Panton, Joseph Anderson

Joseph Anderson Panton, 1831-1913




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Life Events


Born:2 June 1831Knockiemill, Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland [01].
Baptised:16 June 1831Turriff, Aberdeenshire, Scotland [02].
Arrived:10 March 1851Sydney, Colony of New South Wales, on the ship Thomas Arbuthnot. Departed Portsmouth, 28 November 1850 [03].
Married:5 December 1860Mission Church, Inverness, Invernessshire, Scotland to Eleanor Margaret Fulton [1839-1896] [04] [05].
Died:25 October 1913Carannya, Alexander Street, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia [residence], aged 82 years [06] [07].
Buried:27 October 1913St Kilda Cemetery, East St Kilda, Victoria, Australia [Grave: Other, Compartment C, No 0026] [08] [09].

Golden Colony Roles



Portait of Panton by his daughter, Alice Panton [10]

Career


OriginalGazettedFromToAgeRTitleStateDepartmentDistrictSCommentsFN
1852-05-271852-05-291852-12-3120Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Commission
1853-01-011853-01-011853-12-3121Senior Assistant CommissionerVictoriaGold Commission
1854-01-011854-01-011855-06-3022Resident CommissionerVictoriaGold CommissionSandhurst
1855-07-011855-07-011858-08-3124Resident WardenVictoriaGold DepartmentSandhurst
1857-06-201857-06-201859-04-0126Police MagistrateVictoriaSandhurstResigned whilst on leave
1858-02-081859-04-0126Chinese ProtectorVictoriaResigned whilst on leave
1858-09-011858-09-011859-04-0127On 12 months' unpaid leave. VictoriaGold DepartmentResigned whilst on leave
1862-08-111862-08-111864-12-3031Receiver and Paymaster, Gold ReceiverVictoriaTreasuryCastlemaine
1862-08-251862-08-251864-12-3031Land OfficerVictoria
1864-12-311864-12-31186533Police Magistrate (Acting)VictoriaAnderson's Creek
18651869-0234Police MagistrateVictoriaHeidelberg
1869-021869-0337Police MagistrateVictoriaGeelong
1869-031907-0637Police MagistrateVictoriaMelbourne

References


Notes

Notes
01 Turriff Parish Records. [ScotlandsPeople (Membership required) 6 March 2024].
02 Baptisms - Panton; Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [FamilySearch, 6 March 2024].
03 Shipping Intelligence - Arrivals; The Sydney Morning Herald, 11 March 1851, p 2 [Trove, 22 April 2023].
04 Marriages - Panton-Fulton; Scotland Marriages, 1561-1910 [FamilySearch, 6 March 2024].
05 Marriages - Panton-Fulton; Inverness Courier, 6 December 1860, p 8 [Find My Past (Membership required) 6 December 1860].
06 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1913-015120.
07 Deaths - Panton; The Argus (Melbourne), 27 October 1913, p 1 [Trove, 6 March 2024].
08 St Kilda Cemetery Deceased Search - Joseph A Panton [ 23 February 2024].
09 Funeral Notices - Panton; The Argus (Melbourne), 27 October 1913, p 1 [Trove, 23 February 2024].
10 National Gallery of Victoria [ 24 October 2024].

Further Reading

Memoirs:Joseph Anderson Panton, Hugh Anderson [Editor]; Strength in Battle: The Memoirs of Joseph Anderson Panton, Goldfields Commissioner and Magistrate; Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, 2018.
Biography:Terry Davidson; Man of Stature - J A Panton: Law, Land and Service, 1831-1913; Publishing Productions, Burwood, 2024.
Biography:Vivienne Worthington; The Man History Forgot; Publishing Productions, 2018.
Biography:Alan Gross; Panton, Joseph Anderson (1831-1913); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 23 February 2024].
Profile:Panton, Joseph Anderson (1831-1913); in: Justin Corfield, Dorothy Wickham, Clare Gervasoni; The Eureka Encyclopaedia; Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004; pp 419-420.
Profile:Joseph Anderson Panton (1831-1913); Friends of St Kilda Cemetery [ 5 November 2024].
Profile:The All Rounder; in: Meyer Eidelson; Nation Builders: Great Lives and Stories from St Kilda General Cemetery; Friends of St Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, 2001; p 77.
Profile:Panton, Joseph Anderson (1831-1913); in: Joan Kerr (Editor); The Dictionary of Australian Artists: Painters, Sketchers, Photographers and Engravers to 1870; Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1992; pp 601-602.
Profile:Panton, Joseph Anderson; in: Fred Johns; Johns's Notable Australians and Who is Who in Australasia [2nd Edition]; Fred Johns, Adelaide, 1908; p 243.
Profile:New Series of Table Talk Anecdotal Photographs, No III: Mr J A Panton, CMG, PM, FRGS : Table Talk (Melbourne), 27 June 1901, pp 16-18 [ 16 November 2024].
Profile:Panton, Joseph Anderson; in: H Morin Humphreys; Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series [2nd Edition]; McCarron, Bird, and Co, Melbourne, 1882; pp 163-164.
Profile:Joseph Anderson Panton; Wikipedia [ 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2024-03-06Life Events updated and references added.