Person
Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812 - 1878)
- Born
- 12 May 1812
Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland - Died
- 24 June 1878
Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Physician and Pastoralist
Summary
Robert Hope was a medical practitioner at Campbelltown and then in Geelong, Victoria. Shortly after moving to the Geelong district he took up land at Batesford where he built flour mills and supplied meat, bread and vegetables to gold diggers at Ballarat and Bendigo in 1851. He was one of the early viticulturists in the Geelong district, but phylloxera ruined the vines in 1877. Hope was also joint founder of the Mechanics' Institute at Batesford and President of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society.
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Chronology
- 1834
- Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD) completed at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- 1838
- Life event - Arrived in Australia
- 1838 - 1846
- Career position - Private practice in Campbelltown (New South Wales?, South Australia?)
- 1850s - 1877
- Career position - Viticulturist at Moorabool River (Geelong)
- 1860
- Career position - Chairman of the Board of Agriculture
Published resources
Book Sections
- Clark, Manning, 'Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812-1878), medical practitioner and pastoralist' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Douglas Pike, ed., vol. 4 (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1972), pp. 419-420. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040472b.htm. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q19664368. Details
- 'Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812-1878)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466353. Details
See also
- Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_h.html. Details
Rosanne Walker
Created: 30 June 1997, Last modified: 5 March 2018