Author: MCCAUGHEY, DAVIS; PERKINS, NAOMI; TRUMBLE, ANGUS.
Title: Victoria's Colonial Governors. 1839-1900.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 4to; pp. xx, 453; 51 pages of b/w and colour illustrations, explanatory note on archival sources archival directory; bibliography, index, 3 fold appendix, bound in original brown cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, very good copy. Melbourne; Miegunyah Press; 1993. Davis McCaughey, himself Governor from 1986 to 1992, Naomi Perkins and Angus Trumble, have drawn on hitherto unpublished letters, documents and photographs in British and Australian archives to piece together the elaborate story of the hopes and fears, trials and achievements, friends and adversaries, changing role and expectations, imagery and daily life of each of the governors of Victoria from 1939 to 1900.

Keywords: Australian local history colonial governors Australia Victoria Grimwade charles La Trobe hotham barkly darling john manners sutton george bowen henry loch hopetoun brassey