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	Thomas McIlwraith - Definition, explanation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Sir Thomas McIlwraith KCMG (1835-1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland.
		Thomas McIlwraith was born in Ayr, Scotland in 1835.
		Musgrave died in October and McIlwraith petitioned the new Colonial Secretary Lord Knutsford, to allow the Queensland government to be consulted on the choice of Governor.
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	Thomas McIlwraith -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Sir Thomas McIlwraith (additional info and facts about KCMG) KCMG (1835-1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial (The study of government of states and other political units) politics in (A state in northeastern Australia) Queensland.
		Thomas McIlwraith was born in (A port in southwestern Scotland) Ayr, (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts) Scotland in 1835.
		The McIlwraith government divided Queensland into (The government of a local area) local government shires and assisted in establishing a (The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office) postal service through the Torres Straight.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/thomas_mcilwraith1.htm (993 words)

	McIlwraith, Sir Thomas (1835 - 1900) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online
		McILWRAITH, Sir THOMAS (1835-1900), premier and capitalist, was born on 17 May 1835 at Ayr, Scotland, brother of John McIlwraith.
		McIlwraith first proposed a land-grant railway from Roma to the Gulf of Carpentaria when minister for works in the 1874 Macalister government and elaborated it when premier in 1881.
		McIlwraith also underestimated the political power of the northern electorates whose seaport residents objected to their hinterlands being drained into Brisbane, while working-class voters feared that land-grant railways would be built by coolies.
	www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A050186b.htm (2567 words)

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		In December 1880 he joined the first Thomas McIlwraith government as postmaster-general but resigned in August 1883.
		When Samuel Griffith came into power in November 1883, Morehead was appointed leader of the opposition and held this position for some years.
		McIlwraith became premier again in June 1888 with Morehead as colonial secretary, and when McIlwraith resigned in November, Morehead succeeded him as premier and colonial secretary.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Boyd_Morehead (300 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Mc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		In January 1822 the governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane (q.v.), invited Macarthur to become a magistrate, but the two judges, John Wylde and Barron Field (q.v.), wrote to Brisbane questioning the advisability of this in view of the part taken by Macarthur in the rebellion.
		McIlwraith had been made a K.C.M.G. in 1882 and in 1884 visited Great Britain, where he was given the freedom of his native town, and Glasgow university conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. McIlwraith temporarily retired from politics in 1886 but in 1888 was elected for Brisbane North.
		McIlwraith protested on behalf of his government, and the matter was only settled for the time being by the voluntary retirement of Sir Harry Blake.
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogMc.html (20601 words)

	McIlwraith, Thomas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		McIlwraith, Thomas, businessman, ornithologist (b at Newton upon Ayr, Scot 25 Dec 1824; d at Hamilton, Ont 31 Jan 1903).
		McIlwraith came to Canada in 1853 and became a successful Hamilton businessman and alderman.
		He was one of 25 founders of the prestigious American Ornithologists' Union and served on its council.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0004915 (126 words)

	Canadian publisher University of Toronto Press Online Book Catalogue
		In Looking for Old Ontario, Thomas McIlwraith shows that many destinations are closer at hand than one might imagine, and invites travellers to rediscover familiar countryside landmarks by 'reading' them as chapters in a rich historical narrative.
		McIlwraith emphasizes ordinary features of the cultural landscape which communicate social meaning to the observant eye.
		THOMAS F. MCILWRAITH is a professor, Department of Geography at Erindale College, University of Toronto.
	www.utppublishing.com /pubstore/merchant.ihtml?pid=6916&lastcatid=163&step=4 (603 words)

	Journal of Canadian Studies: [Inventing the Loyalists: the Ontario Loyalist tradition & the creation of usable ...
		As McIlwraith points out, it is regrettable that the ordinary is often taken for granted because routine features of the human environment provide insights into the way in which people interacted with their environment.
		McIlwraith's ideological position is not explicit but it is clear that his sympathies are with those whose lives and accomplishments usually go unmentioned.
		He sheds new light on well-known aspects of the province's past, such as the obsession with property; on some nineteenth-century grave markers, the deceased are identified not only by name but also by the lot and concession number of their holdings.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3683/is_199901/ai_n8844662 (1429 words)

