Ebenezer Syme (1826 - March 13, 1860) was an Scottish-Australian journalist. The oldest surviving photograph, Nicéphore Niépce, circa 1826 1826 (MDCCCXXVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... March 13 is the 72nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (73rd in leap years). ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ...

Syme, brother of David Syme, was born at North Berwick, Scotland, in 1826. He went to the University of St Andrews to be educated for the ministry but finding difficulties in accepting the creeds of the day became an unattached evangelist, working mostly in the north of England. He also began to write for the reviews and succeeded George Eliot as assistant editor of the Westminster Review. David Syme (October 2, 1827 - February 14, 1908) was an Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor of The Age and regarded as the father of protection in Australia who had immense influence in the Government of Victoria. ... North Berwick is a small Scottish seaside town in East Lothian, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, about 25 miles east of Edinburgh. ... St Marys College Bute Medical School Postgraduate Students Affiliations 1994 Group Website www. ...

In 1852 he sailed for Melbourne and immediately found occupation as a journalist. When the Age was founded in 1854 Syme joined the staff and two years later, the paper being in difficulties, it was sold to him and his brother, David. He was elected member for Mandurang in the first Legislative Assembly of Victoria, but as this conflicted with his journalistic work he did not stand again when his term expired. in 1857 he took sole control of the Age and joined in the struggle for the opening up of the lands. His health, however, began to suffer and he died after a lingering illness on 13 March 1860. His son, Joseph Cowen Syme, was for many years part proprietor and manager of The Age. ‹ The template below has been proposed for deletion. ... The Age is a broadsheet daily newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. ... The Legislative Assembly, or lower house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of Victoria in Australia. ...

Reference

• Serle, Percival (1949). “Syme, Ebenezer”, Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson.