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Category for people holding the office of Agent-General for the colony (pre-1901) or state (post 1901) of Victoria (Australia). Pages in category "Agents-General for Victoria" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total.
Sir Graham Berry, KCMG (28 August 1822 – 25 January 1904), [1] was an Australian colonial politician and 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.
The plaque of the Agent General for British Columbia in London. An agent-general (French: Délégué général or Déléguée générale [1]) is the representative in cities abroad of the government of a Canadian province or an Australian state and, historically, also of a British colony in Jamaica, Nigeria, Canada, Malta, South Africa, Australia or New Zealand and subsequently, of a Nigerian ...
Parliamentary agents are solicitors who are licensed (together with the firms they belong to) by the Houses of Parliament in the United Kingdom to draft, promote or oppose private bills. Private bills are a specific class of legislation promoted by organisations outside Parliament to obtain powers for themselves that differ from the general law.
He resigned from Parliament in August 1936 and was appointed Victorian Agent-General. [7] While in this position he represented Victoria at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth . He died in London from pernicious anaemia and cancer on 16 December 1937.
O'Loghlen's tenure as Premier prior to the 1883 election had been, as later described in the Adelaide Observer, a period of "muddle and confusion".It was "by general consent" and a longing "for peace and progress" that, after the election, the political factions led by James Service and Graham Berry joined forces to form a coalition of moderate conservatives and moderate liberals.
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The holdings, based on the records transferred from the Archives Division of the State Library of Victoria, grew through an active transfer program. A reading room in the Melbourne CBD was established and a regional repository to serve the Victorian Central Highlands Region was established at Ballarat in 1982.