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7 unusual facts about Edmund Barton


Birthday problem

An informal demonstration of the problem can be made from the list of Prime Ministers of Australia, of which there have been 27, in which Paul Keating, the 24th Prime Minister, and Edmund Barton, the first Prime Minister, share the same birthday, 18 January.

Edmund Barton

The quotation, which spread by email and social networks, includes a photograph of Barton and an extract from a speech which argues for equal treatment of immigrants conditional on their cultural assimilation, the loyalty to the Flag of Australia and the exclusive adoption of the English language in Australia.

In 1905, the Japanese government conferred the Grand Cordon, Order of the Rising Sun, and Sir Edmund was granted permission to retain and wear the insignia.

Francis Bertie Boyce

He was spokesman of a deputation which waited on Sir Edmund Barton, the prime minister, and he continued his efforts for it until it was founded on 24 May 1905.

George Coulthard

Independent witnesses said the decision was "close but fair", and was supported by the other umpire Edmund Barton, later to become Australia's first Prime Minister.

Nelson Illingworth

Illingworth did some architectural sculpture for buildings in Sydney, and a large number of portrait busts of notable men of his time such as Australia's first Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton and 'Father of Federation' Sir Henry Parkes.

Piesseville, Western Australia

However, the name clashed with a town in New South Wales (now little more than a historic gallery outside Kurri Kurri in the Hunter Region), so the town was renamed Barton in 1905 to honour Australia's first prime minister (1901-1903), Sir Edmund Barton.


Adrian Knox

Knox was one of six justices of the High Court to have served in the Parliament of New South Wales, along with Edmund Barton, Richard O'Connor, Albert Piddington, Edward McTiernan and H. V. Evatt.

Barton Government

It was led by Prime Minister Sir Edmund Barton, from 1 January 1901 until 24 September 1903, when Barton resigned to become one of the three founding judges of the High Court of Australia.


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