

    After having lunch at Baldrey’s Volunteer Arms in Ipswich on the 15th December 1882, Samuel Griffith and his accompanying party of M.L.A.’s proceeded to Marburg. They were Messrs. William Brookes, John Baptist Louis Isambert, Francis Beattie, John Macfarlane, Arthur Morley Francis and James Foote. Mes

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    Sir Edmund was a passionate politician. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in 1879, becoming Speaker of the House between 1883 and 1887. After losing the 1887 election, he became a member of the Legislative Council in the same year. 

    Barton endorsed Henry Parkes' call for Federation made at Tenterfield in 1889, in a speech he made at Lithgow, on 2 November, 1889. 

    At the Athenaeum Club in the early 1880s Barton met and conversed with the Tasmanian Attorney-General, Andrew Inglis Clark, a passionate spokesman for an American model of Federation. It was not, however, until Barton read reports in the press of the Tenterfield address Henry Parkes gave to a meeting in the Sydney Town Hall that he gave his full and unconditional commitment to Federation.

    In March 1891, Barton proposed his blueprint for Federation at the National Australasian Convention. He argued that an elected senate composed of State representatives would effectively balanc

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