George Levey
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Background
Gorge Collins Levey was born in 1835.
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
As a journalist Levey covered the Eureka Stockade for Melbourne newspapers. On 02 December 1854 he was briefly kept a prisoner inside the Eureka Stockade. Levey gave evidence on the Irish before Royal Commission. He estimated that 863 men took up arms at Eureka, and around half were Irish. Levery later became a newspaper editor and politician.[1]
Post 1854 Experiences
Obituary
- Outliving almost all his contemporaries, Mr George Collins Levey, C.M.G., formerly a, well-known Victorian public man and journalist, has just died in England in his 84th year. From 1863 to 1868 Mr Levey was editor and principal proprietor of "The Herald" and during part of that period (1866 to 1867) he represented Normanaby in the Legislative Assembly. It is claimed for Mr Levey that he popularised journal ism In Melbourne by issuing "The Herald" at one penny. In 1868 he be came editor of ' "The Age" and after he retired from that petition he continued as a contributor to that journal. Coming to Australia from London in 1851 when 16 years of age, he was in the Victorian Government service for a while as clerk to the Gold Receiver, but subsequently went into the mining industry and introduced machinery for quartz crushing. He was secretary to several exhibition commissions, and for his services at the Paris Exhibition in 1878 he obtained the Companionship of St. Michael and St. George, and the Order of the French Legion of Honor. Among several works which, he published was a "Handy Guide to Australia." In 1863 he married Miss E. D. Ligar, "daughter of Mr C W. Ligar, Surveyor-General of Victoria, and a few years after her death became the husband of Mrs J. E. Bouligny, widow of a former member of the United States Congress for New Orleans, Louisiana.—[2]
In the News
- Mr. George Levey has been appointed secretary to the approaching Exhibition.[3]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
