Author: FOSTER, S. G.
Title: Colonial Improver. Edward Deas Thomson 1800-1879.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 209; 8 b/w. plates, abbreviations, references, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1978. Thomson was a colonial administrator par excellence. Born in Edinburgh in 1800, he spent almost fifty years of his life in New South Wales. Between 1837 and 1856 he was colonial secretary, a position second in importance only to that of governor, and this enabled him to play a vital role in the colony's growth as a free society.
Keywords: local history Australian New South Wales Australia biography Edward Deas Thomson government
Title: Colonial Improver. Edward Deas Thomson 1800-1879.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. xvi, 209; 8 b/w. plates, abbreviations, references, bibliography, index, bound in original black cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. Carlton; Melbourne University Press; 1978. Thomson was a colonial administrator par excellence. Born in Edinburgh in 1800, he spent almost fifty years of his life in New South Wales. Between 1837 and 1856 he was colonial secretary, a position second in importance only to that of governor, and this enabled him to play a vital role in the colony's growth as a free society.
Keywords: local history Australian New South Wales Australia biography Edward Deas Thomson government
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- Book number: 115605
- Book number: 115605