Bleasdale, John Ignatius (1822 - 1884)

Summary

John Bleasdale was a Roman Catholic clergyman interested in science and was President of the Royal Society of Victoria, 1865. He was active in a number of government and public committees related to schools, technical education (particularly in chemistry and mineralogy) and museums, and the Melbourne Public Library and Gallery. Between 1857 and 1873 he was a member of the Exploration Committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria (later Royal Society of Victoria). He was a foundation Member of the Melbourne Microscopical Society, Honorary Member of the Medical Society of Victoria, and Fellow of the Geographical and Linnean Societies, London.

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Chronology

1850

Life event - Settled in Victoria

1851 - 1853

Career event - Appointed to the country missions in Geelong and Colac, Victoria

1853 - 1855

Career event - Transferred to Seminary of St Patrick's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne

1855 - 1860

Career position - Vice-President, Seminary of St Patrick's, Eastern Hill, Melbourne

1856 - 1857

Career position - Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1858

Career position - Member of Council, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1859

Award - Life Member, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1857 - 1859

Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1859

Career position - Vice-President, Philosophical Institute of Victoria

1859 - 1873

Career position - Member, Exploration Committee of the Royal Society of Victoria

1859 - 1884

Award - Life Member, Royal Society of Victoria

1860 -

Career position - Treasurer, Royal Society of Victoria

1865

Career position - President, Royal Society of Victoria

1874 - 1877

Career position - Chancellor, Archdiocese of Melbourne

1877

Life event - Migrated to California, U.S.A.

Related entries

Archival resources

Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science

• Australian Botanists - Biographies, MS 064; Adolph Basser Library, Australian Academy of Science. Details

Published resources

Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions

• Collins, David, Chemistry in 19th Australia - Select Bibliography, An exhibition of the Encyclopedia circa 2005 with assistance from Ailie Smith and Gavan McCarthy., eScholarship Research Centre (original publisher), Melbourne, 2009, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/ciab/ciab_ALL.html. Details

Books

• Smith, Wilson Berry, Bleasdale, 1850-1950: a centenary history of Bleasdale, Langhornes Creek, South Australia (Adelaide: Advertiser, 1950), 21 pp. Details

Book Sections

• Grigsby, J. R. J., 'Bleasdale, John Ignatius (1822-1884), Catholic clergyman' in Australian dictionary of biography, volume 3: 1851 - 1890 A-C, Douglas Pike, ed. (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1969), pp. 183-184. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A030175b.htm. Details

Conference Papers

• Birch, W. D., 'Gemstones in the Forest: Rev. John Bleasdale's Journey to William Wallace Creek, Victoria', in The History of Geology in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century; the Story in Australia, and in Victoria, from Selwyn and McCoy to Gregory - 1853 to 1903 edited by Pierson, R. R. (Melbourne: Earth Sciences History Group, GSA Inc., 2007), pp. 8-11.. Details

Journal Articles

• Bleasdale, J.I., 'On Colonial Wines', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 8 (1867), 53-72, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42368653#page/85/mode/1up. Details
• Bleasdale, J.I., 'On the essence of meat and other methods of preserving fleshmeat', The Australian Medical Journal, 13 (1867), 78-86. Details
• Bleasdale, John Ignatius, 'On Chlorine as a Solvent of Gold', Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 6 (1865), 47-52, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33872176#page/157/mode/1up. Details
• Farrer, Keith Thomas Henry, 'The Rev Dr JI Bleasdale and the Medical Society of Victoria', Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 86 (1993), 166-198. Details

Parliamentary papers

• Royal Commission for Promoting Technological and Industrial Instruction. Victoria, Progress report of the Technological Commission (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1869), 4 pp. https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:23051/one. Member of Commission. Details
• Royal Commission for Promoting Technological and Industrial Instruction. Victoria., Further report of the Technological Commission (Melbourne: John Ferres, Government Printer, 1869), 7 pp, https://pov.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_GB/parl_paper/search/detailnonmodal/ent:$002f$002fSD_ILS$002f0$002fSD_ILS:23050/one. Member of Commission. Details

Resources

• Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6222201. Details
• VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/71168261. Details
• 'Bleasdale, John I (1822-1884)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-888259. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/index_b.html. Details
• Science and the making of Victoria, with Royal Society of Victoria, 2001, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/smv/index_b.html. Details