member of the South Australian Legislative Council
Which position did John Hannah Gordon hold from Apr 1893 to Dec 1903?
John Hannah Gordon Sir John Hannah Gordon KC ( 26 July 1850 – 23 December 1923 ) was a Scottish-Australian politician and judge . He was a member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1888 to 1892 and from 1893 to 1903 . He was a minister under four Premiers : John Cockburn , Frederick Holder , Charles Kingston and John Jenkins , variously as Minister for Education , Chief Secretary , Attorney-General , and Minister Controlling the Northern Territory . He was a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia from 1903 . Early life . Gordon was born at Kilmacolm , Renfrewshire , Scotland , the eldest son of the Rev . James Gordon , preacher of the Free Church , and his wife Margaret , née Leonard . The family emigrated to South Australia in 1859 where Rev . Gordon took charge of the Presbyterian church at Mount Barker , and was afterwards stationed at Gawler . Gordons younger brother , William Beattie Gordon , who was born in Gawler , became a member of parliament in Western Australia . Gordon was educated at Mount Barker under James Clezy , M.A. , and at Gawler under the Rev . J . Leonard and L . S . Burton . On leaving school he studied theology and classics for two years , and was then for some years in the offices of W . Duffield and Company of Gawler , and Dunn and Company , Port Adelaide . He took up the study of law and served his articles with J . J . Bonnar in Strathalbyn . He was admitted to the South Australian bar in 1876 , but practised for 11 years at Strathalbyn as a solicitor . Gordon did not become a Q.C . until 1900 . On 4 January 1877 at the Presbyterian church , Strathalbyn , Gordon married Ann Wright Rogers ( 20 February 1855 – 20 April 1951 ) , youngest daughter of William Rogers MHA . They had two sons and two daughters . Political career . In 1888 Gordon was elected to the Legislative Council for the Southern District , a seat he held for 15 years . He was Minister of Education in the Cockburn ministry from June 1889 to August 1890 , and held the same position in the first Holder ministry from June to October 1892 . Gordon became Chief Secretary in the Kingston ministry in June 1893 but resigned on 15 February 1896 . He was Attorney-General of South Australia in Holders second ministry from December 1899 to May 1901 and from May 1901 to December 1903 in the Jenkins ministry . A strong federalist , he was a representative of South Australia at the 1891 convention , was elected fifth out of 33 candidates in 1897 , and sat on the constitutional committee . Womens Suffrage . Gordon introduced the successful Bill for womens suffrage into the Legislative Council in July 1894 . Of the five members of the South Australian Parliament who introduced bills providing votes for women , four were Scottish born and the fifth , Edward Charles Stirling , although born in South Australia had Scots parents . Their shared philosophy was that the demand to enfranchise women was based on the principle of equity and would not result in social upheaval . Later life . Following his political career Gordon became a Supreme Court Justice for South Australia and he was knighted in 1908 . In February 1913 Gordon declined an invitation from Billy Hughes to move to the High Court . Gordon was also a lecturer on literary subjects , such as the Elizabethan period , publishing occasional articles in the Adelaide press . Gordon died at Adelaide , South Australia of cardiac disease on 23 December 1923 . On 4 January 1877 he married Ann Annie Rogers ( 20 Feb 1855 – 20 Apr 1951 ) who survived him . - Annie Louise Gordon ( 3 November 1877 – 18 June 1955 ) married James Robert Anderson KC ( 12 June 1864 – 7 April 1913 ) on 29 October 1896 . Anderson was Attorney General for four months in 1905 . She married a second time , to Dr . Edgar Jabez Brown on 2 March 1915 . She was , as Louise Brown , author of the novel Paul Strange and other works . - ( Margaret ) Kathleen Gordon ( 13 July 1882 – 1958 ) , married Neil Campbell ( 11 September 1882 – April 1918 ) on 23 May 1914 . Neil served in the Boer War and was a member of the Tunnelling Corps in World War I , killed in action . References . - Graham Loughlin , Gordon , Sir John Hannah ( 1850–1923 ) , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Volume 9 , Melbourne University Press , 1983 , pp 53–54 . Retrieved on 24 December 2008 .