| 词条 | John Petrie |
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|name = John Petrie |image = JohnPetrie01.jpg |caption = Signed photo of John Petrie |birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1822|01|15}} |birth_place = Edinburgh, Scotland |death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1892|12|08|1822|01|15}} |death_place = Brisbane, Australia |known_for = First mayor of Brisbane |occupation = Builder, Architect, Local Mayor/Councillor |nationality = Scottish |boards = Brisbane Licensing Board |parents = Andrew Petrie, Mary Cuthbertson |children = 10 }} John Petrie (15 January 1822 – 8 December 1892) was the first Mayor of Brisbane, an architect, stonemason and building contractor in that city. Private lifeJohn Petrie was born 15 January 1822[1] in Edinburgh, the eldest son of Andrew Petrie and Mary Cuthbertson.[2] He arrived in Sydney with his family in 1831 and was educated at John Dunmore Lang's school. In 1837 he went to Moreton Bay, where his father had been appointed clerk of works, and accompanied him on explorations to the west and north of Brisbane; he also became a champion oarsman. Aware that his son might be unduly influenced by the incarcerated men at the penal colony, his father only selected workmen that he considered beyond reproach to come to his home in the evening to teach his sons cabinet making and carpentry skills.[3] On 5 September 1850 in Brisbane, Petrie married Jane Keith McNaught,[2] daughter of Daniel McNaught and Margaret Edgar[2] of Dunbarton, Scotland. Daniel McNaught was a foreman of the Petrie business and contracting business after migrating to Brisbane. The couple had five sons and five daughters:[6]
His wife Jane died in Brisbane on 16 Dec 1896[2] and is buried in the Petrie family plot in Toowong Cemetery.[1] John Petrie died on 8 December 1892 in Brisbane[2] and is buried with his wife and family in Toowong Cemetery.[1] Margaret JaneMargaret Jane married Edward Eldridge-Smith on 20 August 1872 at the residence of the bride's parents by the Reverend Edward Griffith.[5]'[6] Eldridge-Smith was the son of Richard Shepherd Smith (a sea captain) and Elizabeth (née Eldridge), and regularly used a hyphenated version of his parents' names.[7] However Margaret is registered with the family name of 'Smith'. Her children showed only this name on their birth records. Eldridge-Smith was born on his father's ship in Sydney Harbour in 1850. Eldridge-Smith held various posts with Her Majesty's Customs, including St Lawrence (between Rockhampton and Mackay) and Lucinda Point on the Herbert River near Ingham. From 1905-1925 the couple lived in Mackay where Edward was Secretary of the Mackay Harbour Board. They had a home on River Street where Margaret died.[4] Eldridge-Smith died in Brisbane in 1936 and is interred at Mackay near Margaret.[8][9] Edward was an uncle of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and held the post of Captain with the Moreton Regiment.[10] They had nine children, Louise Jane (b.1873), May Elizabeth (b.1876), Arthur Edward (b.1878), Amelia Carmen (b.1880), Percy Petrie (b.1882), Ernest Stanley (b.1884), Leslie Moreton (b.1886), Eileen Alice (b.1889), and Doris Marjorie (b.1892). The daughters married accordingly; Louise Jane m. Edgar Horace Harley 10 April 1900,[11] May Elizabeth m. Thomas William Biggs 8 June 1903,[12] Amelia Carmen m. Sidney Stuart Beatty on 23 August 1905[13] Eileen Alice m. Donald Roy McLean 18 May 1914[14] and Doris Marjorie m. Francis Henry Lindesay Black in 1916.[15] Business lifeAfter 'apprenticeship' in the family building and contracting business John assumed increasing responsibility for its management after his father's blindness in 1848 forced him to retire. John became sole proprietor and the firm was changed from Petrie & Son to John Petrie. The enviable repute for fine workmanship under his father was sustained by John. His skill can still be seen in many buildings in Brisbane, but he lacked his father's drive and business acumen. In 1882 Petrie's son, Andrew Lang, became manager of the reconstructed firm, John Petrie & Son. Public lifeAlthough Petrie seems to have had little interest in politics, he was public-spirited and held many important offices. He topped the poll in Brisbane's first municipal election in 1859 and was mayor three times by 1862. He twice resigned from the council in protest against what he deemed the high-handedness of the majority faction, but continued after re-election to serve as an alderman until 1867.