James Tarleton
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Background
James Madison Tarleton was born in 1808 at New Castle, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United States of America.[1]
Tarleton was American Consul living in Melbourne, and as the representative of the Americans in Victoria he was responsible for overseeing the conduct of potentially unruly Americans in Victoria. [2]
He died in 1880 and was buried at the Congressional Cemetery, Washington.[3]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
A dinner at Ballarat's Victoria Hotel on 28 November 1854 was attended by James Tarleton.[4]
Tarleton was the American Consul, at the time of the Eureka Stockade, who wrote to Governor Charles Hotham, on the authority of Mr. Nichols, an American in Ballarat, that Americans did not participate in the Ballarat encounter. [5]
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
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