George Thompson
George Black, an influential member of the Ballarat Reform League, bought and edited the Diggers Advocate, a radical newspaper, launched in Ballarat by George Thompson and Henry Holyoake. The Diggers Advocate played an important role in the events leading up to the Eureka Rebellion.[1]
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Background
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
In The News
... Mr. Dunne appeared for, the following prisoners, who were likewise discharged, there being no evidence against them to warrant a committal :— Patrick Gilhooly, Walter Ryley, John Powell, Joseph Penrose, Robert Winkfield, Durald Magennes, John Quin, Edmund Burn, Wm. James Steer, Arthur Smith, Kennedy O'Brien, Martin Kinnear, Matthew Orr, Alexander Ross, Robert Leslie, George Thompson, Martin Ryan, Thomas Box, Thomas Ferdinand Tighe, and John Cahill. ...[2]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ http://www.peacebus.com/Eureka/111128ToscanoMedia.html
- ↑ Hobart Colonial Times, 19 December 1854.
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