Excerpt from Hazell's Annual for 1908: A Cyclopedic Record of Men and Affairs for Use in 1908 Bent, Hon. Thomas, Premier of Victoria was b. At Penrith, 1838, and settled in Victoria '49. Entered political life as m.l.a. Victoria '73,. Commissioner Public Works '80, Railways '81-3, Speaker '92-4, Minister Public Works, Health, and Railways, 1903-4, and succeeded Mr. Irvine as Premier Feb. 1904. Address Brighton, Victoria. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.