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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Edmund Burke | Edmund Spenser | Edmund Hillary | Mischa Barton | Edmund Wilson | Edmund Husserl | Edmund Muskie | Edmund Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby | Edmund Barton | John Barton | Edmund the Martyr | Edmund Rubbra | Edmund Kirby Smith | Edmund Gosse | SS Edmund Fitzgerald | George Edmund Street | Edmund Kean | Edmund Francis Law | Edmund Campion | Barton | St Edmund Hall, Oxford | Edmund Sharpe | Edmund Blunden | Edmund | The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald | SS ''Edmund Fitzgerald'' | John Barton (theologian) | Joe Barton | Edmund White | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York |
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.
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.