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	Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford Encyclopedia Articles @ 216.92.11.26 () (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford GCB (Markethill, County Armagh August 1, 1776 – March 27, 1849 Markethill) was a British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor General of British North America in the 19th century.
		Gosford attempted to distance himself from his predecessor, Lord Aylmer, who had exacerbated the hostility of French-Canadians to the British administration.
		Gosford officially established the Diocese of Montreal in 1836, though it had been unofficially created a few years before.
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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2d earl of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		GOSFORD, ARCHIBALD ACHESON, 2D EARL OF [Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2d earl of], 1776-1849, governor in chief of British North America (1835-37).
		He served in the British House of Commons and, after succeeding (1807) to his Irish peerage, was elected Irish representative peer in the House of Lords in 1811.
		In 1835 he was appointed governor of British North America—excepting Newfoundland—and a royal commissioner to inquire into the state of affairs in Lower Canada.
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		'The founder of the Irish branch of the family was Archibald, eldest son of Capt. Patrick Acheson, a cadet of the family of Acheson [of Gosford, East Lothian, and Acheson House, The Canongate, Edinburgh].
		Sir Archibald Acheson [5th Bt (1717-1790)], who was in 1776 created Baron Gosford of Markethill, and in 1785 was advanced to the dignity of a viscount, was described as a steady friend to the government, and a most respectable man. He was the father of...
		The Acheson estate consisted originally of all or part of the manors of Baleek, Coolmalish [alias Clancairney?] and Drumorgan, Co. Armagh, mainly in the Markethill and Hamiltons Bawn areas of the county.
	www.proni.gov.uk /records/private/gosford.htm (2992 words)

	Walkabout - Gosford
		Gosford is characterised by steep hills and valleys with extensive state forests to the west and north-west and the Tuggerah Lakes to the north.
		Governor Phillip and a party of officers and seamen entered Broken Bay in a whaleboat in 1788, five weeks after establishing the settlement at Sydney Cove.
		West Gosford lies on the other side of Henry Kendall Bridge which is aptly named as there is a cottage at West Gosford which was temporarily home to Kendall, one of Australia's most famous colonial poets, who was befriended by the children of an important early settler in the district, Peter Fagan.
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	Mann Street South Heritage Walk — Gosford City Council
		Archibald Acheson was appointed Governor of British North America in 1835, and conducted a royal commission into the state of affairs in Lower Canada.
		When the original 1839 survey map of the area was sent to Governor Gipps in Sydney, the map called the proposed township Point Frederick (after Frederick Augustus Hely, local landowner and Superintendent of Convicts who had died in 1836) The map was returned with the annotation "to be called Gosford".
		East Gosford was an early private township on Brisbane Water, established in a period when the Government of the time were very slow to develop services in the district.
	www.gosford.nsw.gov.au /library/local_history/heritage.html (4425 words)

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	Gosford - Central Coast Australia
		Governor Arthur Phillip and a small group of officers and marines made a brief exploration of Broken Bay and a tributary called the "north-east arm" in 1788, after establishing the settlement at Sydney Cove just five weeks before.
		The first township was established at East Gosford by Samuel Peek in the 1830’s, with a government township originally known as the Township at Point Frederick being surveyed and established between Narara and Erina Creeks.
		Gosford became a town in 1885 and was declared a municipality in 1886.
	www.centralcoastaustralia.com.au /AreaInfo/towns_Gosford.asp (1194 words)

	governor - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about governor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Scottish inventor James Watt invented the steam-engine governor in 1788.
		It works by means of heavy balls, which rotate on the end of linkages and move in or out because of centrifugal force according to the speed of rotation.
		The governor and his family are served and attended by domestics of a kind somewhat unusual.
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	AllRefer.com - Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2d earl of (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Gosford, Archibald Acheson, 2d earl of[goz´furd] Pronunciation Key, 1776–1849, governor in chief of British North America (1835–37).
		In 1835 he was appointed governor of British North America : excepting Newfoundland : and a royal commissioner to inquire into the state of affairs in Lower Canada.
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	The Gosford connections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Gosford House is in Scotland, Gosford Castle is in Northern Ireland.
		Perhaps Gosford City Council should consider replacing its emblem of a pelican with one of a goose, because a painstaking internet search has revealed that the name Gosford means "the goose ford".
		Acheson, who was the British Government's Secretary of State for Scotland, became the first Earl of Gosford in 1776.
	localhistory.ngfl.gov.uk /discovery.php?id=336 (1668 words)

	Sharp's House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The present Gosford Castle, which lies just outside the village of Markethill, was the third to have been erected in the demesne by the Acheson family, and was designed by Thomas Hopper for Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford, who was for a time Governor of Lower Canada.
		The Achesons' first house was a fortified tower that was destroyed in the 1640 Rebellion; their second house was visited by Dean Swift in the late 1720s, and at one time he planned to build a house nearby.
		The old Gosford demesne is now known as Gosford Forest Park; it has been managed by the Forestry Division of the Department of Agriculture since 1969, and in 1987 it became the first 'conservation forest' designated by the Department.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Acheson, Dean Gooderham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Acheson, Dean Gooderham ACHESON, DEAN GOODERHAM [Acheson, Dean Gooderham], 1893-1971, U.S. Secretary of State (1949-52), b.
		Middletown, Conn. He was (1919-21) private secretary to Louis D. Brandeis, became a successful lawyer, and served (1933) as Undersecretary of the Treasury until he resigned in disagreement with
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		Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (August 1, 1776 - March 27, 1849) was a British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and Governor-General of British North America in the 19th century.He was a Member of the House of Commons in Britain, and entered the House of Lords in 1811.
		In August of that year Gosford dissolved the Legislative Assembly when they refused to pass his budget.In November, Lord Gosford learned of the planned Patriotes Rebellion and had many of Papineaus followers arrested, although Papineau himself escaped to the United States.
		The next month, he issued a reward for the capture of Papineau, and declared martial law in Lower Canada.Lord Gosford resigned in November 1837 and returned to Britain the next year.
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	CanadaInfo: Government: Federal: Governor General: Former Governors General
		elow are lists of the former Governors General of New France and British North America before Canada became an independant nation in 1867, and a list of the former Governors General of Canada since 1867.
		Two members of the Royal Family have held this post: the Duke of Connaught and the Earl of Athlone.
		The first Canadian born Governor General was Vincent Massey.
	www.craigmarlatt.com /canada/government/ggs.html (144 words)

	The National Archives \| Search the archives \| National Register of Archives \| Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford: corresp and papers as governor-in-chief of British North Am
		Acheson family, Earls of Gosford: family and estate papers
		Frederick Augustus Hervey, Bishop of Derry and 4th Earl of Bristol: political and family papers inc
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nra/searches/regdocs.asp?LR=255 (1216 words)

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