These two events have been posted elsewhere, but it never hurts to get some extra publicity out.
On November 10, 2010 at the Old Melbourne Gaol there will be the "Roast Lamb, Peas, and a Bottle of Claret - Such is Life" commemorative dinner. For details and other connected Ned related events see
http://www.oldmelbournegaol.com.au/content/download/82613/868908/file/NED%20KELLY%20130%20YEARS%20LATER.pdf
The second event is:
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The John Barry Memorial Lecture
“Ned Kelly, John Barry and the Role of Social
Activism in Criminal Justice Reform”
130th Anniversary of the Execution of Ned Kelly
11th November 2010 by Peter Norden AO
6.00 – 7.15pm
Public Lecture Theatre
Old Arts Building
The University of Melbourne
PARKVILLE VIC 3010
Admission is free. Bookings are required.
Seating is limited.
To register visit:
http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/peternorden
http://alumni.online.unimelb.edu.au/s/1182/index.aspx?sid=1182&pgid=929&gid=1&cid=1643&ecid=1643
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I had wondered who was John Barry? Then doing a bit of searching showed me that I knew of him already as J.V. Barry! There had been a really great article called "Pursuing Ned Kelly in the 1950s" which can be found at http://www.nla.gov.au/pub/nlanews/2007/jun07/story-3.pdf
It is well worth a read! How I wish Barry had gotten around to writing the book on Ned he had hoped to!
WELCOME TO ELEVEN MILE CREEK. Thanks for visiting us. We hope to use this blog to bring news, views, nuggets and musings, some serious, some lighthearted, but all to do with all things associated with Ned Kelly.
Thank you for tipping us off about the two forthcoming events in the world of Kelly, Sharon. As always, your thoughtfulness is appreciated.
ReplyDeleteIt is an odd coincidence that John Barry was also a judge, but no relation to the other Judge Barry whose life intersected so disastrously with Ned. A book on the life of John Barry was published a couple of years back, and I am sure that his interest in Ned was recorded in this volume. Barry also did the article on Ned for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, and it is available online. It was published in the early 1960s so would probably benefit from the mass of new research that has been done since then, and there are a few factual errors in it for anyone who feels like a challenge.
I read the book and Judge J V Barry toured the Kelly country in the summer of 1949 and 1950 with his friend Judge Alf Foster researching the Kelly story and I wonder whether this Judge who was bought up in Beechworth may have been a descendent of Police Magistrate Foster who figured in the Ned story many times.
ReplyDeleteThat is an interesting question. Here is what I have found..in the ADB online in the entry for Judge Alfred Foster there was this:
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FOSTER, ALFRED WILLIAM (1886-1962), judge, was born on 28 July 1886 at Beechworth, Victoria, eldest of the three surviving children of Alfred William Foster, tobacconist and commission agent, and his wife Sarah, née Brown, daughter of a Jewish draper. In the 1850s Foster's paternal grandfather, a Yorkshire man, had left his post as a police magistrate in Tasmania to bring his family to the gold diggings, near Beechworth."
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The paternal grandfather being a police magistrate and being on the goldfields near Beechworth sounds promising, but looking at the entry in Corfield for police magistrate William Henry Foster (who was magistrate at Ned's committal hearing in 1880) it says that he came out from the UK (says his father was from Manchester in Lancashire) on the Medway in 1852 at age 20, joined the mounted police, became a goldfields warden and later a gold commissioner. He was appointed as a police magistrate in 1878. The list of 11 children he sired does not list an Alfred William. Unless there are bits omitted or changed or outright wrong (entirely possible!), he does not seem to be the grandfather of Alf Foster. Maybe a distant relation? If anyone could shed some light on this it would be very appreciated.