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William Mark Forster
William Mark Forster (7 October 1846 – 6 June 1921) was an Australian philanthropist, founder of the Gordon Institute for Boys and City Newsboys' Society. Early life Forster was born at Rothbury, England, the elder son and third child of Luke Forster and his wife Anne, ''née'' Blackett. Forster arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on 18 October 1852 on the ''Ellen'' with his parents when he was six years old and was educated at St Luke's School, South Melbourne. On leaving school he was employed by a softgoods merchant and commission agent. Businessman In 1864 Forster began business for himself as a commission agent and later as a general merchant in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne, where he conducted business with the Chinese and was much respected and trusted by them. In 1871 he went to New Zealand establishing a saddlery, Forster & Son. He returned three years later went into partnership with his father in a saddlery business in Melbourne. Philanthropist In early 1883 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rothbury
Rothbury is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet. It is northwest of Morpeth, Northumberland, Morpeth and of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the United Kingdom Census 2011, 2001 Census, it had a population of 2,107. Rothbury emerged as an important town because of its location at a crossroads over a ford on the River Coquet. Toll road, Turnpike roads leading to Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Alnwick, Hexham and Morpeth allowed for an influx of families and the enlargement of the settlement during the Middle Ages. In 1291, Rothbury was chartered as a market town and became a centre for dealing in cattle and wool for the surrounding villages during the Early Modern Era. Later, Rothbury developed extensively in the Victorian era, due in large part to the Rail transport in Great Britain, railway and the industrialist William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Cragside, Sir William Armstrong. Between 1862 and 1865, Armstrong built Crag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edith Charlotte Onians
Edith Charlotte Onians (2 February 1866 – 16 August 1955) was an Australian social reformer and voluntary welfare worker concerned with the welfare of newsboys in Melbourne. Life Onians was born in 1866 in Lancefield. Her parents Charlotte (born Smith) and Richard Onians were both English immigrants. Her father sold grain and he was an auctioneer. Charlotte did not need to work. The City Newsboys Try Society was started in 1895 by William Mark Forster and it was based in a store room at the Cyclorama Building in Melbourne at 192 Little Collins Street. Onians became involved in 1897 and she gathered her fifteen newsboys. She was known as the "Mother of the Newsboys" and she described the boys as rough and they were poor. Australians would have called them " Larrikins". She offered to give classes to the boys and these were accepted. She taught them reading, writing and arithmetic and on Sundays, as a good Anglican, she gave them lessons in scripture. The organisation moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Emigrants To Colonial Australia
English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national identity, an identity and common culture ** English language in England, a variant of the English language spoken in England * English languages (other) * English studies, the study of English language and literature * ''English'', an Amish term for non-Amish, regardless of ethnicity Individuals * English (surname), a list of notable people with the surname ''English'' * People with the given name ** English McConnell (1882–1928), Irish footballer ** English Fisher (1928–2011), American boxing coach ** English Gardner (b. 1992), American track and field sprinter Places United States * English, Indiana, a town * English, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * English, Brazoria County, Texas, an unincorporated community * Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Rothbury
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 Births
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