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  John Earle at AllExperts
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work, Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.
Earle was employed by Charles II to make the Latin translation of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1649.
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  John Earle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
Earle's chief title to remembrance is his witty and humorous work, Microcosmographie, or a Peece of the World discovered, in Essayes and Characters, which throws light on the manners of the time.
Earle was employed by Charles II to make the Latin translation of the Eikon Basilike, published in 1649.
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 John Earle (Australian politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Earle (Born Bridgewater, Tasmania November 15, 1865; Died Kettering, Tasmania, February 6, 1932) was an Australian politician.
Earle resigned from the ALP over the conscription debate and was briefly a Senator in the Billy Hughes federal government.
Earle's cousin Alicia O'Shea Petersen was a prominent suffragist in Tasmania.
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 Earle, John (1865 - 1932) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
EARLE, JOHN (1865-1932), union organizer and premier, was born on 15 November 1865 at Bridgewater, Tasmania, son of Charles Staples Earle, a farmer of Cornish descent, and his Irish Catholic wife Ann Teresa, née McShane.
At the 1916 State conference, before Earle had committed himself to conscription, she had declared: 'In a fight like this it should be “one out all out”', and she was arguably of some influence in persuading her husband to adopt the liberal principle of 'equality of sacrifice'.
Earle died of cancer on 6 February 1932 at Oyster Cove, and was cremated in Melbourne.
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 John McEwen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John McEwen was appointed executive director of The New Jersey Theatre Alliance in Madison.
Sir John McEwen (March 29 1900 - November 20 1980), Australian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Australia, was born at Chiltern, Victoria, where his father was a pharmacist.
McMahon withdrew from the leadership ballot and John Gorton was elected.
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 Prime Minister - Sir John Grey Gorton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
John Grey Gorton was born on 9 September 1911, the second child of John Rose Gorton and Alice Sinn.
John had known that he had a sister called Ruth, but had been told that she had died as an infant.
John Gorton was a hardworking and ‘hands on’ minister who consulted ‘down the line’, made up his own mind, was always forceful and did not respect protocol.
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 John Earle Summary
Earle was born in 1600 or 1601 in York, where his father, Thomas Earles, was registrar to the archbishop's court.
Earle's willingness to forgive and reluctance to condemn human folly and vice reflect the measured and well-balanced personality of the author, who was praised by his friends for his attractive and pleasing manners.
Earle's general distrust of tradesmen and shopkeepers is to be expected in a Royalist clergyman, and his portraits of them tend to be the most stereotypical.
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 AAS Biographical Memoirs - Robert Gordon Menzies 1894-1978
The Australian National Research Council, the predecessor of the Australian Academy of Science, organized a symposium in Canberra in 1954 under the chairmanship of the highly respected Chief Justice of the Commonwealth, Sir Owen Dixon, at which the plight of the universities was discussed.
The Council appointed the distinguished Australian, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, F.R.S., as the Chancellor of the University and Professor R. Mills as its Deputy Chairman.
Australian astronomers were interested in the building of a large telescope in Australia to facilitate joint optical and radio observing, and because a large part of the southern sky contained important stellar objects not visible to northern hemisphere telescopes.
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 John Earle (Australian politician) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Born in (additional info and facts about Bridgewater, Tasmania) Bridgewater, Tasmania in 1865, Earle first worked as a flsmith’s apprentice and then as a miner, assuming official positions within the local branch of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association.
Earle entered the (additional info and facts about Tasmanian House of Assembly) Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1906 and led the first Tasmanian Labor government into office in 1909; a minority government which lasted a week.
Earle resigned from the ALP over the conscription debate and was briefly a Senator in the (additional info and facts about Billy Hughes) Billy Hughes federal government.
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 John Earle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1631 he was proctor and also chaplain to Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, then chancellor of the university, which gave him the rectory of Bishopston in Wiltshire.
In 1643 he was elected one of the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, but his sympathies with the king and with the Anglican Church were so strong that he declined to sit.
Early in 1643 he was chosen chancellor of Salisbury Cathedral, but he was soon deprived of this position as a "malignant." After the final Royalist defeat at the Battle of Worcester, Earle went abroad, and was made clerk of the closet and chaplain to Charles II.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Earle's health became so bad that he was unable to remain on board after August 1832.
