William Edward Stanbridge

William Edward Stanbridge
Born	1821
Died	1894
Residence	Wombat Daylesford Victoria NSW
Occupation	political
Society Membership membership ESL, ASL, AI Ordinary Fellow - life compounder ASL Local Foreign Secretary Wombat ASL Foundation Fellow left 1899.05 last listed (though presumably already dead) elected_ESL 1861.04.16 elected_AI 1863 elected_ASL 1863.08.05 societies Philosophical Institute of Victoria

Notes

House Notes

ESL 1863.02.17 It was resolved that, in consideration of peculiar circumstances, the sum of £10, sent by Mr Stanbridge from Australia, should be accepted as his composition, but that it was to be understood that this should not be taken as a precedent.

Notes From Elsewhere

politician, member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (inf from Susan Kruss email)
William Edward Stanbridge Esq. (1821-1894) was the first non-Indigenous licensee of Tyrrell Station (1847-1873).
In 1857, Stanbridge delivered an address to the Philosophical Institute in Melbourne on the night sky as seen by the Boorong People of north-western Victoria.

The Life & Legacy of William E. Stanbridge
The Hon William Edward Stanbridge (Esq, M.L.C., J.P.) was a prominent figure in colonial Victoria during the second half of the nineteenth century. After leaving England to pursue his fortune in Australia, he became a wealthy pastoralist and mining investor, a prominent politician, philanthropist, supporter of women’s suffrage, and a writer of Aboriginal knowledge, yet little has been written about his life. His papers on Boorong society and astronomy are not only the only records of that culture in the literature, but continue to yield new discoveries 150 years later

Publications

House Publications

ESL the general characteristics, mythology and astronomy of the aborigines of Central Victoria South Australia from observations made during a residence of 18 years