Charles Edward Gates
1842-1889
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Charles Edward Gates by
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The 1864 file of the Supreme Court of Victoria relating to Charles Gates'
attempts to be admitted to legal practice demonstrate the strict requirements
for anyone who wished to practice as an Attorney of that court. It
also provides evidence of the obligations the clerk, his father and the
master took on under a deed of Articles of Clerkship. Through his
maternal grandfather John Youl, Charles Gates had a connection with very
early days in Australian white settlement. Youl travelled to Tahiti
as a missionary just ten years after the penal settlement commenced at
Sydney in 1788 and went to Sydney in 1806.
By joining the firm of Taylor Buckland and Martyr, Gates became part
of a firm stretching back to the earliest days of Geelong and Victoria.
The circumstances of the firm at the time of his death point to the hazards
of managing money belonging to others.
Arrangement of material
The list below describes material held in the Charles Edward Gates
archive box, which is located at 340.099452 Gates Hil/Ceg on the shelves in
the Geelong Lawyers' Collection within the Special Collection at the Waterfront
campus. The material has been arranged in date order
| Date |
Title |
Item no. |
| 1895 |
Photocopy of death certificate of Jane Matilda Gates |
CG1 |
| 1898 |
Photocopy of death certificate of Charles Edward Gates |
CG2 |
| 2000 |
Biography of Charles Gates by Vivian Hill
[First page of biography. Click on image to enlarge it.] |
CG3 |
|
Photograph of Charles Gates
[Click on image to enlarge it.] |
CG4 |
|
Typed copy of articles of clerkship |
CG5 |
|
List of documents lodged by Charles Gates on his applications for admission
to practice |
CG6 |
Additional note:
-
Charles Gates is also mentioned in the Harwood
and Pincott archive box:
- re agreement sale of firm Taylor Buckland and Gates to Harwood
and Pincott
- re summary history of firm by R.A. Annois
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