Record ID:
35126924 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • Petersfield, England
Death:
  • Hobart, Tasmania
Notes:
  • The life and adventures of William Buckley, 2002: title page (John Morgan) title page verso (b. 1792; d. 1866)
  • Australian Dictionary of Biography, viewed online 30 October 2018: (John Morgan (1792?-1866), soldier, public servant and publicist, was born at Petersfield, near Portsmouth, England... At Perth he became also magistrate, justice of the peace, and barracks master. He wrote many letters to Robert Hay describing the colony's progress. Hay's influence with Viscount Goderich won Morgan an offer of the police magistracy at Richmond, Van Diemen's Land, and he assumed this post late in 1834... He was foundation editor of the Hobart Town Advertiser (1839), worked briefly on the Tasmanian, then began the Tasmanian Weekly Dispatch (1839-41). Meanwhile he had become secretary of the Hobart Mechanics' Institute, and of the Licensed Victuallers' Society, in whose interest he edited the Morning Advertiser (1841) and issued two directories (1840, 1847). He launched, with little success, a commercial exchange and an immigration agency. In 1846-51 he edited the Britannia and Trades' Advocate and for the next two years was secretary of the Hobart School of Arts... Morgan died at the Hobart General Hospital on 22 April 1866) http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/morgan-john-2479
Local system number:
  • 000000127604
  • abv02068524
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX69783
Cataloguing source:
  • AIAS eng rda TSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc