Jabez Walter Banfield Jabez Walter Banfield i(A152909 works by) (a.k.a. J. W. Banfield)
Born: Established: 1820 Liverpool, Merseyside,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 1899 Victoria,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1852
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Jabez Walter Banfield 'served his apprenticeship with a Liverpool printer, but migrated to Victoria in 1852 and followed the gold rushes'. Banfield was a 'founding partner in the Maryborough and Dunolly Advertiser', and, after moving to Ararat in 1857, he established the Mount Ararat Advertiser and Chronicle for the District of the Wimmera (later, the Ararat Advertiser). The Ararat newspaper was owned by the Banfield family until the 1960s.

Banfield became a leading citizen of Ararat: 'treasurer to the borough council and the hospital board of management for some thirty-five years, magistrate, churchwarden and lay preacher, secretary to the cemetery trustees, and popular public reciter and reader of Dickens, Shakespeare and other classic authors'.

Banfield is the father of Edmund James Banfield.

Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography Online, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/
Sighted: 14/03/2013

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National Library of Australia (ACT)
Last amended 14 Mar 2013 15:58:43
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