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== Background ==
 
== Background ==
 
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.
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He was Presbyterian and Unitarian, journalist, Member of the Lower House, a radical pioneer and newspaper editor and owner.
  
 
==1854==
 
==1854==

Revision as of 08:44, 28 October 2022

Background

Ebenezer Syme was born 15 September 1825 at North Berwick, East Lothian, Scotland.

He was Presbyterian and Unitarian, journalist, Member of the Lower House, a radical pioneer and newspaper editor and owner.

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

H.T. Holyoake


External Links

http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/syme-ebenezer-4680/text7743

https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/syme-ebenezer-4680

References