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| − | Ebenezer Syme was born 15 September 1825 at North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland. | + | Ebenezer Syme was born 15 September 1825 at North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, the third son of George Alexander Syme, schoolmaster, and his wife Jean Mitchell. |
| − | He was Presbyterian and Unitarian, | + | He studied theology at the University of St Andrews to be educated for the ministry and was Presbyterian and Unitarian. He worked in Liverpool, Manchester, other north country industrial towns and in Scotland. Syme also began to write reviews and succeeded George Eliot as assistant editor of the Westminster Review. Syme married Jane Hilton, née Rowan, of Manchester, on 21 April 1848. |
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| + | In April 1853, partly for health reasons, Syme, his wife and three young sons sailed for Australia in the [[Abdalla]]. They landed in Melbourne on 17 July 1853 and travelled to the Bendigo Diggings being in partnership with [[Joseph Abbott]]. | ||
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| + | He soon found work 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. | ||
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Revision as of 07:56, 28 October 2022
Background
Ebenezer Syme was born 15 September 1825 at North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland, the third son of George Alexander Syme, schoolmaster, and his wife Jean Mitchell.
He studied theology at the University of St Andrews to be educated for the ministry and was Presbyterian and Unitarian. He worked in Liverpool, Manchester, other north country industrial towns and in Scotland. Syme also began to write reviews and succeeded George Eliot as assistant editor of the Westminster Review. Syme married Jane Hilton, née Rowan, of Manchester, on 21 April 1848.
In April 1853, partly for health reasons, Syme, his wife and three young sons sailed for Australia in the Abdalla. They landed in Melbourne on 17 July 1853 and travelled to the Bendigo Diggings being in partnership with Joseph Abbott.
He soon found work 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.
1854
The events surrounding the Eureka Rebellion were closely monitored by the Melbourne and Victorian regional press. The Age, launched in 1854, edited by Ebenezer Syme was a strong supporter of the Eureka Stockade Rebellion. The Melbourne based Argus and Herald and the Geelong Advertiser and the Mount Alexander Mail also openly supported the rebel's demands.[1]
Obituary
Ebenezer Syme died on 13 March 1860 aged 34 years.
- Our Melbourne correspondent in forms us that Mr Ebenezer Syme, well known as one of the proprietors and for a long time the editor of the Age died yesterday afternoon. Mr Syme was a man of very great ability, and an a journalist was not excelled in Australia- In the course of his career in this colony he committed many serious blunders, which for a long time lowered him in the opinion of the better opinion of the colonists, but lately, he had considerably redeemed himself. As a "man of mark," the colony can ill afford to spare him.[2]
Also See
External Links
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/syme-ebenezer-4680/text7743
https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/syme-ebenezer-4680
References
- ↑ http://www.peacebus.com/Eureka/111128ToscanoMedia.html
- ↑ Ballarat Star, 14 March 1860.