In October 1826, in a dispatch to Earl Bathurst, he stated that Evans was proceeding to England by the same vessel conveying the dispatch and that he would "leave his address at your lordship's office".
The South Australian government sent a vessel with fresh supplies to Fowler's Bay, and, after a rest of some days, Eyre, Barter, one of the Europeans of the original party, and three aborigines with 11 horses, started on their long journey to King George's Sound.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography E   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
While leader of the opposition Earle addressed meetings in favour of concription and was expelled from the labour party.
He was awarded the Wollaston Fund by the Geological Society of London in 1877, the Clarke medal by the Royal Society of New South Wales in 1895, and the von Mueller medal by the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science in 1911.
His father, John Evans, Q.C., who was for five years a member of the house of commons, died when the boy was only a few months old, and his education was directed by his mother.
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Joseph Aloysius Lyons (September 15, 1879 - April 7, 1939), Australian politician and tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants.
In 1909 Lyons was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
From 1914 to 1916 he was Treasurer (finance minister) and Minister for Education and Railways in John Earle 's Labor government.
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 Australian Politics - Beer drinking records and lost trousers
Another benefit of compulsory voting is that it forces Australians, for at least one minute every three years, to consider what they believe and express their beliefs accordingly.
The papers are full of politicians in bribery scandals, rorting their travel allowance, deceiving the public, or being exposed as the recipients of dubious superannuation schemes.
At the parliamentary level, Australian politicians have shown themselves to be masters of their craft when criticising others; however, they have been been abysmal when trying to sell a vision to the public.
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 Robert Menzies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Sir Robert Gordon Menzies (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia serving eighteen and a half years.
On 26 April 1939, following a period during which the Country Party leader, Sir Earle Page, was caretaker Prime Minister, Menzies was elected Leader of the UAP and was sworn in as Prime Minister.
He sent Australian troops to the Korean War and maintained a close alliance with the United States.
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The evidence concerning Australian discovery before the seventeenth century is so clouded with doubt that it has been asserted to be unworthy of credence.
The request was granted, a collier called the EARL OF PEMBROKE, 370 tons, was bought for 2,800 pounds, she was renamed the ENDEAVOUR BARK, and was re-fitted for the special service for which she was commissioned.
The second Governor of New South Wales, Captain John Hunter, who had commanded the SIRIUS with the First Fleet, was not appointed till more than a year after the departure of Phillip, and did not arrive in Sydney till September 1795.
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 Joseph Lyons   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
From 1914 to 1916 he was Treasurer (finance minister) and Minister for Education and Railways in John Earle's Labor government.
He succeeded Earle as Labor leader and in 1925 he was elected Premier, holding office until 1928.
Most politicians expected that he would soon be replaced by Menzies, who resigned from Cabinet in protest at the government's inaction.
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 Dictionary of Australian Biography L   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was not an outstanding politician either as a private member or as a minister, but he was an authority on constitutional subjects and thoroughly conversant with parliamentary usages.
Lane's brother John said that in spite of the privations it was the happiest time of his life.
In August Lang voyaged to England and on his arrival interviewed Earl Bathurst, the secretary of state for the colonies who directed that one-third of the estimated cost of the church should be advanced by the treasury and that Lang should be paid a salary of £300 a year.
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 physics - John McEwen
Sir John "Black Jack" McEwen (March 29 1900 - November 20 1980), Australian politician and 18th Prime Minister of Australia, was born at Chiltern, Victoria, where his father was a pharmacist.
Another key factor in McEwen's antipathy towards McMahon was hinted at soon after the crisis by journalist Alan Reid and it was finally confirmed years later by former Canberra lobbyist Richard Farmer, following the release of sealed Cabinet papers from the period.
McEwen's implacable oppposition forced McMahon to withdraw from the leadership ballot and opened the way for the successful campaign to promote the then little-known Senator and Education Minister John Gorton to the Prime Ministership with the support of a group led by Defence Minster Malcolm Fraser and Party Whip Dudley Irwin.
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 Index Ho-Hy
A St. John's neurologist, he is a senior medical academic and a recognized world leader in telemedicine and distance education.
