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Gowrie then summoned Coles and Wilson and demanded that, if he commissioned opposition leader John Curtin as Prime Minister, they would support him and end the instability in government.
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Gowrie then duly swore Curtin in as Prime Minister on 7 October 1941.
The independents, under prodding from Governor-General Lord Gowrie, then threw their support to Opposition Leader John Curtin, who was sworn in as Prime Minister on 7 October 1941.
It was officially opened following a Remembrance Day ceremony on 11 November 1941 by the then Governor-General Lord Gowrie, himself a former soldier whose honours included the Victoria Cross.
The line is double track as far as Gowrie Station, then it is single track to Upfield Station.
Alexander Ruthven then urged the king to lose no time, demanding that he keep the matter secret from his courtiers, and that he bring to Gowrie House as small a retinue as possible.
His son John Ruthven, Earl of Gowrie ( 1577 ?– 1600 ), continued the family tradition of intrigue by offering to serve Queen Elizabeth I, then leading the opposition to James VI.
* Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie ( 1872 – 1955 ), through meritorious service ( including as Governor-General of Australia ) regained the family title ( first as Baron Gowrie, 1934, and then as Earl of Gowrie, 1944 ).
* Governor-General – Sir Isaac Isaacs ( until 23 January ), then Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie
* Governor of New South Wales – Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Baron Gowrie ( until 22 January ), then Sir David Anderson ( from 6 August )
Gowrie and summoned
Governor-General Lord Gowrie, reluctant to call an election given the international situation, summoned Coles and Wilson and made them promise that if he named Curtin Prime Minister, they would support him and end the instability in government.
Gowrie and Coles
Under the prodding of Governor-General Lord Gowrie, who wanted to avoid calling an election given the dangerous international situation, Coles and Wilson threw their support to Labor.
Gowrie and Wilson
Located in McIntosh Street, the house was designed for Professor Eben Gowrie Waterhouse by William Hardy Wilson and built circa 1913.
Gowrie and if
Bowes asked Gowrie if he would send them to Elizabeth, saying that he had made previous arrangements for this, and established that Gowrie got them from Sanders Jordan.
Gowrie and leader
* When Joseph Lyons, prime minister and leader of the United Australia Party ( UAP ), died suddenly in April 1939, the governor-general, Lord Gowrie, called on Sir Earle Page to become caretaker prime minister.
In the absence of a UAP deputy, the Governor-General, Lord Gowrie, appointed Country Party leader Earl Page as his temporary replacement, pending the selection of Lyons ' successor by the UAP.
Examples include a mural of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. on King Street ( painted by Andrew Aiken ( Seems ) and Juilee Pryor ), the " Great Wave " mural in Gowrie Street, the " Three Proud People " mural ( a reproduction of a photo taken at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics ), and the " map of Africa " mural in King Street.
Gowrie and John
* August 5 – John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator ( b. 1577 )
The so-called Gowrie conspiracy of 1600, in which the young Earl of Gowrie, John Ruthven, and his brother Alexander Ruthven were killed by James's attendants for a supposed assault on the King, triggered the dismissal of their sisters Beatrix and Barbara Ruthven as ladies-in-waiting to Anne, with whom they were " in chiefest credit.
Governor General of Australia | Governor General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie | The Lord Gowrie ( right ) signing the declaration of war against Empire of Japan | Japan with Prime Minister of Australia | Prime Minister John Curtin ( left ) looking on.
Since Ruthven was run through by James's page John Ramsay and the Earl of Gowrie was himself killed in the ensuing fracas, there were few surviving witnesses.
* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( 1576 – 1600 )
She visited Sydney and Melbourne, and had dinner with the Governor General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, and the Prime Minister of Australia, John Curtin, in Canberra.
John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie ( c. 1577 – 5 August 1600 ) was a Scottish nobleman, the second son of William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie and his wife Dorothea Stewart.
Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar ( as he was known before his enoblement ) was the eldest son of Sir Robert Gordon of Lochinvar ( d. November 1628 ), a Gentleman of the King's Bedchamber, by his wife Lady Isabel Ruthven, daughter of the William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie.
John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie.
John and Alexander Ruthven were killed in Gowrie House during an alleged attempt on the person of James VI.
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* John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie, Scottish conspirator
Gowrie and Curtin
Governor General of Australia | Governor General Alexander Hore-Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie | The Earl Gowrie signing the declaration of War against Japan with Curtin looking on
Gowrie and they
Bowes asked Gowrie again later in November, and wrote to Walsingham saying he had told Gowrie that Queen Mary was now claiming they were forgeries, and was hoping to obtain them herself to deface and destroy them ( perhaps to further the " Association ".
Gowrie and would
Neville wrote that Gowrie would like to kiss Queen Elizabeth's hand, and said the Earl was well-affected to the Protestant religion and the English queen.
Gowrie would be able to give Cecil useful information regarding potential feared " alterations " in the political state of Scotland.
Alexander Ruthven dispatched a servant, Henderson, to inform his brother that the king would be arriving at Gowrie House later in the day.
Gowrie would not give him the letters.
Gowrie said he would have to tell the King about the request and Bowes preferred not.
Gowrie and him
When James tried to command her, she warned him to take care how he treated her because she was not the Earl of Gowrie.
The RAAF had more recruits than it could equip and train and Bradman spent four months in Adelaide before the Governor-General of Australia, Lord Gowrie, persuaded Bradman to transfer to the army, a move that was criticised as a safer option for him.
In August 1582, in what became known as the Ruthven Raid, the Protestant earls of Gowrie and Angus lured James into Ruthven Castle, imprisoned him, and forced Lennox to leave Scotland.
In 1919 he was created Baron Ruthven of Gowrie, of Gowrie in the County of Perth, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which gave him an automatic seat in the House of Lords.
It was created in 1621 by James VI for his friend and helper Sir David Murray who had saved him from the attack of Earl Gowrie in 1600.
Bugden Avenue in the Canberra suburb of Gowrie is named for him.
Firstly, that Gowrie and his brother, Alexander Ruthven, lured King James ( at that time king only of Scotland ) to Gowrie House for the purpose of either murdering or kidnapping him, that James paid a surprise visit to Gowrie House with the intention of murdering the two Ruthvens, or that the events were the outcome of an unpremeditated brawl between the king and the earl or his brother.
During 1582 Gowrie and his associates seized the young king and held him prisoner for 10 months.
James eventually escaped and actually forgave Gowrie, but after a second abortive attempt by Gowrie and others to overthrow him, Gowrie was finally executed and his property ( including Huntingtower ) was forfeited to the crown.
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