Person
La Gerche, John (1845 - 1914)
- Born
- 22 May 1845
Vigntaine du Sud, Jersey - Died
- 18 November 1914
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - Occupation
- Forester
Summary
John La Gerche, born on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, arrived in Melbourne in March 1865. He ran a small sawmill in the Wombat State Forest from 1870-1875. As Crown Lands Bailiff and Forester, he supervised timber cutting and thinning operations in the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest. John La Gerche undertook early trials of establishing Eucalyptus globulus near Creswick, and raised Eucalyptus camaldulendis and Eucalyptus cladocalyx seedlings in the government's Creswick nursery in the late 1890s.
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Chronology
- 1882
- Career event - Crown land Bailiff and Forester, Agriculture Branch of the Departments of Lands and Survey
- 1899
- Career event - Assistant Inspector of Forests, Forests Branch of the Lands Department
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Smith, Ailie; Moje, Christine; Rigby, Rebecca, The Study of Australian Eucalypts, eScholarship Research Centre, 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/index.html. Details
Books
- Taylor, Angela, A forester's log : the story of John La Gerche and the Ballarat-Creswick State Forest, 1882-1897 (Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1998), 224 pp. Details
Resources
- 'La Gerche, John, by Peter Fagg', The Study of Australian Eucalypts: Forestry, with Fagg, P.C. et al., eScholarship Research Centre, 16 December 2013, http://www.eoas.info/eucalypts/forestry.html. Details
- 'La Gerche, John (18450522-19141118)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1540409. Details
Resource Sections
- 'Creswick People - John La Gerche', in Creswick: A Living History, Business & Tourism Creswick Inc, 2009, http://www.creswick.net/creswick_people. Details
Peter Fagg and Christine Moje
Created: 14 January 2014, Last modified: 21 August 2019