Samuel Irwin
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Background
Irwin was a jouralist 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]
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.[8]
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
- ↑ Ballarat Star, 5 May 1857
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