Victoria's colonial governors, 1839-1900 / Davis McCaughey, Naomi Perkins, Angus Trumble.
Publication details: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1993.Description: xix, 453 p., 1 folded leaf, 8 p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 25 cmISBN:- 0522845096 :
- Political science
- Governors -- Australia -- Victoria -- History
- Governors -- Victoria -- Biography
- Governors -- Victoria -- History
- Politics and government
- Governors
- Governors -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography
- Governors -- Australia -- Victoria -- Biography
- Victoria -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- Victoria -- Politics and government -- 1834-1900
- Victoria -- Politics and government
- Victoria
- Victoria -- History
- Australia, Victoria -- Officials and employees
- Australia, Victoria -- Social life and customs
- Governors Australia Victoria Biography
- Victoria History
- Victoria Politics and government
- 994.5020922 20
- DU222.A2 M37 1993
- 15.95
- 7,29
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.502 MCC | Available | 070354 |
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 423-436.
Charles Joseph La Trobe -- Sir Charles Hotham -- Sir Henry Barkley -- Sir Charles Darling -- Sir John Manners-Sutton (Lord Canterbury) -- Sir George Bown -- The Marquess of Normanby -- Sir Henry Loch -- The Earl of Hopetoun -- Lord Brassey.
"Marooned in a distant land, pestered by squatters, buffeted by the radical press, besieged by petitioners, lectured by the Colonial Office, sandwiched between the two houses of the Legislature, and swamped with correspondence dealing with every conceivable aspect of colonial life - from the annexation of Fiji to dodo skeletons - the lot of a colonial governor in nineteenth-century Victoria was impossibly complicated.
Prince Leopold wanted it. Gladstone puzzled over it. Lord Dufferin turned it down. It ruined Sir Charles Darling, fascinated Sir Henry Barkly, enriched Sir Henry Loch, bemused Lord Hopetoun, cost Sir George Bowen his promotion and killed Sir Charles Hotham. The governorship of Victoria was one of the more difficult jobs in the colonial service, carried the highest salary, and its occupants were pivotal in the constitutional development of Victoria.." -- Inside cover