The opposition coalition of the Liberals and the National Party failed to unseat the Labor Party from power in elections held in 1987, however, and Howard was defeated in his bid to retain his leadership of the Liberals in 1989.
A leading figure among Albanian communist politicians in Kosovo for decades, he was president of Kosovo's Assembly (1945-53, 1967-69) and of Kosovo's Executive Council (1945-63).
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John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair
John I Stanley of the Isle of Man
John II Stanley of the Isle of Man
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 John Earle (Australian politician) at AllExperts
John Earle (Born Bridgewater, Tasmania November 15, 1865; Died Kettering, Tasmania, February 6, 1932) was an Australian politician and the first Labor Premier of Tasmania.
Earle first worked as a flsmith's apprentice and then as a tin-miner and prospector.
Earle entered the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1906 and led the first Tasmanian Labor government into office in 1909; a minority government which lasted a week.
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 Federation - Australia's Prime Ministers, part 2
However, consider this about Whitlam: he was the first politician to realise the importance, in a policy sense, of the problems thrown up by the post-war urban sprawl.
He was a former Labor politician who switched to the conservatives, largely under the influence of his wife, the formidable Dame Enid.
She was the much better politician, although Lyons had the misfortune to be prime minister during the Depression of the 1930s.
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 Search Results for Menzies - Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
On John Curtin's death in July 1945, he was succeeded as prime minister by another ALP stalwart, Joseph Benedict (Ben) Chifley.
Since the Australian federation was formed, politics has generally been a contest between the Australian Labor Party (ALP), established in 1901, and a number of anti-Labor parties.
Australian statesman, coleader of the federal government (1923–29) in coalition with Stanley M. Bruce.
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 Joseph Lyons information - Search.com
Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September, 1879 – 7 April, 1939), Australian politician, tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants.
In 1909 Lyons was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
He is the only person in Australian history to have been Prime Minister, Premier of a State, and Leader of the Opposition in both the Federal Parliament and a State Parliament (although George Reid had served as as Premier of a colony before Federation).
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 Prime Minister - James (Jim) Scullin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He was also a regular at the study groups of the Catholic Young Men's Society, where he developed a thorough knowledge of the Rerum Novarum, the powerful social justice encyclical issued by Pope Leo in the 1890s.
The Australian Broadcasting Commission came into being under the Scullin administration and he insisted that Isaac Isaacs should be appointed as the first Australian-born Governor General - but the side-effects of the Depression overwhelmed most Labor plans for progress and reform.
Colegrove, John W., 'J.H. Scullin: Prime Minister in Adversity', BA Honours Thesis, Department of Government, University of Queensland, 1967.
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 Ogden, James Ernest (1868 - 1932) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
OGDEN, JAMES ERNEST (1868-1932), miner, unionist and politician, was born on 8 March 1868 at Durdidwarrah, near Geelong, Victoria, fourth son of Robert Ogden, miner and farmer, and his wife Hannah, née Fenby.
He became treasurer in the first Labor government of John Earle, which governed for a week in October 1909.
When Earle returned to power in April 1914, Ogden was at his side as chief secretary and minister for mines and labour until April 1916.
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 Sound Selections
Earle garnered some pre-release notoriety for the “John Walker’s Blues,” told from the perspective of American Taliban fighter John Walker.
Earle has the credibility to make such statements – he spent several years in a Federal penitentiary resulting from the drug habit he picked up in his youth.
Lucky for us, Earle is still looking for that peaceful moment and is bringing us along for the ride.
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 Standlijst collectie "Anglia"
John Wildman, plotter and postmaster : a study of the English republican movement in the seventeenth century / by Maurice Ashley.
Genealogy of the earls of Landaff, of Thomastown, county Tipperary, Ireland.
by John Neville Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence.
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 Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
Joseph Aloysius Lyons (September 15, 1879 - April 7, 1939), Australian politician and tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants.
From 1914 to 1916 he was Treasurer (finance minister) and Minister for Education and Railways in John Earle's Labor government.
Most politicians expected that he would soon be replaced by Menzies, who resigned from Cabinet in protest at the government's inaction.
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