People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

8 December, 1837
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland

Death

16 July, 1923 (aged 85)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Cultural Heritage

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• Scottish

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Methodist

Occupation or Descriptor

• agrarian reformer
• agricultural writer
• company director
• explorer
• farmer
• goldminer
• grazier (unspecified)
• land reformer
• Member of Lower House
• newspaper editor
• protectionist politician
• temperance advocate

Key Places

• Coranderrk Station (Vic)