His first act was to appoint the inaugural Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, since the first federal elections were not held until March.

The early Governors-General frequently sought advice on the exercise of their powers from two judges of the High Court of Australia, Sir Samuel Griffith and Sir Edmund Barton.

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.

The first Prime Minister of Australia, Edmund Barton ( sitting second from left ), with his Cabinet, 1901.

He was the second of only two Australian prime ministers to be knighted during their term of office ( the first prime minister Edmund Barton was knighted during his term in 1902 ).

* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).

This seat in Parliament was first filled in 1876, but was abolished in 1880 one year after its second Member, Edmund Barton, was elected to the Legislative Assembly.

Edmund Barton becomes first Prime Minister.

* September 24 – Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.

* January 7 – Edmund Barton, Prime Minister of Australia ( b. 1849 )

** Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia ( d. 1920 )

Other poets referencing the pansy include Ben Jonson, Bernard Barton, Michael Drayton, Edmund Spenser, William Wakefield, and William Wordsworth.

* 1970 – 74: Edmund Barton Building ( formerly Trade Group Offices ), Canberra, Australia

Sir Edmund Barton, GCMG, KC ( 18 January 1849 – 7 January 1920 ), Australian politician and judge, served as the first Prime Minister of Australia and became a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.

Edmund Barton was an early supporter of federation, which became a serious political agenda after Henry Parkes ' Tenterfield Oration, and was a delegate to the March 1891 National Australasian Convention.

In 1897 Edmund Barton topped the poll of the delegates elected from New South Wales to the Constitutional Convention which developed a constitution for the proposed federation.

Edmund Barton, first Prime Minister of Australia, ca.

1901 Photo in 1898 of the future 1st Prime Minister of Australia Edmund Barton aged 49 and 2nd Prime Minister of Australia Alfred Deakin The first and second Prime Ministers of Australia, Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, amongst the 1901 cabinet Sir Edmund Barton Memorial, Barton ACTFew people doubted that Barton, as the leading federalist in the oldest state, deserved to be the first Prime Minister of the new federation.

He later puts history back on track but a few minutes before the credits he makes himself King of England / King Edmund III, marries Maid Marion of Sherwood and makes Baldrick prime minister ( notably dissolving Parliament and controlling Baldrick as always.

Tom Roberts, a famous Australian painter, had lobbied various Australian prime ministers, starting with the first, Edmund Barton.

Its most prominent leaders were Sir Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin, who were the first and second prime ministers of Australia.

Edmund Barton, inaugural prime minister of Australia 1901-1903Alfred Deakin, prime minister of Australia 1903-1904, 1905-1908, 1909-1910

* Edmund Georg Hermann Landau gives considerably simpler proof of the prime number theorem.

Sir Edmund Barton, Australia's first prime minister, resided in the building known as Whitehall in White Street.

During the 1912 congress in Cambridge, England, Edmund Landau listed four basic problems about prime numbers, now called Landau's problems.

When German troops occupied Hungary in 1944, Imrédy was German Plenipotentiary Edmund Veesenmayer ’ s top choice to replace Miklós Kállay as prime minister.

The German Plenipotentiary for Hungary, Edmund Veesenmayer, proposed that Béla Imrédy ( who had, ironically, a Jewish great-grandfather ) be made prime minister.

He was a friend and correspondent of Sir Edmund Barton, the first Australian prime minister, and helped to save Henry Lawson's life in 1910.

Karin Stoiber is the wife of the former prime minister of the state of Bavaria and chairman of the Christian Social Union ( CSU ), Dr. Edmund Stoiber.

* probable – Edmund Dudley, minister of Henry VII of England ( d. 1510 )

* Edmund Sears, 1800s Unitarian parish minister, author who wrote a number of theological works influential to his contemporary liberal Protestants, famous for penning the words to " It Came Upon the Midnight Clear ".

The son of Edmund Dudley, a minister of Henry VII executed by Henry VIII, John Dudley became the ward of Sir Edward Guildford at the age of seven.

Bayern is considered the establishment club, which is reflected by many board members being business leaders and including the former Bavarian minister president, Edmund Stoiber.

of Atherington, whose son was Henry VII's minister Edmund Dudley, and whose grandson was John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he was the son of Presbyterian minister Edmund Melville Wylie and the former Edna Edwards, a novelist, who died when Philip was five years old.

* Edmund Calamy IV ( 1697 ?– 1755 ), son of the historian, dissenting minister

The Letanie was printed by a Dutch press for John Lilburne, who had been brought to the Gatehouse in 1636 by the clothier Thomas Hewson and minister Edmund Rosier.

* Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet ( 1834 – 1909 ), British diplomat, minister and ambassador

* Edmund W. Barker, former People's Action Party cabinet minister, Parliament of Singapore

Harold Earl Edmund Lovell ( born September 27, 1955 ) is the minister of tourism and civil aviation of Antigua and Barbuda.

He succeeded Dr Beate Merk, who had been appointed as Bavarian law minister by Edmund Stoiber on 14 October 2003.

Edmund Burke Fairfield ( August 7, 1821 – November 7, 1904 ) was a minister, educator and politician from the U. S. State of Michigan and an educator from Nebraska.

Edmund Hamilton Sears ( April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876 ) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants.