Charles Garland (Australian politician)
Charles Launcelot Garland (1854 – 7 January 1930) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician and mining entrepreneur. He was the founder of the town of Leadville, N.S.W.
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He was born at Auckland to sea captain William Riley Garland and Nancy Turner. He was a miner from an early age, and migrated to New South Wales in 1879. Around 1882 he married Mary Newland, with whom he had a son. Garland died in Sydney in 1930,[1][2] and was buried at the Gore Hill Cemetery.[3]
Business career
From 1882 he was an assurance agent, and was also successful mining at Leadville, on the Palmer River in Far North Queensland,[1] and on the Macquarie River.[4]
Garland is credited with being the first to introduce gold dredging—a technique used extensively in his native New Zealand[5]—to New South Wales, He launched the first gold dredge on the Macquarie in 1899.[6] By 1905, there were 42 dredges working in New South Wales, resulting in a significant revival of gold production.[4]
Political career
In 1885 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for Carcoar. He retired in 1891.[1]
See also
References
- "Mr Charles Launcelot Garland (1854-1930)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2019.
- "OBITUARY. MR. C. L. GARLAND". Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 9 January 1930. p. 12. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
- "Charles Lancelot Garland (1855-1930) - Find A..." www.findagrave.com. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- "GOLD-DREDCING ON THE MACQUARIE RIVER". Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912). 12 April 1905. p. 925. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
- "Gold dredges development | Engineering New Zealand". www.engineeringnz.org. Retrieved 7 January 2021.
- "DREDGE MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES". Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912). 17 June 1899. p. 1410. Retrieved 7 January 2021.