Lyne was unable to do so and returned his commission in favour of Edmund Barton, who became the first prime minister and led the inaugural government into and beyond the election.

Lyne returned his commission on 24 December and Hopetoun sent for Edmund Barton, the leader of the federal movement and the man everybody believed was entitled to the post.

Holder initially accepted, and was in Melbourne en route to Sydney to officially accept his ministry when he was convinced by Alfred Deakin to refuse Lyne and instead support Edmund Barton's claim to the premiership.

Lyne supported federation only at the last minute after long being a strong opponent and, as a result, he was unpopular with other leading colonial, pro-federation politicians including Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin.

" The Murder of King Edmund at Pucklechurch ", drawn by R. Smirke, published in Ashburton's History of England, 1793

* Edmund Wilson, To the Finland Station: A Study in the Writing and Acting of History, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1940..

* Royal Berkshire History: St. Edmund of Abingdon

The Society had just spent its book budget on a History of Fishes, and the cost of publication was borne by Edmund Halley ( who was also then acting as publisher of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society ): the book appeared in summer 1687.

These initial tests were inconclusive, and ape conservation expert Ian Redmond told the BBC that there was similarity between the cuticle pattern of these hairs and specimens collected by Edmund Hillary during Himalayan expeditions in the 1950s and donated to the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and announced planned DNA analysis.

( 1927 ) An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times: being the Early History of St Edmund Hall, Oxford: Clarendon Press, Reprinted 1968

( eds ) ( 1994 ) " St. Edmund Hall ", In: Victoria County History: A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 3: The University of Oxford, The Victoria history of the counties of England, Folkestone: Dawson for the University of London Institute of Historical Research, ISBN 0-7129-1064-6, p. 319-335.

He sat the History exam for Oxford University and was offered an interview at St Edmund Hall, but missed a place.

* William of Malmesbury: Historia Novella ( The Contemporary History ), Edited by Edmund King, Translated by K. R. Potter, Oxford University Press, 1999.

* Douglas Biggs, “ To Aid the Custodian and Council: Edmund of Langley and the Defense of the Realm, June-July 1399 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History, I ( 2002 ), pp. 125-144.

* Douglas Biggs, “’ A Voyage or Rather and Expedition to Portugal :’ Edmund of Langley in Iberia 1381 / 82 ,” Journal of Medieval Military History 7 ( 2009 ), pp. 57-74.

* Edmund Calamy-An Abridgement of Mr Baxter's History of His Life and Times

John J. O ' Connor and Edmund F. Robertson write in the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive:

In 1657 and 1658 the Seneca visited as diplomats, Dutch Colonial officials in New Amsterdam ( Edmund Bailey O ’ Callaghan and Berthonl Fernow, Eds., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York ( Albany: Weed, Parsons, 1881 ) NYCD, 13: 184

Edmund was officially remembered in Comber on Friday 14 September 2007 through the unveiling of an Ulster History Circle " Blue Plaque " in his honour.

* Oct 1887 – Dec 1887: Edmund John T Barton ( later author of the Jubilee History of Queensland )

* April 1903 – 1906: Edmund John T Barton ( later author of the Jubilee History of Queensland )

* Curtis, Edmund, A History of Ireland: From Earliest Times to 1922, Routledge ( 2000 RP ), ISBN 0-415-27949-6

Edmund Jephcott ), The Civilising Process: The History of Manners, Vol.

* Cody, Edmund R. History of the Coeur d ' Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart: Old Mission, Cataldo, Idaho: on the Union Pacific between Spokane and Wallace and on the Yellowstone Trail between Coeur d ' Alene and Kellogg.

Gustav Mützel ( December 7, 1839 – October 29, 1893 ) was a German artist, famous for his mammal and bird paintings, including the illustrations for the second edition of Alfred Edmund Brehm's Thierleben and Richard Lydekker's The Royal Natural History.

He was also joint author of The Pictorial History of England, and wrote books on Edmund Spenser and Francis Bacon.

biographies of Thomas Carlyle, John Milton, William Blake, and others ; The Age of Dryden ( 1895 ); a History of Italian Literature ; English Literature: An Illustrated Record ( with Edmund Gosse ); and many articles for encyclopaedias and the Dictionary of National Biography.

He, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle, and Edmund G. Ross defied their party and public opinion and voted against conviction.

His successor as Survey General of Prisons was another Royal Engineers officer, Major Edmund Henderson.

The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Edmund Henderson denied what happened.

Senators William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle, and Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who provided the decisive vote, defied their party and public opinion and voted against impeachment.

Senators William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, James W. Grimes, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle, and Edmund G. Ross of Kansas, who provided the decisive vote, defied their party and public opinion and voted against impeachment.

