Maurice Ximenes

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Background

Maurice Frederick Ximenes was born in 1817. He was the son of Dan Ximenes and Catherine Jackson. During the 1848 Carlist Revolution Ximenes served as a volunteer with the Spanish Army.[1] Ximenes joined the police in 1852.[2]

Zimenes married Annie Washington, and the had one son, Henry Washington, born in 1862 at Richmond. [3]

Ximenes died on 01 June 1883 at Prahran, Victoria. [4]

Goldfields Involvement, 1854

Ximenes was a Sub-inspector of police and commanded the Foot Police at Ballarat. He was present at the burning of Bentley’s Eureka Hotel on 17 October 1854 when 30,000 angry miners conducted a protest meeting. Ximenes had a number of police under his control hiding inside Bentley’s Eureka Hotel before the encounter, which led to the hotel’s destruction. Ximenes lent his horse to James Bentley so he could escape the crowd outside the hotel. The pregnant Mrs Catherine Bentley was left inside the hotel.[5]

While in disguise he led reinforcements from Bacchus Marsh to Ballarat on 05 December 1854. Inspector Henry Foster stated that it would be dangerous for Ximenes to be “seen alone on the diggings.” Peter Martin, the friend of James Scobie, told Captain Evans and Ximenes that James Bentley was one of the men who killed James Scobie. [6] Ximenes was a witness examined during the report of the Board appointed to enquire into circumstances connected with the riot at Ballarat, and the burning of James Bentley's Eureka Hotel. [7]

Ximenes led the last license hunt on the Thursday morning before the Eureka Stockade battle on Sunday 03 December 1854. [8] [9]

Ximenes gave evidence at the Eureka Treason Trials.[10]

Post 1854 Experiences

Maurice Ximenes was promoted for his actions during the Eureka Stockade. In 1872 he was appointed Superintendent. He moved to the country in 1876 and retired in 1878.[11]


Obituary

The death of Mr Maurice Frederic Ximenes, formerly superintendent of The Victorian police, took place (says the "Argus") at Prahran on Monday morning. The deceased was 68 years old at the time of his death which resulted from disease of the heart. Mr Ximenes served in the Spanish army as an English volunteer during the Don Carlist rebellion in 1848, and received a wound which necessitated his return to England. He shortly afterwards came to Victoria and joined the police with the rank of lieutenant in 1852, when the force was organised under Mr (now Sir) William Mitchell. He occupied various important positions until the Eureka outbreak at Ballarat, when he rode to Melbourne in one day with an important dispatch to the Governor, and performed other acts of devotion for which he received promotion. Ximenes did duty in various parts of the colony till 1872, when he was placed in charge of the city to succeed Superintendent Lyttleton, and after five years service he was again transferred to the 'country districts. In consequence of illness Mr. Ximenes retired from the force on a pension in 1878.[12]

In The News

On the 22nd instant, a few hours after its birth, Henry, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Ximenes. [13]


Inspector of Powder Magazines.—The Gazette notifies the appointment of Maurice Frederick Ximenes, Superintendent of Police, to make quarterly inspections of the powder magazines on the goldfields of Victoria.[14]

See also

Police

Further Reading

Blake, Gregory, To Pierce the Tyrant's Heart,Australian Military History Publications, 2009.


References

  1. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  2. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  3. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  4. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  5. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  6. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  7. Report of the Board appointed to Enquire into Circumstances Connected with the Late Disturbance at Ballarat, John Ferres, Government Printer, Melbourne, 21 November 1854.
  8. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  9. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  10. Wickham, D., Gervasoni, C. & Phillipson, W., Eureka Research Directory, Ballarat Heritage Services, 1999.
  11. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  12. HOrsham Times, 15 June 1883.
  13. Sydney Morning Herald, 23 November 1842.
  14. Bendigo Advertiser, 9 November 1874.

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