John Earle (1865 - 1932) was an Australian politician. Born in Bridgewater, Tasmania in 1865, Earle first worked as a blacksmith’s apprentice and then as a miner, assuming official positions within the local branch of the Amalgamated Miners’ Association. After an active career as an organiser for the union, Earle helped found the Tasmanian Workers’ Political League (forerunner to the Australian Labor Party) in 1903, becoming the organisation’s first president. 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. He returned to office as Premier and Attorney-General in 1914, serving until his defeat at the polls in 1916. Earle resigned from the ALP over the conscription debate and was briefly a Senator in the Billy Hughes federal government.
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.
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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