	Overview of Sir Thomas McIlwraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		McIlwraith advocated economic development through borrowing, building a railway infrastructure and encouraging immigration.
		McIlwraith was eventually vindicated and returned as Premier in March 1893.
		His career was finally ended by a banking scandal in 1896 and McIlwraith, who had returned to Britain due to ill-health, was unable to defend himself and forced to retire.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst3279.html (366 words)

	Samuel Griffith Summary
		He was Attorney-General, Minister for Education and Minister for Works, and became leader of the liberal party in 1879.
		His great enemy was the conservative leader Sir Thomas McIlwraith, whom he accused (correctly) of corruption.
		Griffith became Premier in 1883, holding office until 1888, and was knighted in 1886.
	www.bookrags.com /Samuel_Griffith (1217 words)

	Overview of Thomas McIlwraith (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Born at Newton-on-Ayr and educated in Edinburgh, McIlwraith emigrated to Canada in 1853, settling in Hamilton (Ontario) where he managed the gas works.
		In 1871 he began in trade on his own account and was successful becoming a Director of several banks and insurance companies.
		The McIlwraith Field Naturalists, an environmental club based in London (Ontario), which was established in 1864 was later renamed in his honour.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81 /scotgaz/people/famousfirst3297.html (171 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography Sa-Sp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		He married Emma, daughter of Thomas Rippon, chief cashier in the Bank of England, and Frederick Thomas Sargood was their eldest child.
		He supported Sir Thomas McIlwraith (q.v.) in his action with regard to the annexation of New Guinea, and suggested the inter-colonial conference which was held at Sydney in November 1883.
		Her great-grandfather, Piers Simpson, R.N., was associated with Sir Thomas Mitchell (q.v.), and her maternal grandfather, the Marquis de Lauret, settled at Goulburn some 50 years before her birth.
	gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogSa-Sp.html (21493 words)

	ipedia.com: Samuel Griffith Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		He was Attorney-General, Minister for Education and Minister for Works, and became leader of the liberal party in 1879.
		His great enemy was the conservative leader Sir Thomas McIlwraith, whom he accused (correctly) of corruption.
		Griffith became Premier in 1883, holding office until 1888, and was knighted in 1886.
	www.ipedia.com /samuel_griffith.html (683 words)

	Dictionary of Australian Biography F (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		In 1878, however, he was associated with Andrew and Thomas McIlwraith (q.v.) of Queensland in sending the first successful cargo of frozen meat to England in the Strathleven.
		Fison was six feet in height, "a big burly man, powerfully and heavily built, with a jolly good-humoured face, a bluff almost jovial manner, tender-hearted but bubbling over with humour, on which the remembrance of his clerical profession, as well as his deep, absolutely unaffected piety, perhaps imposed a certain restraint".
		The governor, Sir Thomas Brisbane (q.v.), was most favourably impressed by Forbes, and took occasion in his dispatches of 1 July and 12 August 1824 to mention that "since the arrival of the chief justice the state of the Colony has assumed a new tone".
	www.gutenberg.net.au /dictbiog/0-dict-biogF.html (20904 words)

	MSN Encarta - Further Reading - Ontario (province, Canada)
		An entertaining guide to the history, geography, art, and culture of Canada's most populous province.
		McIlwraith, Thomas F. Looking for Old Ontario: Two Centuries of Landscape Change.
		The author shows how the most ordinary features of the cultural landscape can communicate social meaning in this extensively illustrated guidebook to familiar Ontario landmarks.
	encarta.msn.com /readings_761577989/Ontario_(province_Canada).html (186 words)

	USM de Grummond Collection - MOLLIE HUNTER PAPERS
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		Maureen Mollie Hunter McIlwraith, whose pen name is Mollie Hunter, was born in Longniddry, East Lothian, Scotland, on June 30, 1922.
		She attended Preston Lodge School in East Lothian, and married Thomas McIlwraith in 1940.
	www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/hunter.htm (659 words)

	History of Anthropology at University of Toronto
		The University of Toronto appointed Thomas McIlwraith (1899-1964) as Lecturer in Anthropology in 1925, and this became the pivotal point in the formation of a department devoted to anthropology in Toronto.
		A more likely alternative to this story is that Fortune had actually challenged McIlwraith to a contest of identifying artifacts in the ROM, both men having had museum backgrounds.
		In 1964, a major change occurred when Tom McFeat, formerly of the National Museum of Man in Ottawa, was hired to replace the late Professor McIlwraith as department Chair and continued in that capacity until 1970.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /anthropology/history.htm (2493 words)

