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Lot 3081    Session 11 (9:30am Thursday 2nd August)    Documents

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $400

DISTRICT OF PORT PHILLIP, New South Wales, Land and Immigration Receipt, for ?350, paid into the Colonial Treasury at Melbourne by Christopher Bond Peed Esquire of Melbourne, as payment for land in the Port Phillip District, receipt number 42, on thin paper, scroll down left side, signed and dated by Superintendent C.J.La Trobe, Sub-Treasurer William Lonsdale and Surveyor in Charge Robert Hoddle, 23 November 1849. With folds, small holes, two tears to top edge, and one to left side centre, slight foxing, otherwise very fine and rare.

Charles Joseph La Trobe (1801-1875) superintendent and Lieutenant-governor. Born on 20 March 1801 in London and educated in Switzerland. He was appointed superintendent of the Port Phillip District in January 1839 arriving in Melbourne on 30 September that year. La Trobe served as Lieutentant-governor of Victoria from January 1851 to 1854. He returned to England where he died on 4 December 1875.

William Lonsdale (1799-1864) soldier and administrator. Born 2 October 1799 and entered the Brtish Army in 1819 as an ensign. He arrived in Sydney in December 1831 with a detachment of troops guarding convicts on the Bussorah Merchant. After serving in Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales he was appointed sub-treasurer of Port Phillip in 1840 and when Victoria became a separate colony in 1851, La Trobe nominated Lonsdale as its first colonial secretary. He became colonial treasurer in 1853 before leaving for England in July 1854 where he died in 1864.

Robert Hoddle (1794-1881) artist and surveyor. He arrived in New South Wales in July 1823 and was appointed assistant surveyor under John Oxley. Hoddle arrived in Port Phillip in March 1837 and was appointed senior surveyor. In 1838 he surveyed and planned Geelong, and later surveyed many country areas of Victoria. Hoddle became Victoria's first surveyor-general in 1851, a position he held til 1853. He was Surveyor General of the Port Phillip District from 1837-1853.

Together with six pages of biographical detail.