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.
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
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in 1930,
and was buried at the
Gore Hill Cemetery.
Business career
From 1882 he was an assurance agent, and was also successful mining at
Leadville, on the
Palmer River in
Far North Queensland
Far North Queensland (FNQ) is the northernmost part of the Australian state of Queensland. Its largest city is Cairns and it is dominated geographically by Cape York Peninsula, which stretches north to the Torres Strait, and west to the Gulf C ...
,
and on the
Macquarie River.
Garland is credited with being the first to introduce
gold dredging—a technique used extensively in his native New Zealand—to New South Wales, He launched the first gold dredge on the Macquarie in 1899.
By 1905, there were 42 dredges working in New South Wales, resulting in a significant revival of gold production.
Political career
In 1885 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly as the member for
Carcoar. He retired in 1891.
See also
*
Leadville, New South Wales
References
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1854 births
1930 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Free Trade Party politicians