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Luisa_Tetrazzini

Luisa Tetrazzini (29 June 1871 – 28 April 1940) was an Italian dramatic coloratura soprano of great international fame. Tetrazzini "had a scintillating voice with a brilliant timbre and a range and agility well beyond the norm...". She enjoyed a highly successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s. Her voice lives on in recordings made from 1904–1920. She wrote a memoir, My Life of Song, in 1921 and a treatise, How to Sing, in 1923. After retirement, she taught voice in her homes in Milan and Rome until her death.

Daniel_Egan

Daniel Egan (c. 1803 – 16 October 1870) was an Australian politician who served as Mayor of Sydney in 1853. He was also a member of the New South Wales Parliament.Egan was born in Windsor, New South Wales and was a foreman at the Government Dockyards, Sydney from 1824 to its closure in 1835. He then went into business and acquired several trading and whaling vessels but went bankrupt in 1843 and later became a wine and spirit merchant. He became an alderman of the Sydney City Council on its creation in 1842, resigning due to his bankruptcy. He returned as an alderman in 1846, rising to mayor in 1853. He purchased two 40-acre (16 ha) blocks of land in Beacon Hill in 1857.
Egan was elected to the Legislative Council on 1 April 1854, representing the Pastoral District of Maneroo. In April 1856 he was elected at the first election to the Legislative Assembly, representing Maneroo, which was renamed Monara in 1858. He was defeated for Monara at the 1859 election, but had been elected for the adjoining district of Eden which he held until 1869. He was defeated for Eden in December 1869, but won the election for Monara in January 1870. From 27 October 1868 until his death he was the Postmaster-General of New South Wales in the second Robertson and fifth Cowper ministries.Egan died on 16 October 1870(1870-10-16) (aged 66–67) at his home in the Sydney harbourside suburb of Watsons Bay.