Hugh C. E. Childers - Papers [M1687], 1850-1895

M 1687

fonds

Canberra : Australian Joint Copying Project, [19--]

432678

Microfilm : M 1687

microfilm reel 35 mm

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers migrated to Melbourne in 1850 and was Auditor-General 1852, Member of the Legislative Council 1852, Collector of Customs 1853, and Member of the Legislative Assembly 1856. He returned to England in 1858 and held positions of First Lord of the Admiralty, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Secretary of State for War, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Home Secretary in the ministries of W.E. Gladstone

The papers comprise the diary of his voyage to Australia in 1850, four diaries of his wife Emily Childers in Melbourne in 1852-56, and correspondence concerning their disreputable son Rowland, who was exiled to Australia in 1878-86

Filmed as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project by the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales
National Library of Australia holds microfilm master
Available for reference
Australian Joint Copying Project handbook. Part 8 : Miscellaneous [M series], Entry 261, p. 96
Australian Joint Copying Project miscellaneous series M1687
Microfilm copy of originals held by the Royal Commonweath Society, Northumberland Ave., London
Descriptive list filmed on the reel (2 p.)