Political, Legal and Regal

The following people, from across politics, law and the aristocracy, were passengers on the SS Wimmera:

Sir John Forrest (former explorer and West Australian politician) – November 1904
Countess of Onslow – January 1905
Comte Henry Prévost de Brebières (France) – February 1905
Rt. Hon. Richard Seddon (Premier of New Zealand) – 1905
Hon. Chandos Graham Temple Gore Langton – April 1906
Sir Joseph Ward (Premier of New Zealand) – 1906 / 1907
Justice Henry Bournes Higgins (High Court of Australia) – December 1906
Hon. Bolton Stafford Bird (MHA Tasmania) – July 1907
Count Fritz von Hochberg (of Germany) – December 1907-January 1908
Count Elemér Batthyány (of Hungary) – January 1909
James Richard Stanhope / 7th Earl Stanhope – February 1909
Sir Robert Stout (Chief Justice / former Premier of New Zealand) – February 1909
Thomas Edward (T.E.) Taylor (M.P. / Mayor of Christchurch) – June 1909 / July 1910
Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas (Colonial Office) – August 1909

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Sir John Forrest

Sir John Forrest was a visitor aboard the SS Wimmera on Monday 12 December 1904. It was on the occasion of a ceremony and cruise on Port Phillip Bay prior to the Wimmera departing on her inaugural service to New Zealand. At the time Sir John Forrest was the federal member for the Division of Swan,…

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Premier Richard Seddon

The Premier of New Zealand, The Rt. Hon. Richard Seddon, affectionately known as “King Dick”, was never a passenger of the Wimmera but a visitor to the ship on two occasions. He first boarded her in Wellington on Thursday 9 February 1905 when, as an invited guest of the Huddart Parker Company, he spoke at…

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Sir Joseph Ward

Sir Joseph George Ward (Premier of New Zealand) In addition to being a visitor aboard the Wimmera on the same two occasions as Premier Richard Seddon, in February and May 1905, Sir Joseph George Ward, was also several times a passenger. In March 1905, Ward, who then Minister of Transport and Minister of Industries and…

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Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas

In 1909 the Assistant Under Secretary of State for the Colonies and Chief of the Dominion Department of the British Colonial Office, Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas K.C.M.G., C.B., accompanied by Mr A. A. Pearson, C.M.G. boarded the SS Wimmera in Auckland on Monday [9] August 1909 for Sydney where they arrived on Friday 13 August…

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Sir Robert Stout

On Tuesday 9 February 1909 the chief justice and former Premier of New Zealand, Sir Robert Stout (1844-1930), boarded the SS Wimmera in Auckland. The Wimmera was bound for southern ports and Sir Robert disembarked in Wellington on Friday February 12, 1909. Sir Robert Stout was the Premier of New Zealand from 1884 to 1887…

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7th Earl Stanhope

James Richard, the 7th and last Earl Stanhope formerly titled the Viscount Mahon inherited the title of Earl on the death of his father in 1905. In 1908-1909 the Earl Stanhope conducted a world tour. Following a visit to Canada he arrived in Brisbane as a through passenger from Vancouver aboard the RMS Makura on…

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Justice Henry Bournes Higgins

Justice Henry Bournes Higgins, one of the newly appointed Judges of the High Court of Australia, departed Melbourne on the Wimmera on Wednesday 19 December 1906.

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Countess of Onslow

Between 1889 and 1892 Sir William Hillier Onslow, the 4th Earl of Onslow, was Governor of New Zealand. Accompanying the Earl during the period of his appointment was his wife, the Countess of Onslow aka Lady Onslow nee Florence Coulston Gardner as well as their son, Richard, and two daughters, Gwendoline and Dorothy. A further…

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Comte Henry Prévost de Brebières

Comte (or Count) Henry Prévost de Brebières briefly visited Australia and New Zealand whilst on a round-the-world tour in 1904-05. He arrived in Australia at Fremantle aboard the Mongolia on 25 January 1905. His tour had previously taken him to India and Ceylon where he boarded the P & O liner at Colombo. He disembarked the Mongolia on…

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