Lonsdale, William

William Lonsdale, 1799-1864

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Explanations:
Columns:R [Role]; S [Sources].
Roles: = Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.
Abbreviations: BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; 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; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.
Sources (S, S1, S2): = Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.
Other Symbols: = External link.
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.
Unconfirmed:All text in magenta is unconfirmed.
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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 FootBritish Army Retired.
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.