John Pascoe Fawkner

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John Pascoe Fawkner (Batchelder & Co.), c1867. State Library of Victoria (H13540)

Background

John Pascoe Fawkner was born on 20 October 1792 at Cripplegate, London, the son of John Fawkner, a metal refiner, and Hannah Pascoe. His father was convicted of receiving stolen goods and in 1801 was sentenced to fourteen years transportation. With his mother and younger sister, Elizabeth, John accompanied his father to the new settlement to be formed in Bass Strait. They joined H.M.S. Calcutta at Portsmouth and sailed on 29 April 1803 in company with the Ocean, carrying a number of free settlers and stores.[1]

Fawkner died on 4 September 1869 at his home in Smith Street, Collingwood.[2]

John Pascoe Fawkner

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

To the Right Worshipful the Mayor of Melbourne... [from] the undersigned Inhabitants of Melbourne considering the Unsettled State of a portion of the Diggings, and the necessity measures for the Better PROTECTION OF THE CITY, and upholding the cause of Law and Order, hereby request your Worship to convene A PUBLIC MEETING... John Ferres, Government Printer, 05 December 1854. State Library of Victoria Collection (H141396).

After the opening of the goldfields of Victoria in 1851, Fawkner devoted much of his time to the legislative aspects of gold-mining problems. He sat on some ninety-six select committees between 1852 and 1869, the most far-reaching in its effect being the Commission of Inquiry into the goldfields in 1854-55. He was alarmed by the Chinese and American immigrants, and saw both groups as potential sources of disorder. The presence of the Chinese might lead to civil war, he considered; he would have liked to expel them all. In September 1855 he wrote of 'wild Americans—who know no law but the Bowie Knife, the Rifle or Lynch practice'.[3]

Post 1854 Experiences

See also

John Fawkner's House on the Yarra River [Melbourne]

Further Reading

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


References

  1. ↑ Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037/text2517, accessed 17 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037/text2517, accessed 17 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Hugh Anderson, 'Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792–1869)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037/text2517, accessed 17 September 2013.

External links

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/fawkner-john-pascoe-2037


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