Extract date: 18/05/2024
| Name | County of Gladstone |
|---|---|
| Type Designation | County |
| Place Id | 20504 |
| Place Type | Administrative Area |
| Status | Historical |
| Date Registered | |
| Location (Datum GDA94) | |
| Latitude: -14° 47' S (Decimal degrees -14.79) | |
| Longitude: 134° 51' E (Decimal degrees 134.86) | |
| Locality / Suburb | |
| (None Found) | |
| Local Government Area | |
| Roper Gulf Shire Council | |
| History/Origin | This County, in the Roper River area, lapsed with the passage in 1976 and subsequent assent of the Crown Lands Ordinance 1976 (No 1 of 1977) and the Crown Lands (Validantion of Proclaimations) Ordinance 1976 (No 2 of 1977). County was named after William Ewart Gladstone (1809 ? 1898), born in Liverpool, educated at Eton and Oxford and became an MP in 1832 and finally Prime Minister of a Liberal Government in 1867, but was defeated by Benjamin Disraeli in 1874. Gladstone had four terms as Prime Minister in 1867, 1880, 1886 & 1892. Four of the Hundreds of the County of Gladstone bear references to places connected with his family homes at Hawarden and Fasque (in Scotland) and with Stephen Glynne and Flintshire. |
| Date | Gazettal | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| 09/01/1873 | SAGG |