Edmund Lockyer
Edmund Lockyer | |
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Born | Plymouth, Devon | 21 January 1784
Died | 10 June 1860 Woolloomooloo | (aged 76)
Burial place | Camperdown Cemetery |
Known for | Founder of first British settlement in western half of Australia |
Edmund Lockyer, (21 January 1784 – 10 June 1860) was a British soldier and explorer of Australia.
Born in
In August 1825, Lockyer was instructed by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane to lead an expedition to explore the upper reaches of the Brisbane River. A convict-supported settlement had been established at Redcliffe the year before. On 2 September, Lockyer sailed from Sydney in the cutter Mermaid, arriving at Brisbane on 7 September. Leaving the Mermaid at Brisbane, he travelled in a small boat up the river. Lockyer saw coal in deposits on the banks, becoming the first person to identify coal in Queensland. Lockyer arrived back in Sydney on 16 October 1825, and made a report to Governor Brisbane.[3][4]
In late 1826, Lockyer led an expedition to claim
The military base established by Lockyer was named Frederick Town, later renamed
In 1852 Lockyer was appointed serjeant-at-arms to the New South Wales Legislative Council and on 16 May 1856 he became the council's first Usher of the Black Rod.[9] In September 1854 he was commissioned a captain on the formation of the Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps, a citizens' militia force.[10]
On 18 November 1854, Lockyer married Elizabeth Colston. Elizabeth's brother William Edward Colston (1839-1895) was to be great-great-great-grandfather of Queensland senator Mal Colston.[11][12][13][14]
Lockyer died from the effects of influenza on 10 June 1860 at his home in Bay Street, Woolloomooloo and was buried in Camperdown Cemetery, Sydney.[2][15]
The Sydney suburb of
References
- ^ "Major Lockyer, 1886?/William Macleod". Manuscripts oral history and pictures. State Library of New South Wales. 1886. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ a b "Major Lockyer Inscription on Tomb. Founder of Western Australia". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 12 January 1931. p. 10. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ "Founding of Brisbane". Canberra: The National Museum of Australia. Retrieved 22 December 2021.
- ^ Lockyer, Nicholas Colston Sir (1920). "Exploration by Major Edmund Lockyer of the Brisbane River in 1825". Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland. 2. Brisbane: 54–73. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Vol. XXIV, no. 1258. New South Wales, Australia. 11 November 1826. p. 2.
- ^ "Criminal Court". Hobart Town Gazette. Vol. XI, no. 551. Tasmania, Australia. 25 November 1826. p. 2.
- State Records Authority of New South Wales. Archived from the originalon 24 June 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- The Argus. Melbourne. 12 January 1931. p. 6. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
- ^ "Friday, May 16, 1856". The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser. Maitland, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 20 May 1856. p. 3. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ "Sydney Volunteer Rifle Corps". Colonial Times and Tasmanian. Hobart, Tasmania. 19 September 1854. p. 3. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
- ^ "James Forsyth Colston". Colston and Wenck genealogy pages. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "William Edward Colston". Colston & Wenck Genealogy Pages. Archived from the original on 15 October 2007. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Arthur Alfred Colston". Colston & Wenck Genealogy Pages. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Douglas Thomas Colston". Colston & Wenck Genealogy Pages. Archived from the original on 9 July 2013. Retrieved 12 November 2018.
- ^ "Latest Intelligence". Bendigo Advertiser. Bendigo, New South Wales: National Library of Australia. 12 June 1860. p. 2. Retrieved 29 June 2014.
- ^ Albany Centenary Committee; W.F. Forster & Co (1927), Centenary of Western Australia : Albany, 1827-1927 : to commemorate the first settlement of Western Australia by Major Lockyer, H.M. 57th Regiment, who hoisted the British flag at Albany on 21st January, 1827, W.F. Forster, retrieved 4 February 2017
Further reading
- "Lockyer, Edmund (1784–1860)". ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 4 December 2014.
- Lockyer, Sir Nicholas (4 July 1929). "Albany's Story". Western Mail. Western Australia. p. 7 (The Western Mail CENTENARY NUMBER). Retrieved 1 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- Arrived in NSW May 1825. 1825 Lockyer and the Ipswich area
- 1826-1827 King Georges Sound
- Info on family tree
- 1856 First the Usher of the Black Rod in New South Wales. Australia's first smelter Archived 8 February 2006 at the Wayback Machine