[16] As Mayor he had welcomed the first Governor of Queensland, Sir George Bowen, to Brisbane in 1859. Practical experience and common sense fitted Petrie for laying the sound foundations of municipal administration in Brisbane and for guiding the council in providing public works and services. Closely associated with the Enoggera Dam while it was planned by the council, he later saw it constructed as a member of the Board of Water Works; as its chairman in 1875 he was a leader in implementing the Gold Creek Dam and planning of the Mount Crosby Weir. After serving as mayor, he had difficulty in 'playing second fiddle' and was prone to indulge in such manoeuvres as walking out of council meetings. Petrie devoted much time to community welfare. For years he served on the management committee of the Brisbane Hospital and was chairman after 1885. He was also a member of the Board for Administering Outdoor Relief and the Central Board of Health. Appointed to the New South Wales Commission of the Peace in 1859, he remained a member of the Brisbane bench until 1892. He gave long service on the Brisbane Licensing Board and was often returning officer for the parliamentary elections. A trustee of the Brisbane general cemetery and of Bowen Park and a ranger for protecting native birds on the Enoggera Water Reserve, he was a director of several building societies and of the Queensland Steam Navigation Co. Elected to the North Brisbane School of Arts Committee in 1864 and 1866, he was also an enthusiastic member of the first Masonic lodge in Queensland. A staunch Presbyterian, he was an elder and worked with enthusiasm in building St Pauls Presbyterian Church, Spring Hill. Integrity and long association with the city made him one of the best known citizens of Brisbane. He died in December 1892.[3] HonoursJohn Petrie was inducted into the Queensland University of Technology's Construction Hall of Fame on 2 November 2010.[17] See also{{portal|Queensland}}
References
1. ^1 2 Toowong Cemetery Monumental Inscriptions - Queensland Family History Society Inc. {{DEFAULTSORT:Petrie, John}}2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths and Marriages 3. ^1 {{cite book |title=Petries Bight: a Slice of Brisbane History |last=Hacker |first=D. R. |coauthors= |year=1999 |publisher=Queensland Women's Historical Association Inc |location=Bowen Hills, Queensland |isbn=0-9590271-8-1 |pages=7—8 }} 4. ^1 {{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article168122292|title=Personal.|date=17 February 1925|newspaper=Daily Mercury|accessdate=21 October 2018|issue=1181|location=Queensland, Australia|volume=59,|page=2|via=National Library of Australia}} 5. ^{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1294931|title=Family Notices|date=31 August 1872|newspaper=The Brisbane Courier|accessdate=21 October 2018|issue=4,655|location=Queensland, Australia|volume=XXVII,|page=4|via=National Library of Australia}} 6. ^{{cite journal |title=Marriage Column |journal=The Brisbane Courier |date=31 August 1872 |page=4}} 7. ^{{cite journal |title=B30752 |journal=Qld Registry BDM |date=1936}} 8. ^{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article172909695|title=LATE CAPTAIN ELDRIDGE SMITH.|date=2 March 1936|newspaper=Daily Mercury|accessdate=21 October 2018|issue=53|location=Queensland, Australia|volume=70,|page=5|via=National Library of Australia}} 9. ^{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article184013815|title=Late Mr. E. E. Smith|date=28 February 1936|newspaper=The Telegraph|accessdate=21 October 2018|location=Queensland, Australia|page=8 (SECOND EDITION)|via=National Library of Australia}} 10. ^{{cite journal |last1=Eldridge-Smith |title=Obituary Column |journal=The Courier Mail |date=29 February 1936 |issue=Saturday |page=14}} 11. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19034156 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |volume=LVI, |issue=13,238 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=16 June 1900 |accessdate=21 October 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 12. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article21647688 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Queenslander |volume=LXV, |issue=1444 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=25 July 1903 |accessdate=21 October 2018 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}} 13. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19416224 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Brisbane Courier |volume=LXII, |issue=14,910 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=25 October 1905 |accessdate=21 October 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 14. ^{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171710548 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=Daily Mercury |location=Queensland, Australia |date=19 May 1914 |accessdate=21 October 2018 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}} 15. ^{{cite journal |title=C3197 |journal=Qld Registry BDM |date=1916}} 16. ^1 {{Australian Dictionary of Biography|last=Laverty|first=John|authorlink=|year=1974|id=A050484b|title= Petrie, John (1822 - 1892)|accessdate=17 October 2008 }} 17. ^{{cite web|title=Two Queenslanders enter Construction Hall of Fame|url=http://www.news.qut.edu.au/cgi-bin/WebObjects/News.woa/wa/goNewsPage?newsEventID=34075|work=QUT News 4 Nov 2010|publisher=Queensland University of Technology|accessdate=31 October 2011}} 9 : Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane|People from Edinburgh|Australian Presbyterians|1822 births|1892 deaths|Burials at Toowong Cemetery|History of Brisbane|19th-century Australian politicians|Pre-Separation Queensland |
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