Francis Labilliere

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Francis Peter Labilliere (13 August 1840 – 19 February 1895)[1] was an Anglo-Australian historian.

Labilliere was born in

Huguenot-descended Charles Edgar de Labilliere and his wife Hannah, née Balle (died 1880).[1] Charles and Hannah de Labilliere travelled in the Westminster, the second ship which sailed from England direct for the Port Phillip District, and landed in Melbourne in December 1839.[2] Charles de Labilliere engaged in pastoral pursuits at Tallook Yale, near Bacchus Marsh, and later died in London on 2 November 1870.[2]

Francis Labilliere, went to England with his father in 1859; entered at the

Sir Frederick Young in the honorary secretarial work of the society before it was in a position to maintain a paid staff. As appears by the correspondence laid before Parliament in 1876, he was the first to suggest the annexation of Eastern New Guinea, in a long letter addressed in 1874 to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, a copy of which was sent, with a covering despatch, by Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon to each of the governors of the Australian colonies.[2]

In 1878 Labilliere's "Early History of the Colony of Victoria" appeared, in two volumes. It corrected the previously received date of the discovery of

Port Phillip Bay, and brought to light many facts and documents which had been forgotten, or never before made public.[2] de Labilliere resided at Harrow in his latter years[2] and died there on 19 February 1895.[1]

Works

  • The Future Relations of England and her Colonies
  • Imperial and Colonial Federalism (1871)
  • The Permanent Unity of the Empire (1875)
  • The Early History of Victoria: From its Discovery to its Establishment as a Self-governing Province of the British Empire (1878)
  • The Political Organisation of the Empire (1885)
  • Imperial Federation (1886)
  • The Contraction of England, and its Advocates
  • Federal Britain: or, Unity and Federation of the Empire (1894)

References

  1. ^ a b c Penny, B. R. "Labilliere, Francis Peter (1840–1895)".
    ISSN 1833-7538
    . Retrieved 10 December 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Mennell, Philip (1892). "de Labilliere, Francis Peter" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.

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