Be it enacted by the general assembly, that one hundred and thirty-nine acres of land, in the county of Hampshire, the property of John Kellar, and laid off by him into in and out lots, with convenient streets, shall be, and the same is hereby established, a town by the name of Frankfort, and that John Mitchell, Andrew Cooper, Ralph Humphries, John Williams, Sen. James Clark, Richard Stafford, Hezekiah Whiteman, and Jacob Brookhart, gentlemen, be trustees thereof, who, or the major part of them, shall have power, from time to time, to settle and determine all disputes concerning the bounds of said lots, and to establish such rules and regulations for the regular building of houses thereon, as to them shall seem best.

Beresford remains close friends with Australian comedian, satirist and character actor Barry Humphries, best known for his on-stage / television alter ego Dame Edna Everage, and his family.

In 1986, Humphries as Patterson was awarded the Douglas Wilkie Medal for doing the least for football in the best and fairest manner.

Some of the best known guests to appear on Tonight Live With Steve Vizard included Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Lane, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirely MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayzee, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

As an 6-9, 286-pound eighth grader, Character was named " best prospect " at the 2002 Nike All-America Camp, beating out current NBA players Luol Deng, Kris Humphries and Ndudi Ebi.

Barry Humphries starred in the original performance as Sinon.

Humphries has featured in various roles in comedy performance films including The Secret Policeman's Other Ball ( 1982 ) and A Night of Comic Relief 2 ( 1989 ).

Egalitarianism, informality and an irreverent sense of humour have been common themes of cultural commentary-exemplified by the works of C J Dennis, Barry Humphries and Paul Hogan.

Since the 1950s, the satirical character creations of Barry Humphries have included housewife " gigastar " Edna Everage and " Australian cultural attaché " Les Patterson, whose interests include boozing, chasing women and flatulence.

Mark Twain, Nellie Melba, Laurence Olivier and Barry Humphries have all performed on this historic stage.

More recent work suggests the Maya may have, in suitable places, developed irrigation systems and more intensive agricultural practices ( Humphries 1993 ).

Humphries ' characters, especially Dame Edna Everage, have brought him international renown, and he has appeared in numerous films, stage productions and television shows.

These enormously popular programs have since been repeated worldwide and the special A Night on Mount Edna won Humphries the Golden Rose of Montreux in 1991.

Humphries commented later: " If you have to explain satire to someone, you might as well give up.

" Humphries died later that night and was found to have a broken jawbone and severe neck injuries.

Janet is given the opportunity to have Brad committed by the show's host, a supposedly blind Austrian named Bert Schnick ( Barry Humphries ), who promises her that the experience will improve their marriage.

Notable Australian writers have included the novelists Marcus Clarke, Miles Franklin, Patrick White, Thomas Keneally, Morris West and Colleen McCullough, the bush poets Henry Lawson and Banjo Paterson, historians Manning Clark and Geoffrey Blainey, the playwright David Williamson and leading expatriate writers Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Clive James and Germaine Greer.

A generation of leading contemporary international writers who left Australia for Britain and the United States in the 1960s have remained regular and passionate contributors of Australian themed literary works throughout their careers including: Clive James, Robert Hughes, Barry Humphries, Geoffrey Robertson and Germaine Greer.

Humphries ' outlandish Australian caricatures, including Dame Edna Everage, Barry McKenzie and Les Patterson have starred in books, stage and screen to great acclaim over five decades and his biographer Anne Pender described him in 2010 as the most significant comedian since Charles Chaplin.

Particularly noteworthy is Union House Theatre, out of which a large number of notable Australian celebrities have emerged, such as Cate Blanchett, Barry Humphries and Malcolm Livingstone ; the Union Band Comp, which has kick-started the careers of several well-known Australian bands ; and an annual comedy review which produced the Working Dog crew.

Oxley says that Kevin Humphries may have dominated for the Australians for a time but that was due to his personality.

Speakers have included Ruth Cracknell, Barry Humphries, Carmen Lawrence, Hilary McPhee, Pat Dodson and Robert Drewe.

It may also be called the Jersey Sound due to the close connection many of its artists and producers have with New Jersey such as the legendary Shep Pettibone and Tony Humphries at Zanzibar in Newark, NJ.

Over the years, such personalities as Chips Rafferty, Barry Humphries, Patrick White and Sigrid Thornton have attended.

