Royal Navy officer and colonial administrator (1806–1855)
For other people named Charles Hotham, see Charles Hotham (disambiguation).
Captain
Sir Charles Hotham
KCB
Lithograph by James Henry Lynch, printed by Day & Son, 1859
2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria
In office 22 June 1854 – 22 May 1855
Preceded by
Charles La Trobe
1st Governor of Victoria
In office 22 May 1855 – 10 November 1855
Monarch
Queen Victoria
Succeeded by
Sir Henry Barkly
Personal details
Born
14 January 1806 Dennington, Suffolk, England
Died
31 December 1855(1855-12-31) (aged 49) Melbourne, Victoria
Nationality
British subject
Spouse
Jane Sarah Bridport
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Captain Sir Charles HothamKCB (14 January 1806 – 31 December 1855)[1] was Lieutenant-Governor and, later, Governor of Victoria, Australia from 22 June 1854 to 10 November 1855.
^B. A. Knox, 'Hotham, Sir Charles (1806–1855)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 4, MUP, 1972, pp 429-430.
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government forces were under the overall command of Lieutenant Governor CharlesHotham and Ballarat's resident gold commissioner, Robert Rede. The strength...
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and more arrests were made. A petition was sent to His Excellency Sir CharlesHotham, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria regarding the investigation...
governor, Sir CharlesHotham, took up his commission in Victoria on 22 June 1854. There were public ceremonies in Melbourne, and in August, Hotham and his wife...
colony, named after the reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. Governor CharlesHotham appointed William Haines to be Victoria's first premier on 28 November...
promoted the Parliamentary Library. He organised the Governor, Sir CharlesHotham, to lay the foundation stones of University of Melbourne, Melbourne...
the population on the Ballarat goldfields was estimated at 20,000. CharlesHotham, who arrived in Victoria in June 1854, was alarmed at the depleted state...
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