Edmund Henderson

Western Australia's first Comptroller General of Convicts, Edmund Henderson, arrived in the colony with the first convicts on board the Scindian in June 1850.

Edmund Henderson

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Edmund Yeamans Walcott Henderson KCB ( 19 April 1821 – 8 December 1896 ) was an officer in the British Army who was Comptroller-General of Convicts in Western Australia from 1850 to 1863, Home Office Surveyor-General of Prisons from 1863 to 1869, and Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis, head of the London Metropolitan Police, from 1869 to 1886.

After Mayne's death on 26 December 1868, Labalmondière acted as Commissioner until the appointment of Colonel Edmund Henderson three months later.

Warren also tried to assert his authority over CID, which his predecessor, Sir Edmund Henderson, had left almost entirely in Monro's hands.

Among other portraits of his latter years were a memorial portrait of the Earl of Iddesleigh, of which he painted a replica for the National Portrait Gallery, portraits of Cardinal Manning ( perhaps his best effort in this line ), Samuel Cousins, Sir Edmund Henderson and others.

After her husband's death, Mrs. Crane moved to Roseville, near Newark, leaving Stephen in the care of his brother Edmund, with whom the young boy lived with cousins in Sussex County.

In the summer of 1891, Crane often camped with friends in the nearby area of Sullivan County, New York, where his brother Edmund owned a house.

In 1691, at the collapse of rule by Sir Edmund Andros and the reorganization of Massachusetts as a royal colony, Dukes County was transferred back to the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and split into the county of Dukes County, Massachusetts and Nantucket County, Massachusetts.

In early October 1663, a militia of men from Accomac County, Virginia led by a Colonel Edmund Scarborough arrived at the Annemessex settlement and proceeded to secure oaths of allegiance under threat of arrest and property confiscation.

In 1771 Henry and his wife Sarah moved into their Scotchtown plantation in Hanover County, along with their children: Martha (" Patsy "), Anne, Elizabeth (" Betsy "), John, William, and Edmund (" Neddy ").

Pendleton County was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1788 from parts of Augusta, Hardy, and Rockingham Counties and was named for Edmund Pendleton, a distinguished Virginia statesman and jurist.

The County was named after Edmund Pendleton ( 1721 – 1803 ), a longtime member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ( 1752 – 74 ), the Continental Congress and chief justice of Virginia.

It was suggested by one of the original settlers of Cooke County, Colonel William Fitzhugh, that the town be named after General Edmund Pendleton Gaines.

Pecans emerged as an important crop, largely because of the work of Edmund E. Riesen, an Englishman who moved to San Saba County in 1874 and made improvement of the native nuts his life's work.

Parnell made it his business to cultivate Fenian sentiments both in Britain and Ireland and became associated with the more radical wing of the Home Rule League, which included Joseph Biggar ( MP for Cavan from 1874 ), John O ' Connor Power ( MP for County Mayo from 1874 ) ( both, although constitutionalists, had links with the IRB ), Edmund Dwyer-Gray ( MP for Tipperary from 1877 ), and Frank Hugh O ' Donnell ( MP for Dungarvan from 1877 ).

He returned to fight the third and last by-election in County Carlow, having lost the support of the Freeman's Journal when its proprietor Edmund Dwyer-Gray defected to the anti-Parnellites.

At midnight, Alameda County deputy district attorney Edwin Meese III telephoned Governor Edmund Brown, Sr, asking for authority to proceed with a mass arrest.

Gilbert was eager to participate and, after Carew's seizure of the barony of Idrone ( in modern County Carlow ), he pushed westward with his forces across the River Blackwater in the summer of 1569 and joined up with his kinsman to defeat Sir Edmund Butler, a younger brother of the Earl's.

The first settler was Edmund Fuller, who arrived from Oneida County in 1820 and built a log cabin.

Edmund W. Pettus was born in 1821 in Limestone County, Alabama.

Edmund Rice was born to Robert Rice and Margaret Rice ( née Tierney ) on the farming property of " Westcourt ", in Callan, County Kilkenny.

* Field Marshal Sir Edmund Allenby, victor of the Battle of Megiddo, was created Viscount Allenby, of Megiddo and of Felixstowe in the County of Suffolk, in 1919.

* Field Marshal Sir Edmund Ironside, who commanded the British forces around Arkhangelsk in the North Russia Campaign, was created Baron Ironside, of Archangel and Ironside in the County of Aberdeen, in 1941.

Shortly before its abolition the West Suffolk County Council commissioned Elizabeth Frink to sculpt a statue of St Edmund to commemorate the end of 970 years of independent administration of the area.

Under its provisional president Joseph Dudley the disputed " King's Country " ( present-day Washington County ) was brought into the dominion, and the rest of the colony was brought under dominion control by Governor Sir Edmund Andros.