Henry Snowden Saville : a life in colonial Victoria / Barry McCrae with Russell Brown & Sharyn Glen
- Bib ID:
- 8077138
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McCrae, Barry J, author
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- [Montmorency, Victoria] : Barry J McCrae, [2019]
- ©2019
- xii, 146 pages ; illustrations (some colour), portraits, maps, facsimiles, genealogical tables : 30 cm
- ISBN:
- 9780646809014 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This is primarily the life story of the author's great-great grandfather. Henry Saville was born in Yorkshire in 1829, emigrated to Victoria in 1855 and died in Melbourne in 1900. His time in Victoria spanned all but 5 years of the 49½ years of the Colony's existence and was one of variety, enterprise and ingenuity. On arrival from England he became a Mounted Constable in the Victoria Police Force around the Geelong district, including at Winchelsea and Inverleigh, and at Streatham west of Ballarat. When he resigned after 21 years service he selected land near Pyramid Hill in northern Victoria where for the next 13 years he struggled to make good his dream of becoming a "gentleman pastoralist". Along the way he formed brass bands wherever he settled and was the first bandmaster of the Kerang Brass Band. He was an active proponent of the temperance cause, a devoted churchman responsible for establishing churches in Streatham and Pyramid Hill, and a Justice of the Peace for midland Victoria. Unfortunately, Henry had to abandon his selections at Pyramid Hill on being declared insolvent in 1890 and spent his last 10 years remote from his family in Melbourne. He married three times, was widowed once but was never divorced, and had a fourth companion for the last few years of his life. He had a total of 12 children, nine of whom survived infancy, the last one at age 68.
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- Includes bibliographic references.
- NLApp86437
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