Thomas Napier Whyte
1848-1904
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Thomas Napier Whyte by
Vivian Hill
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In his introduction to "Complete poems of Robert Frost 1949" Frost compares
the poets and scholars acquiring knowledge.
"Poets and scholars differ most importantly in the way their knowledge
is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along
projected lines of logic; poets cavalierly and as it happens in and out
of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick
to them like burrs where they walk in the fields".
Most of the information for T.E. Whyte's biography was picked up like
grass seed in socks. The Mabo case where the High Court of Australia
recognised that aborigines had native title rights stimulated a recollection
in Hebb's History of Colac of a dispute involving an aborigine claiming
a right to remain on a public reserve. When re read I noticed T.N.
White was his counsel. A friendly chat to an estate agent led him
to produce a bill of costs sent by Whyte to his grandfather more than 90
years previously. Whyte had never been a partner with Just and Moore.
When interviewing a lady whose father had been a lawyer in that firm she
suddenly produced the photo and newspaper extract about "Joe Whyte".
Reading a book on music in Melbourne brought the unexpected report of Josephine
Whyte's concert. When my wife was indexing the history of state education
in Victoria "Visions and realisations" she noticed Whyte's name as a teacher.
Lines of logic played little part in the collection of material for
this biography.
Arrangement of material
The list below describes material held in the Thomas Napier Whyte archive
box, which is located at 340.099452
Whyte Hil/Tnw 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. |
| 8/8/1853 |
Photocopied receipt for land purchased by Alexander Thomson |
TW1 |
| 1854/1859 |
Photocopies of documents re purchase and sale of land in Flemington
Estate Moolap. Items 1 & 2 relate to land being brought under
Transfer of Land Act by T.N. Whyte for Robert Thomson |
TW2 |
| 1866 |
Student record from the University of Melbourne |
TW3 |
| 1900 |
Photocopy of photograph and extract from Geelong Advertiser re death
of T.N. Whyte's Scottish Terrier "Joe Whyte" |
TW4 |
| 4/9/1900 |
Photocopy of memo from T.N. Whyte to H.I. Crawcour |
TW5 |
| 1902 |
Photostat of endorsement on a book "Curiosities of the law"
and extract from the book. J. Grey gave the book to J. P. McCabe Doyle. |
TW12 |
| 2/10/1903 |
Certificate of Title in the name of Robert Thomson |
TW6 |
| 19/12/1903 |
Photocopied Bill of Costs to Robert Thomson and receipt 18/4/1904 |
TW7 |
| 17/8/1904 |
Certified copy of Death Certificate |
TW8 |
| 18/8/1904 |
Typewritten extract of obituary from Geelong Advertiser
[Click on image to enlarge it.] |
TW9 |
| 1940s |
Photocopied extract from autobiography of J.A.C. Firth re T. Whyte |
TW10 |
| 1999 |
Biography by V. Hill
[First page of biography. Click on image to enlarge it.] |
TW11 |
Additional note:
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