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  Henry Goulburn - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
HENRY GOULBURN (1784-1856), English statesman, was born in London on the 19th of March 1784 and was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
In the domain of finance Goulburn's chief achievements were to reduce the rate of interest on part of the national debt, and to allow any one to sell beer upon payment of a small annual fee, a complete change of policy with regard to the drink traffic.
Although Peel himself did some of the chancellor's work, Goulburn was responsible for a further reduction in the rate of interest on the national debt, and he aided his chief in the struggle which ended in the repeal of the corn laws.
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 Goulburn History
Named after Henry Goulburn, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, it is the oldest provincial city in Australia, becoming a municipality in 1859, and a, city on 14 March, 1863 when Royal Letters Patent creating the Anglican See, were gazetted.
Goulburn is a busy city of commerce, and an administrative centre for a variety of State Government departments and instrumentalities which, in 1982, employed nearly half the local workforce.
'Goulburn', he continued, 'had grown to be, if not the "loveliest", at all events one of the liveliest "villages of the plain" The population grew steadily.
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 Walkabout - Goulburn
Goulburn, one of the nation's earliest inland settlements, is located on the Southern Tablelands at the confluence of the Mulwaree and Wollondilly Rivers.
Goulburn's reputation as a producer and exporter of fine merino wool was established in the early 1830s although transportation to Sydney was agonisingly slow until the 1850s.
The grave of energetic exploratory pastoralist Patsy Durack is in the pioneer cemetery.
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 Multitext - "Henry Goulburn’s Letter to Archbishop Beresford"
Henry Goulburn (1784–1856), Conservative politician, had been appointed as chief Secretary for Ireland, 1821–7, under Richard Colley Wellesley and was unpopular in Ireland because of his earlier opposition to the Catholic Disability Removal Bill.
Goulburn supported the Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington, and Sir Robert Peel in their opposition to the granting of Catholic Emancipation.
Memorandum by Henry Goulburn, Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Wellington ministry and MP for Armagh, 28 January 1829, justifying to Archbishop John George Beresford his decision to remain a member of a Government that was committed to passing Catholic Emancipation.
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 Henry Goulburn Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Henry Goulburn became undersecretary of the Home Department in 1810, and was undersecretary for war and the colonies, 1812-1821.
Diplomatic correspondence of Henry Goulburn, British negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent.
Goulburn and the British commissioners corresponded with Lord Liverpool, the prime minister; Lord Castlereagh, the foreign secretary; and Earl Bathurst, secretary for war and the colonies.
www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/G/Goulburn.html   (183 words)

  
 History and all that jazz
The country was declared the Goulburn Plains, in honour of Henry Goulburn, the Secretary of State for War and Colonies at the time, by Governor Macquarie in 1820.
Goulburn Public School, in Bourke Street, was opened by Sir Henry Parkes (the father of Federation) who was then the President of the Education Department, in 1868.
Goulburn was described in the local press at the time as the "nursery of bushranging", so it was here that a law was passed making it illegal to harbour bushrangers - marking the beginning of the end for bushranging - or so the authorities hoped.
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 Goulburn, Frederick (1788 - 1837) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GOULBURN, FREDERICK (1788-1837), military officer and colonial secretary, was the third son of Munbee Goulburn of Portland Place, London, and his wife Susannah, daughter of Viscount Chetwynd, and a younger brother of Henry Goulburn, under-secretary for the colonies in 1812-21.
He also criticized Goulburn for delays in conducting other government business, for withholding communications and staying the execution of orders, describing Goulburn as thinking that 'He is Secretary of State for the Colony, and embracing His powers, without, I am fully aware, sharing in the smallest degree His responsibility'.
During his tenure of office Goulburn strongly supported the local charities, was elected president of the Benevolent Society and the Bible Society, was a friend of the Wesleyan missionaries, and was described as a 'Friend of Australia' for his work on behalf of the native-born youths.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au /biogs/A010424b.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Goulburn Mulwaree Council: About: Early Explorations of Goulburn
A summary of the early explorations of the Goulburn district.
In 1825 Surveyor Robert Dixon laid out the township of Goulburn Plains at this time it was proposed to call the township ?Lorne' this was rejected by the Executive Council in favour of Goulburn.
