Record ID:
35020215 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50042220
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1817-07-08
Death:
  • 1906-10-06
Fields of activity:
  • Teaching History
Occupations:
  • Teachers Authors Historians Archivists
Notes:
  • John Batman, the founder of Victoria, 1973 title page (James Bonwick)
  • Wikipedia 31 Aug. 2015 (James Bonwick (8 July 1817-6 October 1906) was an English-born Australian historical and educational writer. Born in Lingfield, Surry, he began teaching at 17. He arrived in Hobart, Tasmania in 1841, to teach at the Normal School, and began publishing school books. He moved to Adelaide, then to the Victorian goldfields, then to Kew (now a Melbourne suburb). He continued writing, with periods of teaching. He settled back in England in the 1890s, where he held the position of Archivist for New South Wales until resigning in 1902. He died in England)
Local system number:
  • (AuPaJTL)81348
  • abv00050885
  • 000000020329
  • (VSL)11816516
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX11630
Cataloguing source:
  • ANL eng rda DLC VJTL
Authentication code:
  • anuc