Lonsdale, William

William Lonsdale, 1799-1864




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Life Events


Born:2 October 1799Holland.
Arrived:14 December 1831Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship Bussorah Merchant. Departed Dublin, 16 August 1831 [01].
Married:4 April 1835Port Macquarie, Colony of New South Wales, to Martha Smythe.
Departed:25 July 1854Returned to England on leave on the P&O steamer Norna [02].
Died:28 March 1864Sackville Street West, London, England [residence], aged 64 years [03].
Buried:March 1864TBD

Golden Colony Roles


Port Phillip:Police Magistrate:1831183218331834183518361837183818391840

William Lonsdale [04]

Career


OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1819-07-081819-07-081824-03-0319Ensign, 4th Regiment of FootBritish Army Lieutenant.
1824-03-041824-03-041834-07-1024Lieutenant, 4th Regiment of FootBritish Army Adjutant. Captain.
1824-03-181824-03-181834-07-1024Adjutant, 4th Regiment of FootBritish Army
1834-07-111834-07-111837-06-2234Captain, 4th Regiment of Foot British ArmyRetired by sale of Commission.
1835-11-021835-11-011836-09-17Superintendent of GuardNSWParramatta
1835-11-021835-11-011836-09-17Assistant Police MagistrateNSWParramatta
1836-01-021836-01-021855-11-2636Magistrate (Justice of the Peace)NSW
1836-09-181836-09-091836-09-181840-05-3136Police MagistrateNSWPort Phillip Sub-Treasurer.
1840-06-011840-06-151840-06-011851-06-3040Sub-TreasurerNSWPort Phillip to Colony of Victoria. Colonial Secretary.
1846-10-121846-10-121846-10-121847-0247Superintendent (Acting)NSWPort PhillipWhilst La Trobe in Van Diemen's Land.
1851-07-011851-07-151851-07-011853-07-2051Colonial SecretaryVictoria Colonial Treasurer.
1853-07-211854-03-281853-07-211855-11-2653Colonial TreasurerVictoriaRetired.
1854-0754VictoriaOn leave for 18 months.
1855-11-271864-03-2856TBDEnglandReturned to England. Died.

References


Notes

Notes
01 Shipping Intelligence - Arrival; The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, 15 December 1831, p 2 [Trove, 8 April 2024]. Lonsdale was in charge of a detachment of the 4th Regiment, escorting 196 convicts.
02 Shipping Intelligence - Cleared Out; The Argus (Melbourne), 26 July 1854, p 4 [Trove, 2 November 2024].
03 Deaths - Lonsdale; The Argus (Melbourne), 14 June 1864, p 4 [Trove, 12 July 1923] - Originally in the London Morning Advertiser, 1 April 1864, p 8. His age is given as 63 years.
04 Edmund “Garryowen” Finn; The Chronicles of Early Melbourne, 1835-1852, Volume 1; Fergusson and Mitchell, Melbourne, 1888.

Further Reading

Biography:John M Wilkins; The Life and Times of Captain William Lonsdale "Nieuwe Dieper," 1799-1864; John M Wilkins, Doncaster East, 1991.
Biography:B R Penny; Lonsdale, William (1799-1864); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 23 February 2024].
Obituary:Lonsdale, William (1799-1864); Obituaries Australia [ 23 February 2024].
Profile:Lonsdale, William (1799-1864); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; p 336.
Profile:William Lonsdale (colonist); Wikipedia [ 23 October 2024].
Statistics:William Lonsdale; Parliament of Victoria [ 5 November 2024].
Statistics:Kathleen Thomson, Alan Serle; A Biographical Register of the Victorian Parliament 1859-1900; Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1972; p 120.

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2022-01-31Life Events updated and references added.