Billy Nicholson Former Member of House of Representatives

Date of Nascence: 01/01/1840

Place of Birth: Biglands, Aikton, Cumberland, England

Appointment of Death: 17/02/1919

Place of Expiry: Woonona, New Due south Wales, Commonwealth of australia

Parliamentary Service

Position	Commencement	Cease	Period	Notes
Member of the NSW Legislative Assembly	24 Jun 1891	21 Feb 1917	25 years seven months 29 days
Member for Illawarra	24 Jun 1891	16 Sep 1891	2 months 24 days
Member for Illawarra	03 Oct 1891	25 Jun 1894	2 years 8 months 23 days
Fellow member for Woronora	17 Jul 1894	05 Jul 1895	xi months xix days
Member for Woronora	24 Jul 1895	08 Jul 1898	2 years eleven months 15 days
Member for Woronora	27 Jul 1898	11 Jun 1901	2 years 10 months 16 days
Member for Woronora	03 Jul 1901	16 Jul 1904	three years 14 days
Fellow member for Wollongong	06 Aug 1904	xix Aug 1907	3 years xiv days
Member for Wollongong	10 Sep 1907	14 Sep 1910	iii years v days
Member for Wollongong	14 Oct 1910	06 Nov 1913	iii years 24 days
Member for Wollongong	06 Dec 1913	21 February 1917	3 years two months sixteen days
Working of Collieries Committee No.11	13 Mar 1894	xix Apr 1894	1 month vii days
Moruya Municipal Council Enabling Beak Committee No.12	01 Jul 1896	sixteen Jul 1896	xvi days
North Shore Span Beak Commission No.13	01 Jul 1896	28 Jul 1896	28 days
Lawson's Manor Mortgage Enabling Bill Committee No.29	23 Sep 1896	thirty Sep 1896	viii days
Maitland Gaslight Human action Subpoena Bill Committee No.32	14 Oct 1896	27 Oct 1896	14 days
Selection fabricated by James Connelly, at Tamworth Committee No.35	20 Oct 1896	eleven November 1896	23 days
Selection made by James Connelly, at Tamworth Committee No.35	xx October 1896	11 Nov 1896	23 days
Merits of Richardson, Turner & Co Committee No.36	21 Oct 1896	12 November 1896	23 days
Land fronting Throsby and Cottage Creeks, sold by A.A Dangar, Esquire Committee No.xviii	28 Jul 1896	16 Nov 1896	iii months xx days
Illawarra Harbour and Land Corporation Human activity Further Amendment Bill Committee No.22	02 Dec 1898	06 December 1898	5 days
Accidents in Mines Committee No. 13	20 Oct 1898	23 Dec 1898	ii months 4 days
Care of Rachel Dawson Commission No.20	22 Nov 1898	23 Dec 1898	i month 2 days
State Fronting Throsby and Cottage Creek sold by A.A. Dangar, Esq. Committee No. 9	23 Aug 1898	23 December 1898	4 months one mean solar day
Mort's Dock and Engineering Visitor (Express) Enabling Bill Commission No. 18	17 Nov 1898	23 Dec 1898	ane month 7 days
Activity of Mr.Chisholm, Law Magistrate at Wollongong, in the example of Morgan v. Clift Committee No. 22	21 Nov 1899	30 Nov 1899	10 days
Provisional Purchase of George Humphries Cowled Committee No. x	03 Jul 1900	26 Jul 1900	24 days
Brodie's Enabling Nib Committee No.xix	04 Sep 1900	11 Sep 1900	8 days
Dubbo, Pastoral, Agricultural and Horticultural Association Bill Committee No.20	04 Sep 1900	12 Sep 1900	9 days
Accident to Albert Burbank on Railway Premises, Tamworth Committee No. 11	03 Jul 1900	25 Oct 1900	3 months 23 days
Press Commission No.7	08 Aug 1901	nineteen December 1901	four months 12 days
Land fronting Throsby and Cottage Creeks, sold by A.A Dangar, Esquire Committee No.12	02 Oct 1901	20 Dec 1901	2 months nineteen days
Provisional Purchase past Mrs Anne Rouse, in the Parish of Kahibah Committee No.thirteen	xix Aug 1902	09 Oct 1902	i month 21 days
Due north Sydney Brick and Tile Company'due south Tramway Bill Committee No.xix	06 November 1902	14 Nov 1902	9 days
Dismissal from the Railway Service of Fettlers' Ganger, E.Fifty Warton Committee No.17	30 October 1902	18 Dec 1902	one month 19 days
Printing Committee No.6	17 Jun 1902	xix December 1902	half-dozen months 3 days
Miners' Accident Relief (Bulli Fund Neb) Committee No.20	28 November 1902	20 Dec 1902	23 days
Press Committee No.vii	01 Jul 1903	01 December 1903	5 months ane twenty-four hour period
Press Committee No.6	21 Sep 1904	20 December 1904	3 months
Refusal of the Chemist's Board to register Mr Walter Trafford Commission No.9	18 Jul 1905	30 Nov 1905	iv months 13 days
Printing Committee No.6	28 Jun 1905	08 Dec 1905	v months 11 days
Armidale Cattle Sale-yards Neb Committee No.fifteen	thirty Nov 1906	05 Dec 1906	six days
Press Committee No.v	10 Jul 1906	18 Dec 1906	v months 9 days
Printing Committee No.vi	09 Jul 1907	11 Jul 1907	3 days
Claims of Mr Gustave William Engel Committee No.thirteen	x Oct 1911	18 Oct 1911	9 days
Claims of Samuel Alfred Hutchinson Commission No.10	08 Oct 1912	06 Nov 1912	thirty days

Political Party Activity

Australian Labor Political party (ALP), foundation member, refused pledge, stood as an Independent Labor in 1894, Contained in 1895, Free Trade in 1898, Independent Labor in 1901, rejoined Labor in 1904, expelled in 1916. National Party.

Qualifications, occupations and interests

Coalminer. Miners' Union Secretary. Worked in a colliery from an early age. Worked in Vancouver and Californian gold and argent mines. Arrived in New South Wales in 1882. Coalminer at Newcastle and at Bulli. Consul to Ballarat Merchandise Matrimony Congress in 1890.

Personal

Son of John Nicholson, farmer, and his wife Mary Lightfoot. Married Ellen Brodie in Febraury 1891 at Sydney and they had 1 daughter and 3 sons. Church building of England.

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