	H-Net Review: Adam M. Sowards on North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, eds.
		Edited by Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, this book demonstrates the vital role North American places played in shaping historical forces.
		Although their inclusion is an important aspect of the book and encourages American readers to think beyond their usual parochialism, the essays and their content are less likely to find an audience in most survey courses.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=89321033965404 (1000 words)

	Articles - Thomas Joseph Byrnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Thomas Joseph Byrnes (11 November 1860â“27 September 1898) was Premier of Queensland from April 1898 until his death, having previously served in several ministerial positions in his parliamentary career.
		Byrnes was born in Spring Hill to Irish parents on 11 November 1860.
		Sir Thomas McIlwraith appointed him as Attorney-General in the Continuous Ministry, and when Hugh Nelson stepped down as Premier, Byrnes, the youngest member of the Ministry by a large margin, became Premier.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Thomas_Joseph_Byrnes?mySession=f89f592ef2bebf709a8385dc7dc4d72c (220 words)

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		religion = Calvinist }} Sir Thomas McIlwraith KCMG (17 May 1835 – 17 July 1900) was for many years the dominant figure of colonial politics in Queensland.
		The McIlwraith government divided Queensland into local government shires and assisted in establishing a postal service through the Torres Strait Islands.
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	Thomas McIlwraith, Regina Louie, Angela Dennis and Sally Havard (Iskut First Nations) - Talking to the animals: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Thomas McIlwraith, Regina Louie, Angela Dennis and Sally Havard (Iskut First Nations) - Talking to the animals: Tahltan-language animal stories and forms of address.
		Thomas McIlwraith, Regina Louie, Angela Dennis and Sally Havard
		The project also satisfies community interest in preserving Iskut stories and the voices of elders telling those stories.
	sapir.ling.yale.edu:16080 /~elf/mcilwraith.html (154 words)

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		Incorporated on December 18, 1854 under the name of the International Mining and Manufacturing Company, the charter for this company stated that they owned the "rights to explore for asphalt beds, oil and salt springs, and to manufacture products from these sources for various uses".
		Charles took samples from his gum beds to a Dr. Thomas Antisell, a New York chemist, and to Thomas McIlwraith, the manager of Hamilton Gas Company.
		McIlwraith was excited to find that when they "gasified the asphalt, instead of coal, the product was suitable for lighting oil".
	collections.ic.gc.ca /blackgold/people/trippstory.html (679 words)

	Articles - Premiers of the Australian states (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-26)
		Colonial politics were commonly regarded as parochial, corrupt and cynical, and in many cases they were.
		Victorian Premier James Munro, for example, fled the colony to escape his creditors in 1890, and Queensland Premier Sir Thomas McIlwraith was notoriously corrupt.
		The rise of Labor forced the colonies to move towards a two-party system of Labor versus non-Labor, although state politics remained more personalised and less ideological than national politics for many years.
	www.centralairconditioners.net /articles/Premiers_of_the_Australian_states (694 words)

	William Pattison
		William Pattison, businessman, grazier, butcher, proprietor, miner and politician, was a member of the original syndicate which was formed in 1882 to mine Ironstone Mountain (later renamed Mount Morgan) and was a shareholder in the company which was formed four years later.
		In 1882, the Morgan brothers, Frederick, Edwin (Ned) and Thomas, together with William Pattison, William Knox D'Arcy and Thomas Skarratt Hall formed a syndicate to mine the gold-bearing oxidised ore from Ironstone Mountain.
		He was a member without portfolio and was later Colonial Treasurer for twelve months in the Government formed by Sir Thomas McIlwraith.
	www.mountmorgan.com /pattison.html (890 words)

	Maureen Mollie Hunter
		Maureen Mollie Hunter was born on June 30th in East Lothian, Scotland.
		She married Thomas McIlwraith in 1940, but continues to write under the pen name Mollie Hunter.
		Her books are published throughout the English-speaking countries and she was asked to deliver the May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture in 1975.
	www.childrensliteraturenetwork.org /birthbios/brthpage/06jun/630hunt.html (106 words)

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