The old township of Goulburn, today known as North Goulburn, was built around the confluence of the Wollondilly and Mulwaree Rivers.
www.goulburn.nsw.gov.au /about/1004/1016.html   (1044 words)

  
 Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography Canadian Journal of History - Find Articles (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Henry Goulburn has long been among the most prominent of obscure people in nineteenth-century British politics.
He makes a strong case for Goulburn as the quintessential Tory executive: serious in his religion, comfortable in his assumptions of British and Anglican superiority, sincere in his faith that the social and political hierarchies were sacrosanct, and doggedly self-sacrificing in his dedication to the nation's business.
Jenkins defends Goulburn's Treasury view of the potato famine, for instance, which stipulated that major public works programmes were an unacceptably expensive form of emergency relief.
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 HENRY GOULBURN (1784-1... - Online Information article about HENRY GOULBURN (1784-1...
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 AusEmade: Goulburn Travel Information and Attractions Guide, New South Wales (NSW), Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Named after Henry Goulburn Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, Goulburn is Australia’s oldest inland city being declared as such on 14 March 1863.
Goulburn’s 1st street plans were drawn up in 1828 and in the early days had a reputation as a garrison town with few women and a rough atmosphere.
Today Goulburn is a bustling rural city with many fine colonial buildings gracing its wide streets, being a centre for rural industries and manufacturing, the city also boast a fine array of parks and gardens and the magnificent cathedral St Saviours.
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 thePeerage.com - Alice de Toni and others
     Henry Goulburn Willoughby Chetwynd was born on 12 December 1858.
She married Henry Goulburn Chetwynd-Stapylton, son of Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton and Esther Charlotte Goulburn, on 1 June 1886.
She married, firstly, Captain Henry Miles Chetwynd-Stapylton, son of Henry Goulburn Chetwynd-Stapylton and Mary Wynn, on 25 October 1915.
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 Goulburn - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
GOULBURN, a city of Argyle county, New South Wales, Australia, 134 m.
The municipality was created in 1859; and Goulburn became a city in 1864.
This page was last modified 09:40, 3 Sep 2006.
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 NSW Goulburn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The grassy plains and open country of the prosperous pastoral and agricultural district around Goulburn were first explored by Charles Throsby, Hamilton Hume and James Meehan in 1818.
Goulburn Steam Museum displays items of industrial machinery and at Old Goulburn Brewery visitors can watch beer being brewed in the old fashioned way and taste the results.
The area was marked on the explorers' maps as Goulburn Plains, after Henry Goulburn, Secretary of State for the Colonies.
www.allsydney.com /nsw/Goulburn.htm   (340 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Goulburn River, Victoria
The Goulburn River is the largest river in the Australian state of Victoria.
The headwaters of the Goulburn rise in the western end of the Victorian Alps, near Mount Buller.
North of Eildon the Goulburn enters the northern plains of Victoria and eventually flows into the Murray near Echuca.
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 Bathurst, Henry [third Earl Bathurst] (1762 - 1834) Biographical Entry - Australian Dictionary of Biography Online (via ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
BATHURST, HENRY, third Earl Bathurst (1762-1834), politician, was born on 22 May 1762, the son of the second Earl Bathurst (1714-1794), who was lord chancellor from 1771 to 1778.
He opposed parliamentary reform, was a strong supporter of the Church of England in the colonies, was sympathetic to William Wilberforce and the Evangelicals, and strove to ameliorate the conditions of slaves in British possessions, though he did not favour immediate abolition of slavery.
With Henry Goulburn, under-secretary in 1812-21, Bathurst reorganized the Colonial Office, introduced Blue Books and established routines.
www.adb.online.anu.edu.au.cob-web.org:8888 /biogs/A010065b.htm   (379 words)

  
 Goulburn Australia Tourism New South Wales Information Guide discoverAustralia.com.au
Goulburn, population 21 300, 200 kilometres, 125 miles southwest of Sydney, is the largest city on the Southern Tablelands and also Australias first inland city in Gundungurra country.
The town is marked by a giant replica merino sheep, which signifies the importance of the wool industry, or for Goulburn as the fine wool capital of the world.
The Great South Road was re-routed in the 1830s and Goulburn was placed in its route for the first time, rendering Goulburn a major stopover and regional centre.
www.discoveraustralia.com.au /new_south_wales/goulburn.html   (585 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - Elizabeth Alice Chetwynd-Stapylton and others
     Esther Charlotte Goulburn was the daughter of Edward Goulburn and Hon.
