Historical information
PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY THE COLONIAL SECRETARY'S OFFICE IN MELBOURNE IN 1854. Describes Lawlor as Height, 5 ft 1&/34 in, age 35 hair dark brown, whiskers dark brown, and shaved under the chin, no moustache, rather good looking, and is a well made man. His accomplice, Black described as Height over 6 feet, straight figure, slight build, bright red hair, worn in general rather long and brushed backwards, red and large whiskers, meeting under the chin, blue eyes, large thin nose, ruddy complexion and rather small mouth. Lawlor was wanted for treasonable seditious language and incite men to take up arms with a view to make war against our sovereign lady the Queen.
Physical description
TWO PHOTOCOPIES OF POSTER FOR TWO WANTED MEN - LAWLOR AND BLACK. WITH A REWARD OF 400 POUNDS LEADING TO THEIR ARREST
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References
- Lalor, Peter (1827–1889) by Ian Turner Peter Lalor (1827-1889), Eureka stockade leader and politician, was born on 5 February 1827 in the parish of Raheen, Queen's County, Ireland, son of Patrick Lalor (pronounced Lawler) and his wife Ann, née Dillon. The family was descended from the O'Lalours, one of the Seven Septs of Leix who had fought against the English invasion of Ireland in the sixteenth century. The Lalors had leased the 700 acres (283 ha) of Tenakill since 1767 and remained fairly prosperous until the great famine of 1845. They were supporters of Ireland's freedom from British rule and of the rights of the Irish peasantry. In 1831 Patrick Lalor had led the resistance of the Leix peasants against the forcible collection of tithes for the established church and in 1832-35 represented Queen's County in the House of Commons where he was an ardent advocate for the repeal of the Act of Union. In 1853 he wrote: 'I have been for upwards of forty years struggling without ceasing in the cause of the people'...
- George Black George Black was a newspaper editor who was involved in the Eureka Stockade...
