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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
Robert Monckton married his childhood sweetheart, whose father was a solicitor in Faversham. Bendan Hassell was married to Robert Monckton's sister.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
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Robert Monckton married his childhood sweetheart, whose father was a solicitor in Faversham. [[Benden Hassell]] was married to Robert Monckton's sister.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
  
Upon his return to England Robert Monckton "established himself as a financier – something between a stock-broker and a fund-manager, and lived in High Victorian opulence in a mansion at Sevenoaks. His financial empire collapsed with the London stock market in 1896. Many of Monckton's “funds”, though reduced by the stock-market crash to so many pennyworths of unsalable paper, recovered their value in the course of the following decades returning the family to comfortable means.
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Upon his return to England Robert Monckton "established himself as a financier – something between a stock-broker and a fund-manager, and lived in High Victorian opulence in a mansion at Sevenoaks. His financial empire collapsed with the London stock market in 1896. Many of Monckton's “funds”, though reduced by the stock-market crash to so many pennyworths of unsalable paper, recovered their value in the course of the following decades returning the family to comfortable means.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
  
 
Robert Monckton discovered almost at the moment of his financial ruin that he was suffering from an advanced cancer of the bowel. He died and his eldest son, on his return from the sea, established himself as a physician in a more fashionable part of the metropolis where he could accommodate his mother and his younger siblings.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
 
Robert Monckton discovered almost at the moment of his financial ruin that he was suffering from an advanced cancer of the bowel. He died and his eldest son, on his return from the sea, established himself as a physician in a more fashionable part of the metropolis where he could accommodate his mother and his younger siblings.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
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When they returned to England they were both quite rich men.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
 
When they returned to England they were both quite rich men.<ref>Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.</ref>
 
  
 
== Family ==
 
== Family ==
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==See also==
 
==See also==
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[[Benden Hassell]]
  
 
[[Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case]]
 
[[Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case]]

Latest revision as of 17:37, 1 January 2018

Background

Robert Monckton married his childhood sweetheart, whose father was a solicitor in Faversham. Benden Hassell was married to Robert Monckton's sister.[1]

Upon his return to England Robert Monckton "established himself as a financier – something between a stock-broker and a fund-manager, and lived in High Victorian opulence in a mansion at Sevenoaks. His financial empire collapsed with the London stock market in 1896. Many of Monckton's “funds”, though reduced by the stock-market crash to so many pennyworths of unsalable paper, recovered their value in the course of the following decades returning the family to comfortable means.[2]

Robert Monckton discovered almost at the moment of his financial ruin that he was suffering from an advanced cancer of the bowel. He died and his eldest son, on his return from the sea, established himself as a physician in a more fashionable part of the metropolis where he could accommodate his mother and his younger siblings.[3]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Post 1854 Experiences

Robert Monckton was a publican at the London Hotel Eureka when he signed the Benden Hassell Petition in 1856.[4]

In 1856 the pair became flour millers and the Argus reported that they were ready “to commence the erection of a large and complete mill” at the swamp. This was Yuille’s Swamp which is now known as Lake Wendouree.

Bendan Hassell and Robert Monckton returned to England in 1865[5] after selling their flour mill on Wendouree Parade to Mr Fry of Ascot for £4,500.

When they returned to England they were both quite rich men.[6]

Family

Robert Monckton 1. Son 2. Maurice Monckton 3. daughter

When the London Stockmarket collapsed in 1896 Robert Monckton's eldest child, was either nearing the end of, or had just finished, his training as a medical practitioner and took a post as a ship’s medical officer in order to make some money under conditions where he would have little opportunity to spend it. His younger brother, Maurice, still a mere boy of about 16, had to be taken out of Tonbridge School –and was sent as an office-boy to a ship-broking firm called Harris and Dixon on the Baltic Exchange in the City of London; from which he retired as a member of the Board of Directors in 1946 after fifty years in the same firm. Their sister, having only the rudimentary education dispensed at the period to little girls of good family and great expectations, remained at home with her parents – home having been reduced from the Victorian splendours of Sevenoaks, to a humble apartment in an extremely unfashionable suburb of London. [7]


Newsworthy

In 1855 Henry Davis (Geelong) embezzled 90 pounds and upwards from the London Hotel. [8]


FIFTY YEARS
BALLARAT'S EARLY HISTORY AS CHRONICLED IN THE "STAR."
We notice that an old townsman, Mr Robert Monckton, of the firm of Hassell and Monckton, has returned from Europe and is now paying a visit to Ballarat.[9]

Family

MONCKTON.—On 24th March, at Modena Lodge, Tonbridge, England, the wife of Robert Monckton of a son.[10]

See also

Benden Hassell

Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case

Further Reading

Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.

References

  1. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  2. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  3. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  4. Wickham, Dorothy, Shot in the Dark: Being the Petition for the Compensation Case of Benden S. Hassell, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1998.
  5. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  6. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  7. Information from Descendant Christopher Monkton, 14 March 2017.
  8. Government Gazette 26 June 1855
  9. Ballarat Star, 27 October 1917.
  10. Ballarat Star, 23 May 1878.

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