Australian dictionary of biography peter lalor bowling
Peter Lalor - Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Australian dictionary of biography peter lalor bowling
The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Lalor, Hon. Peter
Lalor, Hon. Peter, a younger son of Patrick Lalor, who was for some time M.P. for Queen's County, was born in 1827 at Tennikill, in that county, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, afterwards qualifying himself as a civil engineer.
The outbreak of the gold fever brought him to Melbourne in 1852, and then to the Ovens, where he only remained a short time, arriving in Ballarat in Feb. 1853, where he worked with marked success until the troubles between the authorities and the miners in Dec.
1854, in which Mr. Lalor bore a prominent part in the interests of the latter. He was present at the meeting on Bakery Hill, on Nov. 29th, when the obnoxious mining licences were publicly burned; and he acted as commander of the contingent of miners who guarded the Eureka stockade against the troops and police commanded by Colonel (then Captain) Thomas, on Dec.
3rd, 1854. On this occasion he was wounded in the left arm, whi