Portrait of John Pascoe Fawkner, founder of Melbourne, by William Strutt, 1856: oil on canvas; 61.3 x 51.2 cm. National Library of Australia.

Statue of John Pascoe Fawkner at the site of Melbourne former National Mutual Plaza off Collins Street in Melbourne. Unveiled 26 January 1979

The Enterprize, Fawkner's ship

John Fawkner's bluestone grave at Melbourne General Cemetery.

John Pascoe Fawkner (20 October 1792 – 4 September 1869) was an early pioneer, businessman and politician of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. In 1835 he financed a party of free settlers from Van Diemen's Land (now called Tasmania), to sail to the mainland in his ship, Enterprize. Fawkner's party sailed to Port Phillip Bay and up the Yarra River to found a settlement which became the city of Melbourne. Image File history File links William_Strutt,_Portrait_of_John_Pascoe_Fawkner,_founder_of_Melbourne,_1856. ... Image File history File links William_Strutt,_Portrait_of_John_Pascoe_Fawkner,_founder_of_Melbourne,_1856. ... William Strutt, , 1856: pencil and wash; 20. ... National Library of Australia National Library of Australia as viewed from Lake Burley Griffin The National Library of Australia is located in Canberra, Australia. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 427 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 702 pixel, file size: 349 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Statue of John Pascoe Fawkner at former National Mutual plaza off Collins Street in Melbourne I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 427 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (500 × 702 pixel, file size: 349 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Statue of John Pascoe Fawkner at former National Mutual plaza off Collins Street in Melbourne I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the... The Enterprize at the site of Melbourne, 1835 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years. ... The Enterprize at the site of Melbourne, 1835 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 50 years. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 369 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (460 × 746 pixel, file size: 221 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) John Pascoe Fawkners grave. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 369 × 598 pixelsFull resolution (460 × 746 pixel, file size: 221 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) John Pascoe Fawkners grave. ... Melbourne General Cemetery The Melbourne General Cemetery is a large (43 hectare) necropolis located 2 km (1. ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ... Capital Melbourne Government Constitutional monarchy Governor David de Kretser Premier Steve Bracks (ALP) Federal representation  - House seats 37  - Senate seats 12 Gross State Product (2004-05)  - Product ($m)  $222,022 (2nd)  - Product per capita  $44,443/person (5th) Population (End of September 2006)  - Population  5,110,500 (2nd)  - Density  22. ... A family of Russian settlers in the Caucasus region, ca. ... 1663 map of Van Diemens Land, showing the parts discovered by Tasman, including Storm Bay, Maria Island and Schouten Island. ... The Enterprize at the site of Melbourne The topsail schooner, Enterprize, was built in Hobart in 1829 by William Pender. ... There is also Local Government Area called the City of Port Phillip. ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... Melbournes CBD has grown to straddle the Yarra River in three major precincts. ...

Early years

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John Pascoe Fawkner is a petifile. he rapes little boys like michael jackson does. its my duty to mess up this page heheheh duty hehehe dioreha. hello i like touching myself it is nicewas born in Cripplegate^[1] London in 1792 to John Fawkner (a metal refiner^[1])and Hannah Fawkner (nee Pascoe). As an 11 year old, he accompanied his convict father, who had been sentenced to fourteen years gaol for receiving stolen goods, being transported as part of a two ship fleet to establish a new British colony in Bass Strait in 1803. The colony landed at Sullivan Bay, near modern day Sorrento. For several months the colony struggled to survive. There were some 27 convict escape attempts, including that of William Buckley. Lack of wood and fresh water eventually persuaded Lieutenant-Governor David Collins to abandon the colony in 1804 with the settlers and convicts departing for the new town of Hobart in Van Dieman's Land. Cripplegate was a gate in London Wall and a name for the region of the City of London outside the gate. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Bass Strait (IPA /bæs/) is a sea strait separating Tasmania from the south of the Australian mainland (Victoria in particular). ... Sullivan Bay lies 60kms due south of Melbourne on Port Phillip Bay, one km east of Sorrento, Victoria. ... Sorrento is a township of Victoria, Australia, almost at the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula about 1 and a half hours south of the Capital, Melbourne. ... William Buckley William Buckley (1780 - January 1, 1856), was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years. ... Lieutenant-Governor David Collins R.M. (1754–1810) was the inaugural Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, founded in 1804, which in 1901 became the state of Tasmania in the Commonwealth of Australia. ... Hobart is the state capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. ...

In Hobart the young Fawkner assisted his father (who had obtained a conditional pardon) in his bakery, timber business and brewery and soon afterwards fell into trouble. A letter dated 19 October 1814 from Lieut.-governor Davey to Lieutenant Jeffreys instructs him that he is to receive on board John Fawkner, "one of those persons who lately absconded from the settlements after committing some most atrocious robberys and depredations, and is under sentence of transportation for five years; he proceeds to Sydney for the purpose of being sent to the Coal river during the period of his sentence, and also to break the chain of a very dangerous connexion he has formed in this settlement". This gives a misleading account of what had occurred. Fawkner's account of this incident, which appears to have been true, was that "a party of prisoners, determined to escape, sought his assistance and that in a moment of foolish sympathy he undertook to help them". (J. Bonwick, Port Phillip Settlement, pp. 281-2). October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1814 (MDCCCXIV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Thomas Davey Thomas Davey (c. ...

