Robert Rede

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Poster, 3 December 1854,
 :NOTICE.-Government Camp, Ballarat.
December 3, 1854
Her Majesty's forces were this, morning fired upon by a large number of evil disposed persons of various nations, who had entrenched themselves in a stockade on the Eureka, and some officers and men killed or wounded.
Several of the rioters have paid the penalty of their crimes, and a large number are in custody.
All well-disposed persons are earnestly requested to return to their ordinary occupations, and to abstain from assembling in large groups, and every protection will be afforded to them by the authorities.
ROBT REDE
Resident Commissioner. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!
Courtesy Ballarat Heritage Services.

Background

Robert Rede died in July 1904. [1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

A Digger Hunt, University of Ballarat Historical Collection (Cat.No. 4170)

In June 1854 Robert Rede became the Ballarat Gold Commissioner. [2]

On 30 November 1854 Robert Rede, Resident Gold Fields Commissioner at Ballarat, ordered a large scale 'digger hunt'. [3]

Post 1854 Experiences

Rede later officiated as Sheriff during the 1880 hanging of bushranger Ned Kelly.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag


Obituary

EUREKA VETERAN DEAD. News has been received of the death of Colonel Robert Rede, ex-sheriff and at one time a member of the police force. Deceased was a police commissioner at Ballaratt at the time of the Eureka riots.[4]

See also

Further Reading

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


References

  1. Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle, 14 July 1904.
  2. Supplement to the Ballarat Courier, 27 March 1998, p. 3.
  3. Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart, Australian Military History Publications, 2009, p.75.
  4. Bairnsdale Advertiser and Tambo and Omeo Chronicle, 14 July 1904.

External links

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rede-robert-william-4457/text7263