• Title
  Ejection of Francis Robert Louis, Comte de Rossi, from St Saviour's Cathedral, Goulburn, Wednesday 12 January 1887 / [photograph by Rudolph Caspers]
• Creator
  Rudolph Caspers
• Call number
  P1/1507
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Wednesday 12 January 1887
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  897443
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - albumen, on card (trimmed) - photograph 22.5 x 28.2 cm, card 23 x 28.8 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  A devout Anglican and first registrar of the diocese, Rossi was trustee of much Church property. As in other dioceses, dispute and litigation arose about the parish church when it was given cathedral status. The incumbent Archdeacon A. T. Puddicombe, the parishioners and Bishop M. Thomas were the chief disputants but Rossi became heavily involved. In 1884-94 court actions, newspaper controversies and synod debates confused motives and legal rights. Rossi's alleged position as sole trustee of the cathedral property gave him a key role which he used to the full. Piqued because Bishop Thomas refused to allow a family tablet to be re-erected in the new cathedral, in 1887 Rossi placed it there and kept guard over it; later it was removed and in 1891, amid scenes of great scandal and public excitement, he occupied the building with a group of men.
  
  Reference:
  Francis Robert Louis (Lewis), Comte de Rossi, 1823-1903 entry in Australian Dictionary of Biography Online. http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/ (accessed June 9, 2010)
  
  Goulburn Herald, 13 January 1887
  
  Maryborough Chronicle 22 January 1887 - Rudolph Caspers at the request of Comte de Rossi was brought in to photograph the scene.
  
  Various other newspapers, see: Australian Newspapers. http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/ (accessed June 9, 2010)
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Rossi, Francis, R.L. 4th Comte de Goulburn, 1887 (BM), June 2010
  Digital order no:a4362007
• Name
  Rossi, Francis Robert Louis, 1823-1903
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  Adult Females
  children
  Spectators.
  
• Topic
  eccentrics
  evictions
  landowners
  cathedrals
  picket fences
  unsealed roads
  kerbing & guttering
  
• Place
  St. Saviour's Cathedral (Goulburn, N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE3281441

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