But many Liberal MPs saw him as too old at 64 and too conservative to compete with the Labor leader, Gough Whitlam, and they chose the younger and more aggressive John Gorton.

During late 1944 Gorton went to Heidelberg hospital for surgery which could not fully repair his facial injuries.

She went to work as an assistant attorney general in the office of state Attorney General Slade Gorton, a Republican.

Higgins is the only Division to have been held by two Prime Ministers, which occurred when Holt went missing while Prime Minister, and then-Senator Gorton was elected as his replacement.

Gorton refused to allow her to appear, and he went in her place.

A Republican, he succeeded Slade Gorton, who went on to represent Washington in the United States Senate.

Gorton has also been the birthplace of three Olympians, Jeff Williams a cyclist who went to the 1980 Olympics, Thomas Evenson ( athletics, silver medallist in the 3000 metres steeplechase at Los Angeles in 1932 ) and George Wilkinson a former water polo three time Olympic champion.

It went through Gorton, Abbey Hey and Reddish and it opened for trade in 1797.

In 1969 the Gorton administration was severely embarrassed by a renowned This Day Tonight story in which a conscientious objector, who had been on the run from police for several months, was interviewed live in the studio by journalist Richard Carleton, who then posed awkward questions to the Army minister about why TDT had been able to locate the man within hours and bring him to the studio when the federal police had been unable to capture him, and the event was made even more embarrassing for the government because the man was able to leave the studio before police arrived to arrest him.

After last serving in a public capacity in 1670, when he was 78 years old, Gorton continued to live in Warwick until his death in 1677.

Gorton appeared for her, however, and what he told the magistrates must have been plenty, for he was charged with deluding the court, fined, and told to leave the colony within fourteen days.

One can imagine that with her and Gorton there it was no place for anyone with weak nerves.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

The Boston elders were great at befuddling the opposition with torrents of ecclesiastical obscurities, but Gorton was better.

Gorton replied with blasts that scandalized the congregation.

Gorton then translated McKinstry's drawings into a mould with a cast of Julian Bleach's face on the inside and a clay Davros face on the outside.

Samuel Gorton purchased the Native American lands at Shawomet in 1642, precipitating a military dispute with the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

With John Gorton becoming Prime Minister after Holt's death, Askin came into conflict with the Commonwealth Government over Gorton's determination to maintain federal command over taxation and in June 1968 declared that he could veto any form of state taxation.

In late 1969, Askin, with Bolte, organised an ' emergency ' premiers ' conference, without Gorton, to publicise the disadvantages of the States, a move that was partly responsible for the party deposition of Gorton in 1971.

Gorton with mother Alice as a child in 1915.

They separated in Australia, and Gorton established a de facto relationship with Sinn, who died of tuberculosis in 1920.

Gorton completed his training at RAF Heston and RAF Honiley, with No. 61 Operational Training Unit RAF, flying Supermarine Spitfires.

Gorton then spent almost a day on a crowded liferaft, in shark-infested waters, with little drinking water, until the raft was spotted by HMAS Ballarat, which picked up the passengers and took them to Batavia.

In March 1944, Gorton was sent back to Australia with the rank of Flight Lieutenant.

In the subsequent leadership struggle, Gorton was championed by Army Minister Malcolm Fraser and Liberal Party Whip Dudley Erwin, and with their support he was able to defeat his main rival, External Affairs Minister Paul Hasluck, to become Liberal leader even though he was a member of the Senate.

Gorton liked to portray himself as a man of the people who enjoyed a beer and a gamble, with a bit of a " larrikin " streak about him.

John Hewson credited himself with " returning Gorton to the fold " In March 1983, he congratulated Bob Hawke " for rolling that bastard Fraser ".

McEwen's opposition forced McMahon to withdraw from the leadership ballot and opened the way for the successful campaign to promote the Minister for Education and Science, Senator John Gorton, to the Prime Ministership with the support of a group led by Defence Minister Malcolm Fraser.

His successor, Doug Anthony, said that the Country Party's objections to McMahon no longer held, finally freeing the Liberals to replace Gorton with McMahon within two months.

The southern hemisphere premiere was in Wellington, New Zealand, with John Hopkins conducting the New Zealand National Orchestra ( now the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra ) and the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, with soloists Peter Baillie, Graeme Gorton and Angela Shaw.

When Prime Minister John Gorton moved in, Bettina Gorton's practical abilities in farm repairs were soon called on to deal with maintenance issues resulting from some of Zara Holt ’ s more impractical decorating achievements.

In 1935, Gorton and Bettina Brown were married in Oxford and after his studies were finished, they settled in Australia, taking over his father's orchard, " Mystic Park ", at Lake Kangaroo near Kerang, Victoria.

To do so, the ALP would have to win Field's and Bunton's seats, and one seat in each territory, and have the second ACT seat fall to either a Labor candidate or an independent, former Liberal Prime Minister John Gorton, now estranged from his party.

The older Gorton and his wife Kathleen had emigrated to Australia by way of South Africa, where they had prospered during the Boer War.

At his wife ’ s urging, he began a fishing business in 1874 known as the Slade Gorton & Company, and began to pack and sell salt codfish and mackerel in small kegs.

* Reid, Alan ( 1971 ), The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, New South Wales

* Hancock, Ian ( 2002 ), John Gorton: He Did It His Way, Hodder, Sydney, New South Wales ( sympathetic ) ISBN 0-7336-1439-6

* Reid, Alan ( 1971 ), The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, New South Wales.

* Reid, Alan ( 1971 ), The Gorton Experiment, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney.

Flynn, living at Mclean Avenue Chatswood, Sydney in 1926, attended Sydney Church of England Grammar School ( Shore School ) where he was the classmate of future Australian Prime Minister, John Gorton.

Samuel Gorton, founder of Warwick, was styled by the historian Samuel Greene Arnold `` one of the most remarkable men who ever lived ''.

Gorton sometimes signed himself `` a professor of the mysteries of Christ ''.

There is plenty more to recommend Gorton, the facts of whose life are given in The Life And Times Of Samuel Gorton, by Adelos Gorton.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Gorton left England, he said, `` to enjoy libertie of conscience in respect to faith towards God, and for no other end ''.

Gorton and his family moved to Plymouth.

Gorton said they were preparing to deport her as a vagabond, and to escape the shame she fled to the woods for several days, returning at night.

When, in March, 1640, the two towns were united under Coddington, Gorton claimed the union was irregular and illegally constituted and that it had never been sanctioned by the majority of freeholders.

While driving the cow back home the woman was assaulted by a servant maid of Gorton.

Gorton reverted to his Plymouth tactics, refused to let her go, and appeared himself before the Portsmouth grand jury.

Gorton then moved to Providence and soon put the town in a turmoil.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

Up to now, Gorton had been looking for trouble, and now that he was trying to get away from it, trouble started looking for him.

Gorton and company, however, promptly bought land from Miantonomi a few miles south of Pawtuxet, extending from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick Neck and twenty miles inland.

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

Pomham and Soconoco, a couple of minor sachems ( of something less than exalted character ) under Miantonomi, declared that they had never assented to the sale of land to Gorton and had never received anything for it.

One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.

Gorton evidently still had plenty to learn about Massachusetts, but he was learning fast.

Promptly their livestock was taken and according to Gorton the soldiers were ordered to knock down anyone who should utter a word of insolence, and run through anyone who might step out of line.