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Adolphus Taylor

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20: 90:, having raised his fare by lecturing on "The Iron Hand in Politics" and selling his stamp collection. He took "his wife, his mother, a cockatoo, a parrot and a magpie" to England and won his own case, although he then refused to accept the damages on the basis that they would come out of the taxpayers pockets rather than Barton's. 74:'s appointment as a Minister for Public Instruction in 1883 was unconstitutional, forcing Reid to stand for a by-election, which he lost. His emotional and often drunken harangues of the House led to frequent expulsions and as a result of being suspended twice in a row for a week by the Speaker, 468: 70:
in 1882, pushing the longtime popular hero, Sir John Robertson, into second place. He became an expert in parliamentary procedure and constitutional law, and established that
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in 1890 but did not stand for the 1891 election, following widespread criticism of his delayed report of the rape of his 12-year-old maid servant by clerical imposter,
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and was educated at the local Church of England School and became a teacher in Mudgee by 1875. He joined the New South Wales Permanent Artillery as a
132:, where he died, survived by his wife, Rosetta Nicholls, who he had married in 1885. He was buried at Rookwood Anglican Cemetery on 20 January 1900. 503: 513: 493: 361: 176: 498: 440: 432: 428: 385: 369: 331: 395: 483: 163: 30:(14 June 1857 – 18 January 1900) was an Australian journalist and populist politician, active in New South Wales the 1880s and 1890s. 128:
Alcoholic and probably neurosyphilitic, in 1898, aged 45, Taylor was admitted to the Hospital for the Insane in the Sydney suburb of
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W.B. Melville recorded of Taylor, "He could discern the weaknesses of his contemporaries, he could not cure his own".
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Taylor - "a lanky youth, dressed in a torn coat that hang from his ears" - won a surprise victory in the seat
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Their Fiery Cross of Union. A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation, 1889-1914
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Their Fiery Cross of Union. A Retelling of the Creation of the Australian Federation, 1889-1914
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In April 1887, Taylor resigned from Parliament so that he could be appointed examiner of
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in 1890 and 1891, and he returned to edit it in 1894. In 1892 he edited a
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Reputed the illegitimate son of a gentleman father, Taylor was born in
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Rookwood Anglican Cemetery. Anglican Section 4, Row 20, Grave 4777
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for "insubordination" in 1878. He then joined or returned to the
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Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
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"Taylor, Adolphus George (1857 - 1900)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University
ISBN
978-0-522-84459-7
ISSN
1833-7538
OCLC
70677943
"Mr Adolphus George Taylor (1857-1900)"

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