William Edward Stanbridge
| William Edward Stanbridge | |||||||||||||
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| Born | 1821 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 1894 | ||||||||||||
| Residence | Wombat Daylesford Victoria NSW | ||||||||||||
| Occupation | political | ||||||||||||
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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
External 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