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==Background==
 
==Background==
  
Peter Lalor was born on 05 February 1827 at Tenakill, Queen's County, [[Ireland]].<ref>Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.</ref>  
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Peter Lalor was born on 05 February 1827 at Tenakill, Queen's County, [[Ireland]].<ref>Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.</ref> Educated at Carlow College and in Dublin, Lalor became a civil engineer. <ref>http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lalor-peter-3980</ref>
  
 
James Finton Lalor, the brother of Peter Lalor, became a leader of Irish Confederation and the 'Young Ireland' Movement of 1848. <ref>Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.</ref>
 
James Finton Lalor, the brother of Peter Lalor, became a leader of Irish Confederation and the 'Young Ireland' Movement of 1848. <ref>Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. ''The Eureka Encyclopaedia'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.</ref>
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:... Dr Lalor, the son of Peter Lalor, observed that he was not an orator, and he believed he had never attempted to make a speech before in his life; but he was the only relative of Peter Lalor there, otherwise he might ask somebody else to make a speech for him. He thought the best thing he could do was to give a few particulars of his father which might be unknown to some present. He was born in Queen’s County on the 5th February, 1827, the youngest and smallest of 18 children - 17 boys and one girl. He came to Australia in 1852 with his brother Richard, who went back about a month afterwards and became M.P. for Queen’s County. [[Peter Lalor]] had told the speaker that he was very proud of being called a miner, and said he would rather be called that than K.C.M.G. or any other title. He always said miners were the leaders of civilisation. Dr Lalor agreed with that. Take the Phoenecians, for example. With a population no bigger than that of an English county, they ruled the world at one time simply because they were miners. They went to [[Cornwall]], where the best miners in the world come from, and got tin and lead. The Cornish were crossed with the Phoenicians, and he was sure were proud of it. It was Plutarch, he believed, who said wherever there was gold mines there was civilisation. He thanked the gathering in the name of his deceased father the reception given him. ...<ref>Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.</ref>
 
:... Dr Lalor, the son of Peter Lalor, observed that he was not an orator, and he believed he had never attempted to make a speech before in his life; but he was the only relative of Peter Lalor there, otherwise he might ask somebody else to make a speech for him. He thought the best thing he could do was to give a few particulars of his father which might be unknown to some present. He was born in Queen’s County on the 5th February, 1827, the youngest and smallest of 18 children - 17 boys and one girl. He came to Australia in 1852 with his brother Richard, who went back about a month afterwards and became M.P. for Queen’s County. [[Peter Lalor]] had told the speaker that he was very proud of being called a miner, and said he would rather be called that than K.C.M.G. or any other title. He always said miners were the leaders of civilisation. Dr Lalor agreed with that. Take the Phoenecians, for example. With a population no bigger than that of an English county, they ruled the world at one time simply because they were miners. They went to [[Cornwall]], where the best miners in the world come from, and got tin and lead. The Cornish were crossed with the Phoenicians, and he was sure were proud of it. It was Plutarch, he believed, who said wherever there was gold mines there was civilisation. He thanked the gathering in the name of his deceased father the reception given him. ...<ref>Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.</ref>
 
 
 
  
 
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854==
 
==Goldfields Involvement, 1854==

Revision as of 00:28, 24 April 2013

Peter Lalor, Picturesque Atlas of Australasia.

Background

Peter Lalor was born on 05 February 1827 at Tenakill, Queen's County, Ireland.[1] Educated at Carlow College and in Dublin, Lalor became a civil engineer. [2]

James Finton Lalor, the brother of Peter Lalor, became a leader of Irish Confederation and the 'Young Ireland' Movement of 1848. [3]

Peter Lalor died on 09 February 1889 at Richmond, Victoria. He is buried in the Melbourne General Cemetery.

... Dr Lalor, the son of Peter Lalor, observed that he was not an orator, and he believed he had never attempted to make a speech before in his life; but he was the only relative of Peter Lalor there, otherwise he might ask somebody else to make a speech for him. He thought the best thing he could do was to give a few particulars of his father which might be unknown to some present. He was born in Queen’s County on the 5th February, 1827, the youngest and smallest of 18 children - 17 boys and one girl. He came to Australia in 1852 with his brother Richard, who went back about a month afterwards and became M.P. for Queen’s County. Peter Lalor had told the speaker that he was very proud of being called a miner, and said he would rather be called that than K.C.M.G. or any other title. He always said miners were the leaders of civilisation. Dr Lalor agreed with that. Take the Phoenecians, for example. With a population no bigger than that of an English county, they ruled the world at one time simply because they were miners. They went to Cornwall, where the best miners in the world come from, and got tin and lead. The Cornish were crossed with the Phoenicians, and he was sure were proud of it. It was Plutarch, he believed, who said wherever there was gold mines there was civilisation. He thanked the gathering in the name of his deceased father the reception given him. ...[4]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Peter Lalor Statue, Sturt Street, Ballarat, c1954.

Lalor was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [5]

He was the leader of the Eureka Stockade uprising, escaping authorities after the battle. Policeman Michael Lawler is thought to have shot Lalor in the shoulder, which resulted in the amputation of the arm. [6]

Post 1854 Experiences

Peter Lalor became Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.

See also

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lalor-peter-3980/text6289

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.
  2. http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lalor-peter-3980
  3. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  4. Ballarat Courier, 05 December 1904.
  5. Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.
  6. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.

External links

http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/art/lalor/tenakill.htm