Braddon

Braddon

Braddon may refer to several people:

* Sir Edward Braddon, Australian politician and member of the inaugural Australian House of Representatives
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon, British novelist

There are also several things named after Sir Edward Braddon:

* Braddon, Australian Capital Territory, an inner suburb of Canberra
* the Division of Braddon, an Australian Electoral Division
* the Division of Braddon (state) an electoral division for the Tasmanian House of Assembly.


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  • Braddon — (spr. brädd n), Mary Elizabeth, engl. Schriftstellerin, im Sensationsroman hervorragend, geb. 1837 in London als die Tochter eines Rechtsanwalts, der selbst schriftstellerte, hatte als Erzieherin reiche Gelegenheit, das Leben der höhern… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Braddon — (spr. brädd n), Mary Elisabeth, engl. Schriftstellerin, geb. 1837 in London, Witwe des Verlegers John Maxwell; Sensationsromane (»Aurora Floyd«, 1862; »Lady Audley s secret«; »Henry Dunbar«, 1864; »Taken of the flood«, 1874; »Cut by the county«,… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Braddon — This name is of English locational origin either from Bradden in Northamptonshire or from the Braddons a range of heights in South Devon. The former, recorded as Bradene in the Domesday Book of 1086 derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century… …   Surnames reference

  • Braddon (Tasmanie) — Circonscription de Braddon La circonscription de Braddon (en anglais: Division of Braddon), en Tasmanie (Australie) est une des cinq circonscriptions de Tasmanie. Elle comprend les villes de Burnie, Devonport, Latrobe, Ulverstone, Penguin,… …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Braddon Green — (born 18 January 1959 in Benalla, Victoria is a former cricketer who captained the Australian under 19 ODI team on two occasions and played first class cricket for Devon County Cricket Club and the Victoria Bushrangers.tatisticsHe played 12 First …   Wikipedia

  • Braddon, Australian Capital Territory — Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb name = Braddon state = act city = Canberra caption = lga = North Canberra postcode = 2612 est = 1928 propval = $325,000 pop = 3,611 (2001 census) ACTgov = Molonglo fedgov = Fraser near nw = Lyneham near n …   Wikipedia

  • BRADDON, Sir Edward Nicholas Coventry (1829-1904) — premier of Tasmania came of an old Cornish family and was born on 11 June 1829. He was the son of Henry Braddon, a solicitor and his wife, formerly Fanny White. Miss Braddon the novelist was a younger sister. Educated privately and at University… …   Dictionary of Australian Biography

  • Braddon, Mary Elizabeth — ▪ British writer married name  Mary Elizabeth Maxwell  born October 4, 1837, London, England died February 4, 1915, Richmond, Surrey       English novelist whose Lady Audley s Secret (1862) was the most successful of the sensation novels of the… …   Universalium

  • Braddon Clause — /ˈbrædn klɔz/ (say bradn klawz) noun a controversial clause passed at the Australian Federal Convention of 1897–98 allowing for the return to the states of a large proportion of the customs duties to be collected by the Commonwealth. {after Sir… …  

  • BRADDON, MISS —    (Mrs. John Maxwell), a popular novelist, born in London; authoress of Lady Audley s Secret, Aurora Floyd, and some 50 other novels; contributed largely to magazines; b. 1837 …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

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