James Bonwick
James Bonwick
| James Bonwick FRGS | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1817 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1906 | ||||||||||||
| Residence |
13 Alfred Rd, Acton [1869] c/o W. Beddow, 22 South Audley Street; St Kilda, Melbourne [1879] 2 Balmoral Terrace, Mill Hill Park, Acton, W [1881] Hayward's Heath, Sussex [1883] Yarra Yarra, South Vale, Upper Norwood SE [1888] 39 Sprules Road, Brockley, SE [1903] | ||||||||||||
| Occupation |
educator literary | ||||||||||||
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Contents
Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1878 Member
House Notes
8 Jan. 1889: It was resolved that all future subscriptions from Mr James Bonwick should be remitted in consideration of his services to Anthropological Science.
death noted in report of the council for 1906: To the death of Mr. Bonwick attention has already been called in a short obituary notice published in Man, 1906, 25. He became a member of the Ethnological Society in 1869, and was subsequently a fellow of the Institute from the foundation of the latter. He was the author of several works, dealing chiefly with the natives of Tasmania. The Institute will greatly regret the loss of a Fellow of so long standing.
Notes From Elsewhere
James Bonwick (8 July 1817 – 6 October 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer.
Born Lingfield, Surrey, died Southwick, near Brighton.
Between 1841 and 1880s spent much of the time in Australia.
Publications
External Publications
John Batman (1867);
The Last of the Tasmanians, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, and Curious Facts of Old Colonial Days, all of which were published in 1870;
Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (1878), First Twenty Years of Australia (1882),
Port Phillip Settlement (1883),
Romance of the Wool Trade (1887)
and Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions (1894).
