The houses are named after Governor-Generals of the Union of South Africa: Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone, Sydney Buxton, 1st Earl Buxton and George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon.
Rothschild and Jourdain founded it as a breakaway group after egg collecting by members of the British Ornithologists’ Union, was denounced by Earl Buxton at a meeting of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Immediately after the election, the Legislative Council passed a resolution requesting the United Kingdom government to inaugurate responsible government, and the United Kingdom's response was establishing a Commission under Earl Buxton, a former Liberal minister.
Sydney | University of Sydney | Sydney Opera House | Sydney Swans | Sydney Roosters | James Earl Jones | Sydney Cricket Ground | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma | Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener | Sydney Conservatorium of Music | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis | Sydney Harbour Bridge | Earl | 1st United States Congress | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein | Earl of Derby | Sydney Airport | William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley | Earl Warren | University of Western Sydney | Earl of Pembroke | Sydney Symphony Orchestra | Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer | North Sydney | George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham | Earl of Warwick | Buxton |
Upon the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912, he asked Lord Loreburn, the Lord Chancellor, to appoint a commission of inquiry into the disaster.