In December 1819 transported convict, Eliza Cobb, and John Pascoe Fawkner loaded up a cart and moved to Launceston. They were married on 5 December 1822, with a permit from Governor George Arthur. They established a bakery, timber business, bookshop, a newspaper The Launceston Advertiser in 1829, nursery and orchard. Soon after Eliza had received a pardon, Fawkner obtained a licence to run the Cornwall Hotel. Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 103,000, located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. ... December 5 is the 339th day (340th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Major General Sir George Arthur, 1st Baronet, (21 June 1784 – 19 September 1854) was Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras (1814–1822), Van Diemens Land (now Tasmania Australia) (1823–1837) and later Upper Canada (1838–1841). ...

Settlement of Melbourne

In April 1835, John Pascoe Fawkner purchased the tops’l schooner, Enterprize, to search for a suitable settlement site in the Port Phillip District. The Enterprize at the site of Melbourne The topsail schooner, Enterprize, was built in Hobart in 1829 by William Pender. ...

John Batman led an exploring party to Port Phillip District in May 1835, on board the sloop Rebecca. He explored a large area in what is now the northern suburbs of Melbourne, as far north as Keilor, and saw it as ideal country for a sheep run, before returning to Launceston. John Batman John Batman (21 January 1801 - 5 May 1839) was an Australian farmer and businessman who was one of the first settlers of the Melbourne area. ... Keilor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

When the Enterprize was ready to leave in August 1835, at the last moment creditors prevented Fawkner from joining the voyage. On board the Enterprize as it departed George Town, were Captain John Lancey, Master Mariner (Fawkner’s representative); George Evans, builder; William Jackson and Robert Marr, carpenters; Evan Evans, servant to George Evans; and Fawkner’s servants, Charles Wyse, ploughman, Thomas Morgan, general servant, James Gilbert, blacksmith and his pregnant wife, Mary, under Captain Peter Hunter. Mary Gilbert was the first European woman to live in the Port Phillip settlement of Melbourne, Australia. ...

On 15 August 1835, Enterprize entered the Yarra River. After being hauled upstream, she moored at the foot of the present day William Street. On 30 August 1835 the settlers disembarked to build their store and clear land to grow vegetables. The History of Melbourne had begun. August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... The Yarra River is a river in southern Victoria, Australia. ... August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ...

The Fawkners arrived in the Port Phillip District, on Friday, 16 October 1835, on the second trip of the Enterprize. Fawkner's diary reads: 'Warped up to the Basin, landed 2 cows, 2 calves and the 2 horses.' October 16 is the 289th day of the year (290th in leap years). ... | Come and take it, slogan of the Texas Revolution 1835 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

Melbourne businessman and politician

Fawkner was keen to secure his place in history. He opened Melbourne's first hotel on the corner of William St and Flinders Lane. He published the Melbourne Advertiser on 1 January 1838 which was the district's first newspaper. The Advertiser's first nine or ten weekly editions were handwritten in ink. An old wood press and some type were eventually obtained from Launceston and the first printed edition appeared on 5 March 1838. It was to last for a further 17 editions when it was closed down on 23 April 1838 for want of a newspaper license from Sydney. The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser was commenced on 6 February 1839 by newly licensed John Pascoe Fawkner. It was first published daily on the 15 May 1845. The printing press still exists and is stored at Scienceworks. The Melbourne Advertiser was Melbournes first newspaper. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Launceston is a city in the north of the state of Tasmania, Australia, population approximately 103,000, located at the juncture of the North Esk, South Esk, and Tamar rivers. ... March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (65th in leap years). ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 23 is the 113th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (114th in leap years). ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of over 4,200,000 people, and 151,920, in the city limits. ... February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1839 (MDCCCXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Scienceworks in Melbourne, Australia, and ScienceWorks in Ashland, Oregon, are museums dedicated to educating visitors in science and technology, while providing an entertaining destination for a family outing. ...

Fawkner acquired a property in 1839 as one of eleven lots in the subdivision of the Coburg district by the government surveyor, Robert Hoddle. The property was called Pascoeville, and was bounded approximately by the Moonee Ponds Creek, Gaffney Street, Northumberland Road and the western prolongation of Boundary Road. He lived at his farmhouse and at his townhouse in Collingwood between 1840 and 1855. Coburg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Robert Hoddle with his omnipresent surveying telescope Robert Hoddle (20 April 1794 - 24 October 1881) was a surveyor of Port Phillip in the 1830s, and the creator of the Hoddle Grid in central Melbourne. ... Moonee Ponds Creek as a stormwater drain at Brunswick West. ... Collingwood is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

In 1851 he was elected to the first Legislative Council of the Port Phillip District (Talbot electorate), and in 1856 he was elected to the first Parliament of the self-governing colony of Victoria, as MLC for Central Province.

In Melbourne as in Launceston, he made many enemies, before dying as the grand old man of the colony on 4 September 1869 in Smith Street, Collingwood at the age of 77. At his funeral over 200 carriages were present, and 15,000 persons were reported to have lined the streets on his burial day 8 September 1869. September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... September 8 is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years). ... 1869 (MDCCCLXIX) is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...

The Melbourne suburbs of Pascoe Vale and Fawkner now bear his name, along with many other lesser sites. Pascoe Vale is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ... Fawkner is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. ...

References

• History of Melbourne
• C.J. Billot (1987). The Life and Times of John Pascoe Fawkner. Intl Specialized Book Service Inc. ISBN 0-908090-77-3. 
• Serle, Percival. (1949). "Fawkner, John Pascoe". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus and Robertson. 

1. ^ ^{a b} Hugh Anderson (1966). Fawkner, John Pascoe (1792 - 1869). Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1 368-370. MUP. Retrieved on 2007-04-01.

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External links

• Enterprize - Melbourne's tall ship
• Fawkner, John Pascoe at the Parliament of Victoria

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1949 edition of Dictionary of Australian Biography from
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