She married Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton, son of Major Henry Richard Chetwynd-Stapylton and Margaret Hammond, on 29 April 1851.
She married Henry Edward Chetwynd-Stapylton, son of Major Henry Richard Chetwynd-Stapylton and Margaret Hammond, on 23 October 1856.
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 O'Connell and Emancipation
Saurin, the obstinate opponent of all measures of relief, was removed and Plunket replaced him as Attorney-General; but Henry Goulburn, who came over as Chief Secretary, was known to be averse to emancipation.
Goulburn was besieged by Orangemen from the North, demanding the suppression of the "Papists," and Plunket, on the other hand, became the butt of O'Connell's followers, who were determined to make an attack on Parliament in the session of 1822.
Vigorous and virulent as he was in speech, O'Connell was generally ready to enter into a compromise when he thought it advantageous, and he now attempted a modified form of settlement which, however, was rejected by the Government.
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 Did You Know?
In fact Australians still delight in tracing their ancestry back to the 717 convicts who were aboard the eleven ships of the “First Fleet”, commanded by Arthur Phillip, who was later to become the First Governor of Australia.
Major benefactors for this work are recorded on a plaque at the bottom of the Tower and include inter alia Brigadier Cuthbert Goulburn, and the Estate of the Late Major General Edward Goulburn.
However the ringers expressed their sadness that they had failed to make contact with the Goulburn family, and had therefore settled reluctantly, that very afternoon, on an inscription which didn’t link together the origins of the City, with the First Fleet and the Goulburn Family, as they had earnestly wished.
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 History of Goulburn
This early history information is taken from the book "Grand Goulburn" a random history of Goulburn, the 'First Inland City of Australia', by Stephen J. Tazewell, OAM, and published by Goulburn City Council in 1991.
Due to the large swamp and lagoon the old and the new towns were virtually separated for many years when finally they were untied by Lagoon Street which as the name implies provided access.
Why Goulburn is located where it is? This most logical question is probably the most asked in regard to the locality of nearly all towns and cities.
www1.goulburn.nsw.gov.au /culturalmap/history/history.htm   (1628 words)

  
 CO 194/60
Goulburn that the flagship for Newfoundland is ready to sail upon Lord Bathurst’s orders
In the Chair with various persons examined including, George Garland, James Henry Attwood, George Kemp, John Preston, John Job, Thomas Holdsworth Hunt, and Marmaduke Hart offering observations on their trade and association with the Newfoundland trade and fisheries.
Report includes a chart of the return of the quantities of fish caught at and exported from Newfoundland in the Years ending the 10 October between 1804-1816.
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 goulburn - OneLook Dictionary Search
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 The Usher Family of Scotland Henry Edward CHETWYND STAPYLTON
Henry married Esther Charlotte GOULBURN, daughter of Edward GOULBURN S.L. and Hon.
Henry next married Ellen ODDIE, daughter of Henry Hoyle ODDIE and Unknown, on 23 Oct 1856 in Marylebone, London,, England, Trinity Church.
Henry Edward Chetwynd Stapylton married thirdly Augst 15th 1871 Sophia Catherine Chetwynd at ??......??.
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 Some Notes on the Treaty of Ghent
This however was not the first fabulous five to visit a staggering defeat on their European counterparts, nor has it been the last.
In early 1814 John Quincy Adams led Albert Gallatin, James Bayard, Jonathan Russell, and Henry Clay, as the American commission to negotiate a Peace Treaty with the British.
They failed to dislodge William Henry Harrison from Fort Meigs (twice) and George Croghan from Fort Stephenson in Ohio.
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 Goulburn, New South Wales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The city is situated just off the Hume Highway in southern New South Wales between Mittagong and Yass.
Goulburn's second court house designed by Mortimer Lewis and operational from 1849-85
Goulburn's first permanent fire station built 1890 and designed by local architect EC Manfred
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 Chancellor of the Exchequer (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Henry Bilson Legge (April 6, 1754 - November 25, 1755)
Henry Goulburn (January 26, 1828 - November 22, 1830)
Henry Goulburn (September 3, 1841 - June 27, 1846)
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 Henry Goulburn, 1784-1856; Jenkins, Brian (Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada); Paperback; World Retail ...
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