Horatio Wills


























Horatio Wills

Horatio Wills.jpg
Horatio Wills circa 1850s

Born
Horatio Spencer Howe Wills


(1811-10-05)5 October 1811

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died 17 October 1861(1861-10-17) (aged 50)
Cullin-la-ringo, Queensland, Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation pastoralist, politician

Horatio Spencer Howe Wills (5 October 1811 – 17 October 1861)[1] was an Australian pastoralist and politician. Born in Sydney, the son of a convict transported to Australia for highway robbery, Wills worked as a printer and editor for Australia's first newspaper, The Sydney Gazette, before founding his own journal, The Currency Lad, in 1832. In it, he promoted the interests of "currency lads and lasses" (native-born Australians) and argued for a form of Australian republicanism, prefiguring the nationalist attitudes of the late 19th century.[2] He was also the father of Tom Wills, Australia's first great cricketer and inventor of Australian rules football.


In the late 1830s, Wills took up pastoralism and overlanded with his family to the Grampians region of the Port Phillip District (now the state of Victoria). Wills was one of the first settlers in the area, and purchased a 125,000-acre (510 km2) property named Lexington near Moyston. He built a house on the property; completed in 1845, it still exists and is now heritage-listed. While at Lexington he is credited as having named nearby Mount Ararat, from which the city of Ararat takes its name. He hired aborigines as station hands and harvesters on his property.


In 1852, Wills sold Lexington and moved to Belle Vue in Geelong. Wills was elected to the Victorian Legislative Council for Grant on 10 January 1855;[1][3] and was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly for South Grant in November 1856, a position he held until August 1859.[1]


In 1861, Horatio moved north to Queensland, at Cullin-La-Ringo in the Nogoa region near Rockhampton. Less than three weeks later, Wills was murdered by aborigines, along with 18 of his employ at the Cullin-la-ringo massacre, 17 October 1861; the biggest massacre of whites by Aboriginal people in Australian history.



Sources



  • Sayers, C. E. (1967). "Wills, Horatio Spencer Howe (1811–1861)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 19 August 2014..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}




  1. ^ abc
    "Wills, Horatio Spencer Howe". re-member: a database of all Victorian MPs since 1851. Parliament of Victoria. Retrieved 19 August 2014.


  2. ^ McKenna, Mark (1996). The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788–1996. Cambridge University Press.
    ISBN 978-0-521-57618-5. pp. 23–25.


  3. ^
    Sweetman, Edward (1920). Constitutional Development of Victoria, 1851-6. Whitcombe & Tombs Limited. p. 180. Retrieved 19 August 2014.


















Victorian Legislative Council
Preceded by
William Haines
Member for Grant
January 1855 – March 1856
With: John Myles
Original Council
abolished

Victorian Legislative Assembly

New district
Member for South Grant
November 1856 – August 1859
With: William Haines 1856–58
John Bell 1859
John Myles 1856–59
 Succeeded by
Peter Lalor
James Carr







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