Blue Book, Colony of Victoria, 1858 – Wardens of the Gold Fields


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Port Phillip District (1836-1851) Colony of Victoria (1851-1900) Victoria (1901-1929)

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Bodies:

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Courts of Petty Sessions Gold Wardens Crown Lands Chinese Protectorate

Roles:

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Gold Wardens

Roles:	The column headed R [Role] is the assigned role.
	The columns headed PM [Police Magistrate], GF [Gold Commissioner (1851-1855) or Warden of the Gold Fields (1855-1907)], CL [Commissioner of Crown Lands], and CP [Chinese Protector] show the Golden Colony roles that each person held at the same time. They do not include other roles, which may be indicated in the Comments column or on the person's profile page.
	= Government Office (Paid), = Government Duties (Unpaid), = On leave, = To be determined.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book, CL = Commissioner of Crown Lands, CP = Chinese Protector, CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions, GC = Gold Commissioner, GR = Gold Receiver,
	GW = Warden of the Gold Fields, JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate), PM = Police Magistrate,
	FN = Footnotes, PSL = Public Service List S/S1/S2 = Source, TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed, = Reappointed (under new legislation), = Promoted, = Demoted, = Redesignated, = Transferred, = Replaced/Succeeded,
	= Position made permanent, = Paid as (role).

Assignments:	The location or district the person was assigned to. A number is the OP column (Other Places) means that they also sat at that many other locations of Courts of Petty Sessions. The number of other locations changed from time to time as courts were created, abolished, or reassigned.

Sources (S1, S2):	= Blue Book, = Blue Book derived, = Government Gazette, = Government Gazette derived, = Public Service List, = Public Service List derived,
	= Report, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document, = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract, = Cemetery, = Census, = Legal,
	= Newspaper family notice, = Newspaper article, = Book/Magazine, = Other, = Unconfirmed, = Military service record, = Internet.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format, "Ongoing" = Continues into next calendar year, New date, Date changed in source, Date died, Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed information.

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Comments

The existing Wardens were re-appointed under the terms of the new Gold Fields Act 1857 [21 Victoria 32] on 4 January 1858.

The five “full time” Chinese Protectors – Drummond, W H Foster, Hamilton, Standish, and Graham Webster – were given the added duties of Wardens of the Gold Fields, as was the Police Magistrate Clissold.

Wardens of the Gold Fields

BB	Name	Title	S	Gazette	From	To	Assignment	Comments	Next
V1858	Amos, Gilbert Andrew	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Arnold, Thompson Graham	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Barnard, Edward Thomas	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Brackenbury, Walter Charles	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-06-07		GW.	Dismissed.
V1858	Bull, John Edward Newell	Resident Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing	Castlemaine	GW.
V1858	Carr, Charles Warburton	Warden	R		1858-06-08	Ongoing
V1858	Clissold, Stephen Thomas	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing
V1858	Clow, James Maxwell	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Cogdon, John Montague	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Crespigny, Philip Robert Champion	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Daly, James	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Doveton, Francis Crossman	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Dowling, Charles Cholmeley	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Drummond, William Henry Murray	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing
V1858	Fenwick, William	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-12-05		GW.
V1858	Fenwick, William	Warden	R		1858-12-06	Ongoing		On leave (12 months).
V1858	Foster, William Henry	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing
V1858	Gaunt, William Henry	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Hamilton, John Prendergast	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing
V1858	Heron, Thomas Denis Stratford	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Lane, Henry Bowyer Joseph	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Lowther, Gorges Macdonald	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Mackenzie, Robert Cleghorne	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	McCrae, Andrew Murison	Warden	R		1858-10-21	Ongoing	Kilmore
V1858	Mollison, Crawford	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-09-09		GW.	Resident GW.
V1858	Mollison, Crawford	Resident Warden	R		1858-09-10	Ongoing	Sandhurst	Panton.
V1858	Morphy, John Stephen	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Murray, Virginius	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Resident Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-08-31	Sandhurst	GW.
V1858	Panton, Joseph Anderson	Resident Warden	R		1858-09-01	Ongoing	Sandhurst	On leave (12 months).
V1858	Price, Matthew	Resident Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing	Beechworth	GW.
V1858	Pyke, Vincent	Warden	R	1858-10-11	1858-10-22	Ongoing
V1858	Sherard, Charles Wale	Resident Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing	Ballarat	GW.
V1858	Shuter, Charles	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Smith, Alexander John	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Smith, Bernhard William	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Standish, Frederick Charles	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-08-31		GW.	Chief Commissioner of Police.
V1858	Taylor, James Grant	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	1858-12-31		GW.	Resident GW.
V1858	Templeton, William	Resident Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing	Avoca	GW.
V1858	Thompson, George Agar	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Webster, Graham	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing
V1858	Willoby, William Allan	Warden	R	1858-01-04	1858-01-04	Ongoing		GW.
V1858	Wills, Alfred Currie	Warden	R	1858-02-08	1858-02-08	Ongoing	Omeo

References

Sources

	Registrar-General's Office, Victoria; Statistics of the Colony of Victoria for the Year 1858; Parliament of Victoria, Melbourne, 1859 (VPARL 1859-1860, No 9) [BB1858].
	Various issues of the Victoria Government Gazette, 1858.

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