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==Background==
 
==Background==
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Samuel Irwin was born in Northern [[Ireland]].
  
 
Irwin was a journalist with the [[Ballarat Star]] where he was an important contributor on the character of Governor [[Charles Hotham]]. Irwin was also a correspondent for the Geelong Advertiser. <ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
 
Irwin was a journalist with the [[Ballarat Star]] where he was an important contributor on the character of Governor [[Charles Hotham]]. Irwin was also a correspondent for the Geelong Advertiser. <ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
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He sold [[Raffaello Carboni]]’s book ''The Eureka Stockade''. <ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
 
He sold [[Raffaello Carboni]]’s book ''The Eureka Stockade''. <ref>Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., ''Eureka Research Directory'', Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.</ref>
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== Obituary ==
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:A BALLARAT IDENTITY. 
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:In the obituary columns of Monday's Argus there appeared the announcement of the death of Mr. Samuel Irwin, at one time a resident of Ballarat, and who was a justice of the peace for that city. The late Mr. Irwin was, I believe, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and was intended for the ministry of the Ulster Presbyterian Church, he being a native of the North of [[Ireland]]; but like many young men of the period he was seized with the gold fever and emigrated to Victoria instead. In fact I am not certain if he was not in the colony previous to the gold discoveries. At all events he was a very early settler, and was well known and respected at [[Ballarat]]. If not in the affair of the [[Eureka Stockade]], he was very near to it, as I heard at the time. He was for a considerable period correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser, was editor of the [[Ballarat Times]], and subsequently became co-proprietor of the [[Ballarat Star]] with Mr. Thomas Drummond Wanliss, a well known and much respected citizen of the great goldfield of Ballarat. Mr. Irwin was the proprietor of some very valuable blocks of land in the immediate neighbourhood of the city, which he sold for as many hundreds as he would have got thousands for, had he held them for a few years longer. He was, though a well educated man, of a very retiring and unassuming disposition, and, like many of the old pioneers, did not succeed in making a fortune. He married early in the sixty's, but so far as known to me, has left no family. His wife met with an accident in the Jolimont railway disaster, and received liberal compensation. Mr. Irwin was for some time private secretary to one of the Ministers of tho Crown, who held office some years ago, since which time I lost sight of him, and was surprised and sorry to read of his death at the comparatively early age of sixty years. Many old friends who knew the deceased gentleman in the old days of Ballarat, will regret to hear of his death.<ref>Bendigo Advertiser, 26 October 1887.</ref>
  
 
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[[Ballarat Reform League]]
 
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[[Thomas Wanliss]]
  
 
==Further Reading==
 
==Further Reading==

Revision as of 14:33, 11 June 2016

Background

Samuel Irwin was born in Northern Ireland.

Irwin was a journalist with the Ballarat Star where he was an important contributor on the character of Governor Charles Hotham. Irwin was also a correspondent for the Geelong Advertiser. [1]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Irwin witnessed the Burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel, and was a member of Ballarat Reform League. [2] On 26 October1854 Samuel Irwin paid the 250 pound bail for Andrew McIntyre.[3] He was the informant for the death certificates of Martin Diamond, George Donaghey, Patrick Gittings, John Hynes and Michael Mullins.

Irwin wrote a letter calling on the Creswick diggers to join the fight. [4]

Post 1854 Experiences

Irwin supported Peter Lalor’s electoral nomination.[5]

Irwin was a journalist who signed the Benden Sherritt Hassell Compensation Case Petetion in 1855. With J.J. Ham he was the first editor of the Ballarat Star in 1855. In 1855 Irwin was on the Ballarat Hospital Committee, and the provisional committee of the Ballarat Gas Company in 1857. [6]

He sold Raffaello Carboni’s book The Eureka Stockade. [7]

Obituary

A BALLARAT IDENTITY.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
In the obituary columns of Monday's Argus there appeared the announcement of the death of Mr. Samuel Irwin, at one time a resident of Ballarat, and who was a justice of the peace for that city. The late Mr. Irwin was, I believe, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, and was intended for the ministry of the Ulster Presbyterian Church, he being a native of the North of Ireland; but like many young men of the period he was seized with the gold fever and emigrated to Victoria instead. In fact I am not certain if he was not in the colony previous to the gold discoveries. At all events he was a very early settler, and was well known and respected at Ballarat. If not in the affair of the Eureka Stockade, he was very near to it, as I heard at the time. He was for a considerable period correspondent of the Geelong Advertiser, was editor of the Ballarat Times, and subsequently became co-proprietor of the Ballarat Star with Mr. Thomas Drummond Wanliss, a well known and much respected citizen of the great goldfield of Ballarat. Mr. Irwin was the proprietor of some very valuable blocks of land in the immediate neighbourhood of the city, which he sold for as many hundreds as he would have got thousands for, had he held them for a few years longer. He was, though a well educated man, of a very retiring and unassuming disposition, and, like many of the old pioneers, did not succeed in making a fortune. He married early in the sixty's, but so far as known to me, has left no family. His wife met with an accident in the Jolimont railway disaster, and received liberal compensation. Mr. Irwin was for some time private secretary to one of the Ministers of tho Crown, who held office some years ago, since which time I lost sight of him, and was surprised and sorry to read of his death at the comparatively early age of sixty years. Many old friends who knew the deceased gentleman in the old days of Ballarat, will regret to hear of his death.[8]

In the News

Census. MESSRS. R SCOTT, P. Reade, A. Lessman, J. Stodart, J. H. Magill, and E. Devereux, arc requested to call on thc under- signed immediately, to amend certain census papers, necessary for the payment of their salaries.
S. IRWIN,
Enumerator for North Grant Ballarat 5th May, 1857.
Municipality of Ballarat East.[9]

See also

Ballarat Reform League

Thomas Wanliss

Further Reading

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

References

  1. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  2. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  3. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  4. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  5. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  6. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  7. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  8. Bendigo Advertiser, 26 October 1887.
  9. Ballarat Star, 5 May 1857

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