Batman's Hill was named after which leading member of the Port Phillip Association?
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Batman's Hill Batman's Hill in Melbourne, Australia was named for the Vandemonian adventurer and grazier John Batman. Now removed, the 18 metre high hill was located to the south of today's Collins Street and Southern Cross railway station, and is the site of a steel marker the same height as the original hill.
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John Batman John Batman (21 January 18016 May 1839) was an Australian grazier, entrepreneur and explorer. He settled in the north-east of the Van Diemen's Land Colony in the 1820s, and later as a leading member of the Port Phillip Association he led an expedition which explored the Port Phillip Bay area on the Australian mainland with a view to establishing a new settlement there. He is best known for his role in the founding of the settlement on the Yarra River which became the city of Melbourne, eventual capital of the new Colony of Victoria, and one of Australia's largest and most important cities.
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Charles Hervey Bagot Charles Hervey Bagot (17 April 1788 – 29 July 1880), often referred to as "Captain Bagot", was an Irish-born South Australian pastoralist, mine owner and parliamentarian, and was the ancestor of a number of notable South Australian citizens.
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Corlette, New South Wales Corlette is a suburb of the Port Stephens local government area in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia. It is located just west of Nelson Bay on the shores of Port Stephens. It was named after Captain James Corlette who skippered the 63 t cutter "Lambton" which was the first privately owned local vessel. The Corlette was first used to ship timber and wool out of Port Stephens in 1816. While property values throughout the suburb average around A$475,000, in the most affluent areas on the shores of Salamander Bay individual sale prices of $3.7 million have been realised.
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Phillip Lynch Sir Phillip Reginald Lynch KCMG (27 July 1933 – 19 June 1984) was a Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia.
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Foster Fyans Foster Fyans (1790–1870), soldier, penal administrator and public servant, was acting commandant of the second convict settlement at Norfolk Island, the first police magistrate at Geelong, and commissioner of crown lands for the Portland Bay pastoral district in the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.
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Frank Hill (Australian politician) Francis Hill (5 August 1883 – 11 July 1945) was an Australian politician and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly between 1941 and his death. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party.
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Fred Lowry Thomas Frederick "Fred" Lowry (1836 – 30 August 1865) was an Australian bushranger and member of the Frank Gardiner–Ben Hall gang. Born near Fish River in New South Wales, he was a stockman before taking to bushranging, mainly in and around the Blue Mountains. Throughout 1862 and 1863, Lowry was involved in shootings, an escape from prison, and robberies, including the bail up of the Mudgee Mail which earned him and his companions £6,000, the largest haul in bushranging history since the Lachlan Gold Escort robbery the previous year. In August 1863, Lowry was cornered by police inside a hotel outside Goulburn and engaged them in a gun battle, during which he was fatally shot in the throat. Before losing consciousness, he told the policemen, "Tell 'em I died game!" It is for these iconic last words that Lowry is chiefly remembered.
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George Hill (Australian politician) George Hill (25 March 1802 – 19 July 1883) was an Australian politician.
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Mum Shirl Colleen Shirley Perry Smith AM MBE (22 November 1924 – 28 April 1998), better known as Mum Shirl, was a prominent social worker and Aboriginal Australian humanitarian and activist committed to justice and welfare of Aboriginal Australians. She was a founding member of the Aboriginal Legal Service, the Aboriginal Medical Service, the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the Aboriginal Children’s Service and the Aboriginal Housing Company in Redfern, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. During her lifetime she was awarded an Australian National Living Treasure
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Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park The Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park is a protected marine national park located in the vicinity of the bay of Port Phillip, between the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, in Victoria, Australia. The 3580 ha marine park comprises six separate sites located approximately 60 km south-west of Melbourne and stretches along 40 km of coastline of Victoria.
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Charles Lumley Hill Charles Lumley Hill (1840 – 28 October 1909) was a pastoralist, businessman and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
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Peter Bonsall-Boone Peter "Bon" Bonsall-Boone {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} ( 1938 – 19 May 2017) was an Australian LGBT rights activist. He was a foundation member of the Campaign Against Moral Persecution (CAMP) and participated in the first Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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Jim Brown (New South Wales politician) James Hill Brown (19 March 1918 – 17 January 1999) was an Australian politician, elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
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Captain Starlight Henry Arthur "Harry" Readford (sometimes spelt "Redford" in Queensland) (December 1841 – 12 March 1901), was an Australian bushranger.
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Alfred Ross (Australian politician) Alfred Ross (3 November 1816 – 18 July 1896) was a British merchant, banker and politician in colonial Victoria (Australia), a member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
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List of mayors of Port Phillip This is a list of the mayors of the City of Port Phillip local government area, Melbourne, Australia. The City of Port Phillip was formed in 1994 with the amalgamation of the City of Port Melbourne, City of South Melbourne and the City of St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.
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A. Geoffrey Lee A. Geoffrey "Geoff" Lee AM OAM (1929-2008) served as the International Commissioner of Scouts Australia, as well as the Vice-Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Scout Committee and then Vice Chairman of the Lord Baden-Powell Society Management Committee, and played a major role in the success of the 16th World Scout Jamboree.
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Captain Thunderbolt Frederick Wordsworth Ward (1835 – 25 May 1870), better known by the self-styled pseudonym of Captain Thunderbolt, was an Australian bushranger renowned for escaping from Cockatoo Island, and also for his reputation as the "gentleman bushranger" and his lengthy survival, being the longest roaming bushranger in Australian history.
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Bruce Skeggs Bruce Albert Edward Skeggs {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (11 October 1932 – 21 March 2013) was a longstanding Australian Victorian Parliamentarian who was equally famous for his career as a race-caller. He was a Liberal member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from 1973 to 1982, representing Ivanhoe. He was the Liberal member of the Legislative Council from 1988 to 1996, representing Templestowe Province.
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Matthew Charlton Matthew Charlton (15 March 1866 – 8 December 1948) was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the House of Representatives from 1910 to 1928, representing the New South Wales electorate of Hunter. He was leader of the Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1922 to 1928. Prior to entering federal politics, he had been a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1903 to 1910.
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Rowland Broadhurst Hill Rowland Broadhurst Hill was an Australian politician.