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  Clement Hodgkinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clement Hodgkinson (1818 1893) was a notable English naturalist, explorer and surveyor of Australia.
When Hodgkinson later returned to the valley, members of the Yarrahappinni accompanied him to assure the locals that his intentions were benign.
Hodgkinson was involved in the Royal Society of Victoria, which discussed and advised the colonial government on scientific issues.
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 The Hodgkinson Family Tree
Clement Hodgkinson in 1843 Australia, was the first white explorer to trek north from Kempsey to the Clarence River.
Hodgkinson is on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, and the Longy School of Music in Cambridge.
Hodgkinson, who has struggled in recent seasons to match her form of 1996-97 when she reached the final of the 800m at the Atlanta Olympics, was pipped by 0.1 seconds by Australian Tamsyn Lewis in a thrilling finish at Stadium Australia.
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 Famous Hodkinsons and Hodgkinsons
Clement Hodgkinson was born in England in 1818, his first visit to the Australian colonies was for a period of two years in the early 1840s.
Hodgkinson was fascinated with the aborigines and included many detailed accounts of their customs and behaviour.
William Oswald Hodgkinson was a prominent member of the entrepreneurial class in North Queensland during the early years of the 'gold rushes' and had a colourful and somewhat chequered career arising out of a presumably middle class upbringing in industrial England in the mid-nineteenth century.
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 History
From 1860 responsibility for the government reserves was exercised by Clement Hodgkinson, the new administrative head of the Lands Department, who took a detailed interest in the planning and development of the city parks.
'Mr Clement Hodgkinson, the Assistant Commissioner of Lands and Survey, has taken a great interest in these gardens, and it is principally owing to his careful supervision that they have been made to look what they are now.
Hodgkinson had been brought out of retirement to sit on this committee, and this was probably his last opportunity to advise on the future of the public gardens he had done so much to build.
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 Haunted Bookshop News Archives
For we Adams dwell in a large decrepit pile built around 1860 by one Clement Hodgkinson, an associate of Governor La Trobe and an energetic surveyor of sewers.
odd thing that happened was my discovery of two dozen whale-bone corsets in the cellar which suggested that Clement Hodgkinson was either a transvestite or an organiser of orgies with ample, colonial matrons.
Mind you, there was the mystery of the fountain, a slimy circle of fl water in the front garden that would lie there for months on end without losing a drop, only to drain empty on odd nights.
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 St Vincent Gardens
It is the central focus of the unique nineteenth century, urban, planning development of St Vincent's place.
Clement Hodgkinson designed this urban scheme in 1868.
St Vincent's is a garden of significant mature tree specimens registered with the National Trust and is locally significant for the social focus the gardens provide to the neighbourhood.
www.portphillip.vic.gov.au /stvincent_gardens.html   (536 words)

  
 Mt Evelyn Community Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Vigneron Clement Deschamps had timber-cutters at work at Billygoat Hill (located within the curved section of Russell Street) and Bullock Hill (the West Hill Drive area) in the 1860s.
Hardy re-named the creek ‘Olinda’ after Alice Olinda Hodgkinson, daughter of Deputy Surveyor-General Clement Hodgkinson.
Residents of the little settlement in the valley, between the creek and what is now Swansea Road, gave their address as ‘Olinda Creek, Lilydale’ in the early 1900s.
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 Melbourne, Victoria, VIC, Travel Guide Australia
A Melbourne businessman bought the cottage Cook's parents had lived in northern England, had it dismantled, and brought it to the gardens brick-by-brick.
Directly opposite the Fitzroy Gardens are the Treasury Gardens, laid out in 1867 by Clement Hodgkinson, then assistant commissioner of lands and Survey.
Since 1953 it has been the home of an annual art exhibition, and its most recent modification came in 1963 when the lake area was re-modelled to accommodate a rose garden and the President Kennedy Memorial.
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 Melbourne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
This allowed landscape designer Clement Hodgkinson and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, William Guilfoyle, to landscape many of the parks and gardens into the spectacular designs that are enjoyed today.
Due to their central location close to the city, they are a popular spot as the starting or ending point for political rallies, demonstrations and festivals, including the annual May Day march, which has been held there since 1999.
Across Lansdowne Street from Treasury Gardens are the Fitzroy Gardens, one of the major Victorian era landscaped gardens in Australia designed by Clement Hodgkinson.
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 Lee Street
There was much contentious discussion regarding the reasons for this lack of progress until a report by Clement Hodgkinson in 1872 stated:
Clement Hodgkinson was appointed to prepare new designs.
He recommended gravelled walks, avenues of elms, entrance gates facing Queensberry and Gertrude Streets, a lake and mound on the west side (where the traffic school now is), the planting of beds of flowers and the placement of statues at various points in the gardens.
www.unimelb.edu.au /infoserv/lee/htm/carlton_parks.htm   (9679 words)

  
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Exotics were favoured over indigenous species, but the populace was becoming aware of the beauty of the natural vegetation and attempting to bring it onto their verandahs.
In Victoria, Clement Hodgkinson, a major figure in planning forests, replanted the Brighton foreshore with mainly indigenous trees and shrubs, although maybe he had a pragmatic view rather than the ecological response of today.
He noted she-oaks could be ‘cheaply obtained … by sending a trustworthy man with a spring wagon to…Frankston where seedlings of these trees are procurable’.
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 Walkabout - Macksville
It is probable that the first Europeans in the area were two cedar-cutters and William Miles, a stockman from Yarrabandinni, who explored the Nambucca and Bellinger Rivers while searching for timber in 1839.
Miles then guided surveyor Clement Hodgkinson into the area in 1841.
The first white settlers began to take up land after the 1861 Lands Act, establishing large dairy herds.
www.walkabout.com.au /fairfax/locations/NSWMacksville.shtml   (964 words)

