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Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Life and Experiences of an Australian Missionary to the Aborigines : a brief history by Reverend E. R. B. Gribble
MLMSS ADD-ON / kartong 12 / Folder 18 / 13
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I was born in Geelong, Victoria in the year , my father at that time and until I was about twelve years old being a Wesleyan Methodist Minister. My earliest recollections go back to the my first school days when the elder boys would way lay me after school hours, placing me upon a stump tree stump, would insist upon me preaching a sermon before they would allow me to return home. All this gave me a great distaste for the ministry and for many years inom was determined that not become a Minister. In the year my father the with his family removed to Jerilderie and it was here that an event occurred which still remains deeply impressed upon my memory. This was the sticking up of the whole town by the Kelly gang of bushrangers. At most of the town consist
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[Hunt, Su Jane, "The Gribble Affair: a study in colonial politics", Studies in Western Australian History, Dec. , VIII, pages ]
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Author Hunt, Su Jane.
Title The Gribble Affair: a study in colonial politics.
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Subject Gribble, J. B, (John Brown),
Found In Studies in Western Australian History, Vol. VIII (Dec. ), p. , STU, .b
The Gribble Affair: A Study in Colonial Politics
SU-JANE HUNT
In an Anglician churchman arrived in the colony of Western Australia to perform missionary work amongst the Aborigines of the settlement’s northern districts. Within six months this missionary, the Reverend John Brown Gribble, had caused a furore in the colony. In a booklet, Dark Deeds in a Sunny Land, published in , he alleged that a system of slavery existed in the north:
that Australia itself, professedly the new home of liberty and light, should have become the theatre of dark deeds of oppression and cruelty; that a land not only blessed by the Great Go
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When Benjamin John Brown Gribble was born on 1 September , in Redruth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, his father, Benjamin Gribble, was 37 and his mother, Mary Brown, was He married Mary Ann Elizabeth Bulmer on 4 February , in Chilwell, Victoria, Australia. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 3 June , in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 45, and was buried in Waverley, New South Wales, Australia.