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Dr James Reed was born in Ireland in 1815. He graduated in Medicine at Edinburgh, and surgury at Dublin. In 1851 he travelled to South Australia as ships doctor on the [[Gloucestor]]. He was at Fryers Creek for a year, and registered Medical Officer at the Quarantine Station from 1852-1860. He transferred to the Penal Depot until 1876, then Clunes until 1880. | Dr James Reed was born in Ireland in 1815. He graduated in Medicine at Edinburgh, and surgury at Dublin. In 1851 he travelled to South Australia as ships doctor on the [[Gloucestor]]. He was at Fryers Creek for a year, and registered Medical Officer at the Quarantine Station from 1852-1860. He transferred to the Penal Depot until 1876, then Clunes until 1880. | ||
− | Dr Reed died on 20 November 1880 aged 65. | + | Dr Reed died on 20 November 1880 aged 65.<ref>Keith Bowden, Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields, SP, 1974.</ref> |
==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854== | ==Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854== |
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Background
Dr James Reed was born in Ireland in 1815. He graduated in Medicine at Edinburgh, and surgury at Dublin. In 1851 he travelled to South Australia as ships doctor on the Gloucestor. He was at Fryers Creek for a year, and registered Medical Officer at the Quarantine Station from 1852-1860. He transferred to the Penal Depot until 1876, then Clunes until 1880.
Dr Reed died on 20 November 1880 aged 65.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1853-1854
A. Rich signed the 1853 Bendigo Goldfields Petition. Agitation of the Victorian goldfeelds started with the Forest Creek Monster Meeting in 1851, but what became known as the Red Ribbon Movement was centred around the Bendigo goldfields in 1853. The Anti-Gold License Association was formed at Bendigo in June 1853, led by George Thomson, Dr D.G. Jones and 'Captain' Edward Browne. The association focused its attention on the 30 shillings monthly licence fee miners were required to pay to the government. They drew up a petition outlining digger grievances and called for a reduced licence fee, improved law and order, the right to vote and the right to buy land. The petition was signed by diggers at Bendigo, Ballarat, Castlemaine, McIvor (Heathcote), Mount Alexander (Harcourt) and other diggings. The 13 metre long petition was presented to Lieutenant-Governor Charles La Trobe in Melbourne on the 01 August 1853, but their call for a reduction in monthly licence fees and land reform for diggers was rejected. The diggers dissatisfaction erupted into the Red Ribbon Rebellion where agitators wore red ribbons on their hats symbolising their defiance of the law and prohibitive licence fees.
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Ballarat Reform League Inc. Monuments Project
Further Reading
References
- ↑ Keith Bowden, Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields, SP, 1974.
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