Municipality of Ryde: election, 1873

Election date: 8 February 1873 (1)

Aldermen elected: (2)

Central Ward: Henry HEARD

East Ward: Gerard Edgar HERRING

West Ward: Edward TERRY

Aldermen who served during 1873-1874: (3)

Henry William COWELL; James DEVLIN (4); John FORSYTH; Frank GALLARD; Henry HEARD; James Shepherd HENRY; Gerard Edgar HERRING; Isaac SHEPHERD jnr (5); Edward TERRY; George WICKS

Mayor: (6)

Edward TERRY

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References:

(1)   Sydney Morning Herald 5 February 1873 p7. By the 1867 Municipalities Act s.40, one of the aldermen from each ward had to retire on the first Tuesday in February in each and every year, such retiring aldermen being those who had the smallest number of votes at the first election in their respective wards or who had been the longest in the Council 

(2)   Sydney Morning Herald 13 February 1873 p7. Poll to be officially declared 10 February 1873 Sydney Morning Herald 5 February 1873 p7

(3)   Council minutes for this year begin in November 1873. List of aldermen determined from meeting attendees eg Sydney Morning Herald 30 May 1873 p5 and Sydney Morning Herald 3 December 1873 p3

(4)   Sydney Morning Herald 21 August 1873 p3 reported that Isaac Shepherd jnr was informed by letter that he had been elected as alderman for Central Ward for Ald. Devlin who had resigned 

(5)   Sydney Morning Herald 21 August 1873 p3 reported that Isaac Shepherd jnr was informed by letter that he had been elected as alderman for Central Ward for Ald. Devlin who had resigned. In Sydney Morning Herald of 19 February 1874 p6, in quoting details of meeting held January, it listed a letter from Ald. Shepherd resigning his office as alderman for Central Ward

(6)   Ald. Terry was elected Mayor: Sydney Morning Herald 13 February 1873 p7

Compiled by Local Studies and Family History Librarian, City of Ryde Libraries, 2019