Sir Charles Sladen
1817-1884
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Sir Charles Sladen by
Vivian Hill
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With his book "Port Phillip Gentlemen", published in 1980 by Melbourne
University Press, Paul de Serville challenged the assumption of previous
historians that the foundation of Victoria was solely egalitarian in nature.
Those gentlemen and their ladies, such as Geogiana McCrae and Sophie LaTrobe,
contributed much to the diversity of Australian life. After all,
the exclusive Melbourne Club was established in 1838 four years after settlement
and 16 years before the democratic rebellion at Eureka.
Sladen is an interesting early Geelong lawyer in several ways.
He came from the English gentry, he took an active part in politics and
his qualification for the law differed from anyone else. Early lawyers
included a Writer to the Signet from Scotland, a Dublin solicitor who had
spent time in a Debtors Prison, others who had qualified in Newfoundland,
Canada, or were conveyancers, attorneys and proctors but Sladen appears
to be the only one who obtained his qualification by being admitted to
Doctors Commons by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Arrangement of material
The list below describes material held in the Sir Charles Sladen archive
box, which is located at 340.099452
Sladen Hil/Csl 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. |
| 20/6/1842 |
Extracts from the Geelong Advertiser re admission and administration
of H. Tyssen estate |
CS2 |
| 1/7/1842 |
Photocopy of Court note re application for admission |
CS3 |
| 1939 |
"My long life" by Douglas Sladen - nephew of Sir Charles Sladen |
CS1 |
| 1990 |
Photocopy of biography by J. Grant published in Geelong Biographical
Register |
CS4 |
| 18/5/2000 |
Cutting from The Age re public notaries |
CS11 |
| 2000 |
Photograph of window in Christ Church,
Geelong, erected in memory of
Sir Charles Sladen
[Click on image to enlarge it] |
CS5 |
| 2000 |
3 Photographs of Sladen House which had been Sir Charles Sladen's home
[One of the photographs. Click on
image to enlarge it] |
CS6 |
| 2000 |
Biography by Vivian Hill
[First page of biography. Click on image to enlarge it.] |
CS8 |
| 2001 |
Vol.36 no.2, 2001 issue of "Investigator" which
contains a reprint of a report on July 4th 1879 of the Old Colonists dinner
where Sladen proposed the toast and recalled his early days in Geelong. |
CS12 |
|
Portrait
[Click on image to enlarge it.] |
CS7 |
|
2 Photographs of C. Sladen's grave at Eastern Cemetery Geelong |
CS10 |
|
2 Photographs of C. Sladen |
CS9 |
Additional note:
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Sir Charles Sladen is also mentioned in the following archive boxes:
Harwood
and Pincott
- agreement Sladen Martyr and Taylor 8/7/1854
- summary history of firm by R. Annois
Joseph
Martyr
Thomas
Hamlet Taylor
Henry
Tyssen
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