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Title
Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840
Creator
Thomas Henry Braim, 1814-1891
Call number
A 614
Level of description
fonds
Date

1830-1840
Type of material
Textual Records
Reference code
941945
Issue Copy
Digitised
Physical Description
0.04 metres of textual material (1 vol.) - manuscript - 215 pages
ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

Thomas Henry Braim (1814-1891), schoolmaster and Church of England clergyman, was born in June 1814 at Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, one of four children of Thomas Braim, vicar of West Wittering, Sussex, and perpetual curate of Barlby, Yorkshire, and his wife Jane, née Caile, of Hampshire. After his father died he was sent to the Clergy Orphan School, Canterbury. His tutor, Rev. T. Wharton, impressed by his ability, recommended him as a pupil-teacher to Rev. P. A. Prince, B.D., head of a school at Mitcham, Surrey. He later assisted at the schools of Rev. Dr Barron, a Pestalozzian of Stanmore, Middlesex, and Rev. B. Peile of Hatfield, Hertfordshire. At 18 he entered St John's College, Cambridge, and read divinity.

Well regarded in Cambridge and experienced as a teacher, he was recommended for the headmastership of the Hobart Town Grammar School, a co-educational establishment initiated by William Grant Broughton and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. Braim arrived in Hobart with his wife Elizabeth, née Liley, in the Orissa on 19 December 1835....

Braim's colonial career lacked nothing in vigour and enterprise. Circumstances were against his attaining conspicuous success as a schoolmaster, but they were the raw materials of his success as a cleric. He was of a practical rather than scholarly disposition, yet well read and something of a writer. He completed in 1840 a draft of a work on the Aboriginals of Van Diemen's Land. He published the first three issues of the New South Wales Magazine in 1843; the first Australian classical school-book, Eutropii Historiae Romanae (Sydney, 1844); A History of New South Wales from its Settlement to the Close of the Year 1844 (London, 1846); and New Homes: the Rise, Progress, Present Position and Future Prospects of Each of the Australian Colonies and New Zealand (London, 1870).

Reference:
Australian Dictonary of Biography http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/braim-thomas-henry-3043 (Accessed 24/7/2013)
Scope and Content
Native Languages of Van Diemen's Land:
Eastern Language pp. 67-68
Western Language pp. 69-70
Southern Language pp. 71-73
Vocabulary additions to the Eastern Language pp. 79-81
Language
Australian languages, palawa kani language T16
Copying Conditions
Out of copyright:
Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Description source

Information transferred from Short Catalogue (typed) as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012
General note

Microfilm : CY 978, frames 236 - 376

AIATSIS language, code and map grid reference:
Palawa Karni / Tasmanian languages (Tas) (T16)
(accessed February 2014)
Digital order no:Album ID : 1055198
Conservation note

Front cover of manuscript detached from spine of volume
Subject
Aboriginal Australians--Tasmania.
Rediscovering Indigenous Languages Project, 2011-
Australian languages--Tasmania.
Aboriginal Australians--Languages--Vocabulary.
palawa kani language T16
Place
Tasmania
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