Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria, credited to William Westgarth, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then entered the office of G. Young and Company of Leith, who were engaged in the Australian trade, and realizing the possibilities of the new land, decided to emigrate to Australia. He arrived in Melbourne, then a town of three or four thousand inhabitants, in December 1840. When the new colony was constituted Westgarth headed the poll for Melbourne at the election for the legislative council. He had had many activities during the previous 10 years. He revisited Australia in 1888 and was everywhere welcomed. When the Melbourne international exhibition was opened he walked in the procession through the avenue of nations alongside Mr Francis Henty, then the sole survivor of the brotherhood who founded Victoria. As a result of his visit two volumes appeared Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria, in 1888, and Half a Century of Australasian Progress, in 1889. Returning to Great Britain Westgarth died suddenly at Edinburgh on 28 October 1889. He married in 1853 and left a widow and two daughters.

Recording facts

• Recording title: Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
• Author credits: William Westgarth
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 17
• Listed recording duration: 6:21:29

Catalogue topics

• history
• melbourne
• victoria
• westgarth
• memoirs

Track guide

1. Section 01 — 12:19
2. Section 02 — 13:08
3. Section 03 — 9:20
4. Section 04 — 25:36
5. Section 05 — 25:29
6. Section 06 — 23:43
7. Section 07 — 16:59
8. Section 08 — 27:41
9. Section 09 — 24:46
10. Section 10 — 30:59
11. Section 11 — 20:40
12. Section 12 — 16:25
13. Section 13 — 23:35
14. Section 14 — 32:45
15. Section 15 — 16:52
16. Section 16 — 37:34
17. Section 17 — 23:49

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