Robert Lamb
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History
Robert Lamb was born in England. He first arrived in Australia in January 1853. He arrived in the Ballarat district in february 1853, first digging for gold at White Horse. Lamb was later was a store keeper, post master, Deputy Registrar of Births and Deaths at Durham Lead.[1]
Robert Lamb was elected to the Ballarat Mining Board in 1858.[2] He was elected to the Buninyong Road Board in 1862</ref> [3], and served as a Buninyong Councillor and one time President of the Buninyong Shire Council.[4]
Legacy
Robert Lamb was elected to the first Ballarat Mining Board that established the Ballarat School of Mines in 1870. [5] [6]
See also
Newsworthy
- The first Ballarat Mining Board was elected on the 27th February, 1858, and Messrs James Baker, John Yates, Alfred Arthur O'Connor (for Ballarat Proper), William Frazor, Robert Lamb (for Buninyong), Duncan Gillies, Robert Critchley (for Smythesdale), Joseph Reed (for Creswick), — Martin (for Blackwood), and William Butcher (for Slieglitz) were the members, James Baker being chosen chairman. Mr Harrie Wood was appointed clerk, and he has held the office ever since. The first meeting of the board was on the 9th March, 1858. The Local Court members were remunerated by the fees paid in the cases brought before the courts in their judicial capacity. The Mining Boards receive each a Government subsidy of £500 a-year. The courts were more intensely local bodies than are the boards. The boards preside over and legislate for large districts, but the courts had very small areas of jurisdiction, nearly every mining centre, small or large, having its own court and its own regulations.
- In looking at the mixed powers of the Local Courts and their great number, we see the cause of their abolition. The conjunction, of the legislative and judicial functions did not work satisfactorily, and the multiplicity of courts being followed by a multitude of varying regulations, another element of dissatisfaction was found to quicken the desire for further reform. Hence arose the present-Mining Boards and Courts of Mines, the former legislating for districts in which previously, per chance, half a score of Local Courts had exercised their anomalous union of jurisdictions, and the latter exercising judicial functions over areas coterminous with the mining board districts. [7]
Notes
References
- ↑ Unpublished notes on "Lamb's Ballarat Knitting Co. P/L" by John Rash, 2014.
- ↑ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~carrick/Ballarat%20a%20to%20b.html accessed 15 March 2013.
- ↑ Griffiths, Tom, Three Times Blest, Buninyong Historical Society, 1988.
- ↑ Unpublished notes on "Lamb's Ballarat Knitting Co. P/L" by John Rash, 2014.
- ↑ Unpublished notes on "Lamb's Ballarat Knitting Co. P/L" by John Rash, 2014.
- ↑ Griffiths, Tom, Three Times Blest, Buninyong Historical Society, 1988, p31.
- ↑ Ballarat Star, 18 January 1870.
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--Beth Kicinski 14:51, 29 August 2013 (EST); --Clare K.Gervasoni 21:34, 20 September 2020 (AEST)