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Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812 - 1878) |
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| Physician and Pastoralist | ||
| Born: 12 May 1812 Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland. Died: 24 June 1878 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. | ||
| Robert Culbertson Hope was a medical practitioner at Campbelltown and then in Geelong, Victoria. Shortly after moving to the Geelong district he took up land at Batesford where he built flour mills and supplied meat, bread and vegetables to gold diggers at Ballarat and Bendigo in 1851. He was one of the early viticulturists in the Geelong district, but phylloxera ruined the vines in 1877. Hope was also joint founder of the Mechanics' Institute at Batesford and President of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society. |
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