  
 Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The gardens were initially designed by Clement Hodgkinson and planted by park gardener, James Sinclair, as a dense woodland with meandering avenues.
The land originally had been swampy with a creek draining into the Yarra River.
Clement Hodgkinson, the head of the Lands Department, takes a detailed interest in the planning and development of the city parks, including Fitroy Gardens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fitzroy_Gardens,_Melbourne   (812 words)

  
 City Museum Melbourne (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Its layout was also subject to change, until the design laid out in 1858 by Assistant Commissioner of the Lands Department, Clement Hodgkinson, was finally settled on.
The gardens were also designed by Clement Hodgkinson, and were developed in response to a petition from local residents for a recreational reserve.
The Treasury Gardens were the last to pass into the management of the Melbourne Council, in 1929, having been reserved as a potential development site for the extension of Treasury Place.
www.oldtreasurymuseum.org.au.cob-web.org:8888 /exhibitions/gardensstory.html   (1055 words)

  
 Early Images of the Australian Aborigines : Rare Books Exhibition
"Dance at the Conclusion of the Cavarra Ceremonies" in HODGKINSON, Clement, Australia, from Port Macquarie to Moreton Bay; with descriptions of the natives, their manners and customs.
Clement Hodgkinson (1818-1893) was a government surveyor in the northern rivers district of New South Wales from 1840-42.
Hodgkinson finishes his chapter on the aborigines with some observations on attempts to civilise them.
www.lib.monash.edu.au /exhibitions/aborigines/xaborcat.html   (11246 words)

  
 City of Melbourne - Parks - Treasury Gardens (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Gardens were set out at roughly the same time as the adjoining Fitzroy Gardens in the 1860s, but were primarily planted up to improve the view to the State Government buildings on Spring Street.
Clement Hodgkinson laid the Gardens out to a relatively simple design – a pattern of diagonally crossing paths lined with trees.
Their only ornament was a willow-fringed pond, which the director of the Botanic Gardens, William Guilfoyle, transformed into a Japanese garden at the turn of the 20
www.melbourne.vic.gov.au.cob-web.org:8888 /info.cfm?top=25&pa=1273&pg=1307&bp=2286&coll=21   (973 words)

  
 Chapter 2: Prelude
A series of government reports, and regional public meetings, together with constant newspaper agitation, had led first to the creation of a number of local forest boards and then, on 6 March 1874, to the establishment of a Central Forest Board to oversee the entire system.
This board originally comprised Robert Brough Smyth, Clement Hodgkinson and Ivey as secretary, but five days after his appointment Hodgkinson retired and was replaced by Wallis and the new Secretary for Lands, W. Archer.
This Board operated from within the Department of Agriculture and through a network of local caretakers and the regional boards strove to bring a semblance of order to the disorganised forest system of Victoria.
www.landfood.unimelb.edu.au /dean/book2/ch2.html   (6938 words)

  
 Broadwalk Business Brokers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The first Presbyterian Church was built in 1842, the first Methodist Church in 1846 and the Church of England school became a state school in 1848.
Surveyor Clement Hodgkinson passed through the area in 1840 and left some impressions of 'the town, built on a gentle rise, which shows to advantage its pretty little cottages with pointed roofs, its broad straight streets...and its tall square church tower...A grove of magnificent trees encircles Port Macquarie'.
However, like most of the colony, Port Macquarie was hit hard by the depression of the 1840s.
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 The Royal Society of Victoria Inc
Clement Hodgkinson; C.E. Member 1855 District Surveyor Soc:PSV (1) Setting up etc.of R'way Earthworks: (2) Prob.
Clement Hodgkinson; C.E. Vice-President 1856 Society: PIV Geology of Upper Murray area;
Clement Hodgkinson; C.E. Council Member 1860 Deputy Surveyor-General Society: RSV
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 Edinburgh Gardens
The Edinburgh Gardens can be found in St. George's Road North Fitzroy.
Queen Victoria provided the grant of land for the gardens and they were laid out in 1865 by Clement Hodgkinson.
The original design incorporated an existing creek as well as ponds and billabongs.
www.whitehat.com.au /melbourne/Parks/Edinburgh.asp   (654 words)

  
 History - Bowraville.org.au (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Their descendents can still be found living in the valley
In March 1841 Clement Hodgkinson explored the upper reaches of the Nambucca and Bellinger Rivers.
He was the first European to make contact with the local Aboriginal community.
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 Green light for listing boosts city's gardens - National - www.theage.com.au
The site was established as a public garden in 1862.
In 1865, the assistant commissioner for Crown Lands, Clement Hodgkinson, designed the original, informal style, later redesigned by John Guilfoyle.
Original pathways to the Victoria Market are still visible, while the garden's character now reflects the changes made between the 1890s and 1920s.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2004/04/04/1081017035959.html?from=storyrhs   (346 words)

  
 Science and the making of Victoria, Hodgkinson, Clement
Science and the making of Victoria, Hodgkinson, Clement
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 Speaker's Media Release 3/10/2003 - Parliament of Victoria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I am pleased that with rain in the recent weeks, these water storage units are fully operational with water collected.”
“The Parliament House Gardens are an important part of our precinct, which were established through the 1860’s and 1870’s by famous landscape designers Clement Hodgkinson and William Guilfoyle.
William Guilfoyle is best known for his contribution to the Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne”;, said Judy Maddigan.
www.parliament.vic.gov.au /speaker/media/2003/10/03   (277 words)

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