Humphries also achieved success in the USA with tours on Broadway and television appearances and has been honoured in Australia and Britain.

Humorist Barry Humphries has been a provactive exponent of Dadaism in Australia.

Educated at Camberwell Grammar School, Humphries has been awarded his place in the Gallery of Achievement there.

Humphries ' forte has always been his one-man satirical stage revues, in which he appears as Edna Everage and a host of other character creations, including Les Patterson and Sandy Stone.

Humphries has been married four times.

Humphries has also been the subject of numerous portraits by artist friends, including Clifton Pugh ( 1958, National Portrait Gallery ) and John Brack ( in the character of Edna Everage, 1969, Art Gallery of New South Wales ).

Humphries has been nominated four times for a British Academy Television Award ( BAFTA TV ), all in the Best Light Entertainment Performance category:

The character has been used to satirise the cult of celebrity, class snobbery, and prudishness and is often used by Humphries to poke fun at the political leaders and fashions of the times.

While Dame Edna is a fictitious character whose life story has been entirely created by Barry Humphries, so complete is her identity as an individual that Macmillan published My Gorgeous Life, Edna's " autobiography " ( written by Humphries but credited to Edna herself ) on its non-fiction list.

Gary John Joseph Humphries ( born 6 July 1958 ) has been a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003.

McLean's charge was reduced to manslaughter, of which he was cleared at the Old Bailey when it emerged that Humphries had been in a scuffle with the police after being ejected from the nightclub.

For more than 30 years, the character of Sir Les Patterson has been a regular feature in Barry Humphries ' solo theatrical appearances in Australia and Great Britain, during which he performs a monologue and frequently bursts into song.

Barry Humphries has also been interviewed in Patterson's guise on numerous TV talk shows, including Parkinson ( 1982 ), The Panel ( 2003 ) and Rove Live ( 2005 ).

In the 1968 production, Barry Humphries played the role of Long John Silver, alongside William Rushton as Squire Trelawney, and Milligan as Ben Gunn.

He interviewed over a thousand guests including Bob Hope, Tim Robbins, Mel Gibson, Chevy Chase, Duran Duran, Cilla Black, Steve Allen, Barry Humphries, Lou Rawls, Tom Jones, Brit Ekland, Cleo Laine, Tiny Tim, Kylie Minogue, Brigette Neilson, Audrey Hepburn, Elle Macpherson, Shirley MacLaine, Alice Cooper, BB King, Rob Lowe, Dionne Warwick, Patrick Swayze, Jerry Hall, Kirk Douglas, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Collins, Sir Bob Geldof, Peter Allen, Sir Peter Ustinov, David Bellamy, Kim Wilde, Michael Aspel, Sally Field, Charles Dance, Whoopi Goldberg, John Thaw, Quincy Jones, Priscilla Presley, Robert Downey Jnr, Mickey Rooney, Martin Sheen, M C Hammer, Lyn Redgrave, ZZ Top, Leo McKern, Kathy Bates, Jane Seymour, Darryl Hannah, Jeremy Irons, Jeffrey Archer, Edward de Bono, Robert Ludlum, James Wood, Diana Ross, Jackie Collins, Harry Connick Jnr, Sir Harry Secombe, Gloria Estafan, Gerard Depardieu, George Benson, Fred Schepsi, Colleen McCullough, Burt Reynolds, Billy Joel, Bette Midler, Ben Elton, Phyllis Diller, Alexei Sayle, Elliott Gould, Oliver Reed, Oliver Stone, Macauley Culkin, Spinal Tap, Robin Williams and Cindy Crawford and various Prime Ministers and politicians.

Actors in the annual theatrical productions included Spike Milligan as Ben Gunn, and, in the 1968 production, Barry Humphries as Long John Silver.

During this period he found time to model for She magazine and also appear in a 1967 stage production of Treasure Island as Squire Trelawney, alongside Spike Milligan and Barry Humphries at the Mermaid Theatre in London.

Humphries performed with Milligan in the 1968 production of Treasure Island, in the role of Long John Silver.

Other notable friends of Humphries include the Australian painter Arthur Boyd, the author and former politician Jeffrey Archer, whom Humphries visited during Archer ’ s stay in prison, and the Irish comedian Spike Milligan.