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William Bland (5 November 1789 – 21 July 1868) was a prominent public figure in the colony of New South Wales. A surgeon by profession, he arrived in Australia as a convict but played an important role in the early years of Australian healthcare, education and science. Bland was born in London and became a surgeon in the Royal Navy, serving on the East Indies Station. He was convicted of murder in 1813 after killing a crewmate in a duel in Bombay. He was sentenced to penal transportation, initially to Van Diemen's Land and then to New South Wales, where he was assigned to work at the Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum. He received a pardon in 1815 owing to the lack of qualified medical practitioners in the colony. As one of the few surgeons in New South Wales, Bland practised medicine in Sydney for over 50 years. He developed new surgical techniques and improvised surgical instruments, publishing papers in ''The Lancet'' and later in the ''Australian Medical Journal''. He was the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Barron Goodman
George Barron Goodman, also known as George Baron Goodman, was a practitioner of the Daguerreotype in the 1840s and Australia’s first professional photographer. He was also one of the first to hold the rights to use Louis Daguerre, Daguerre's process in the British Colonies. Early life George Barron Goodman was the son of A. Goodman of Nottingham Terrace, Regent's Park London.Family Notices (1843, January 6). The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848), p. 3. Retrieved January 17, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article37114546 Geoffrey Batchen claims that "‘George Bar(r)on Goodman’ is an Anglicised inflection of Gershon Ben Avrahim, the daguerreotypist’s name by birth." Sydney, 1842 After buying rights to use the daguerreotype process in the British Colonies from Richard Beard (photographer), Richard Beard, Goodman set sail from England for Australia.An Eye for Photography, Alan Davies, State Library of New South Wales, Miegunyah Press, 2000, p. 4-6 In November 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum
Castle Hill Lunatic Asylum was Australia's first official institution which provided care for the mentally ill. It was located approximately north of Parramatta Parramatta (; ) is a suburb (Australia), suburb and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It is co ... in New South Wales. Established by Lachlan Macquarie in May 1811, it operated until 1826. It was housed in a two-storey stone building, previously a granary, which also served as a barracks at one time. George Suttor, farmer and pioneer settler, was superintendent of the lunatic asylum from August 1814 to February 1819, when he was dismissed on charges of using lunatic labour on his farm. Former naval surgeon William Bland – a convicted murderer – was a physician at the asylum from 1814 until he received a pardon in 1815. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squattocracy
In the history of Australia, squatting was the act of occupying tracts of Crown land, typically to graze livestock. Though most squatters initially held no legal rights to the land they occupied, the majority were gradually recognised by successive colonial authorities as the legitimate owners of the land due to being among the first (and often only) white settlers in their area. The term ''squattocracy'', a play on aristocracy, was coined to refer to squatters as a social class and the immense sociopolitical power they possessed. Evolution of meaning The term ''squatter'' derives from its English usage as a term of contempt for a person who had taken up residence at a place without having legal claim. The use of ''squatter'' in the early years of British settlement of Australia had a similar connotation, referring primarily to a person who had occupied pastoral land not granted to them by the colonial authorities. From the mid-1820s, however, the occupation of legally unoccu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1843 New South Wales Colonial Election
The 1843 New South Wales colonial election was held between 15 June and 3 July 1843 and was Australia's first colonial election. This election was for 24 seats in the New South Wales Legislative Council and it was conducted in 15 single-member constituencies, two 2-member constituencies and one 5-member constituency, all with a first past the post system. This included 6 members in what became the Colony of Victoria and a single member for the coast north of Newcastle. The Legislative Council was a hybrid system with 36 members, 24 elected, 6 appointed by virtue of their office (Chief Secretary of New South Wales, Colonial Secretary, Treasurer of New South Wales, Colonial Treasurer, Auditor-General of New South Wales, Auditor-General, Attorney General of New South Wales, Attorney General, Commander of the forces and Collector of Customs) and 6 nominated. The appointments and elections were for five year terms. The right to vote was limited to men aged over 21 who owned property w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Patriotic Association
The Australian Patriotic Association is considered the first political party in Australia. It was formed in 1835 by a group of influential colonists of New South Wales which had among its leaders William Wentworth, the son of a convict woman and the publisher of the influential newspaper ''the Australian''; Sir John Jamison, a surgeon and founder of the Agricultural Society; and William Bland, a prominent emancipist doctor.Encyclopædia BritannicaAustralian Patriotic Association/ref> Members included prominent businessman Prosper de Mestre, Samuel Terry, W.E. Riley, J. Blaxland and A.B. Spark. In September 1834 Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, M.P., wrote from England that the situation in the colony was not well understood in London, and suggested that an organised association should be formed, and that it should appoint a parliamentary agent for New South Wales.John CobleyBland, William (1789–1868) ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 1, MUP, 1966, pp 112–115. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
