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William Lodewyk Crowther (Born Netherlands, April 15, 1817; Died Hobart, April 12, 1885). Australia Politician. Premier of TasmaniaDecember 20, 1878 to October 30, 1879. April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ... 1817 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Hobart is the capital city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ... April 12 is the 102nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (103rd in leap years). ... 1885 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Before the 1890s there was no formal party system in Tasmania. ... December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1878 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... October 30 is the 303rd day of the year (304th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 62 days remaining. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
}}Joseph Aloysius Lyons (15 September, 1879 – 7 April, 1939), Australianpolitician, tenth Prime Minister of Australia, was born in Stanley, Tasmania, the son of Irish immigrants.
Most politicians expected that he would soon be replaced by Menzies, who resigned from Cabinet in protest at the government's inaction.
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).
William Skirving who was secretary to the convention was a Scotchman, a man of good character, educated originally for the church.
Crowther (q.v.) government which followed could do little in the conditions of the period, and when it resigned in October 1879 Giblin realized that the only way to get useful work done would be to form a coalition ministry.
John's Australian Biographical Dictionary states that he was born on 20 July 1835, the Australian Encyclopaedia says 1836, the obituary notice in the Geographical Journal, "about the year 1847", and the Coolgardie Miner, at the time of his death, implied that the date was about 1820.
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