The currency lad
Subtitle: a biography of Horatio Spencer Howe Wills, 5 October 1811 to 17 October 1861, and the story of his immediate family, 1797 to 1918 : using contemporary letters, documents, daguerreotypes, paintings, and photographs
By: by T.S. Wills Cooke.
Publisher: T.S. Wills Cooke]
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Leopold, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Wills, Horatio Spencer Howe, 1811-1861.; Wills family.; Editors -- Australia -- Biography.; Farmers -- Australia -- Biography.; Australia -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
First sentence: Very little is known of the antecedents of Edward Spencer Wills , there is a record of his baptism on 11 September 1778 at St. Lukes, Old St. Finsbury, a suburb of London. In this he is shown as born on 13 August 1778 the son of Edward and Elizabeth Wills. His father’s occupation was apparently “watchmaker”.
Description: Horatio Wills, posthumous son of a convict, born in Sydney in 1811,
Editor of the Sydney Gazette 
Proprietor and Editor of the Currency Lad, Australia’s first privately owned newspaper 
Landowner with properties successively Burra Burra near modern day Canberra, Lexington, la Rose and Mokepilly at Moyston Victoria, Belle Vue at Point Henry Geelong Victoria and Cullinlaringo near Springsure, Queensland. 
Member of the Victorian Parliament 
Pioneer of Australian agriculture 
Founder of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society 
Leader of the party which was attacked by Aboriginals and became the largest massacre of whites in Australia’s history before Port Arthur. He and 18 other men, women and children were killed in October 1861 in what became known as the Springsure massacre. 
Father of Thomas Wentworth Wills, the Founder of Australian football, twelve times Captain of Victoria in Inter-colonial cricket and coach of the first (Aboriginal) cricket team to tour England and 
Uncle of Henry Colden Antill Harrison, the Father of Australian Football, writer of the rules and President of the Football Association. 
This book of 300 pages with many illustrations is mostly derived from letters and other papers in the possession of the author giving a vivid description of the time about people who are major figures in Australia’s history.
Notes: The complete book can be found at   http://www.gyra.com.au/the_currency_lad.html

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]).
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