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See also:DICKSON, See also:SIR See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES See also:ROBERT (1832–1901) , Australian statesman, was See also:born in See also:Plymouth on the 3oth of See also:November 1832. He was brought up in See also:Glasgow, receiving his See also:education at the high school, and became a clerk in the See also:City of Glasgow See also:Bank. In 1854 he emigrated to See also:Victoria, but after some years spent in that See also:colony and in New See also:South See also:Wales, he settled in 1862 in See also:Queensland, where he was connected with many important business enterprises, among them the Royal Bank of Queensland. He entered the Queensland See also:House of See also:Assembly in 1872, and became See also:minister of See also:works (1876), treasurer (1876–1879, and 1883–1887), acting premier (1884), but resigned in 1887 on the question of taxing See also:land. In 1889 he retired from business, and spent three years in See also:Europe before resuming See also:political See also:life. He fought for the introduction of Polynesian labour on the Queensland See also:sugar plantations at the See also:general See also:election of 1892, and was elected to the House of Assembly in that See also:year and again at the elections of 1893 and 1896. He became secretary for See also:railways in 1897, minister for See also:home affairs in 1898, represented Queensland in the federal See also:council of See also:Australia in 1896 and at the postal See also:conference at See also:Hobart in 1898, and in 1898 became premier. His energies were now devoted to the formation of an Australian See also:commonwealth. He secured the reference of the question to a See also:plebiscite, the result of which justified his anticipations. He resigned the premiership in November 1899, but in the See also:ministry of Robert Philp, formed in the next See also:month, he was reappointed to the offices of See also:chief secretary and See also:vice-See also:president of the executive council which he had combined with the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of premier. He represented Queensland in 'goo at the conference held in See also:London to consider the question of Australian unity, and on his return was appointed minister of See also:defence in the first See also:government of the Australian Commonwealth. He did not See also:long survive the accomplishment of his political aims, dying at See also:Sydney on the loth of See also:January 1901, in the midst of the festivities attending the inauguration of the new See also:state.
End of Article: DICKSON, SIR JAMES ROBERT (1832–1901)
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