Australian Father and Son by Lord Casey

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Book has minor wear to book edges and corners. Interior and binding are still excellent. Dust jacket is only in good condition with a tear to spine top and scratching to tail front cover. Sunning to top front cover.

Lord Richard Gavin Gardiner Casey, Cabinet Member, statesman and Governor General, tells the story of his grandfather. This young doctor emigrated from England to Australia in 1833 and his father, who was born in Tasmania.

Lord Casey uses many letters, diaries and papers left behind by his father as source material.

His grandfather served as a medical officer in Tasmania in the mid-1800s, when the colony was a raw, teeming penal colony, with nearly half its inhabitants serving sentences. It is in this environment that Lord Casey's father, also named Richard, is born.

Lord Casey's father spent over 30 years as a pastoralist in New South Wales and Queensland. Poor seasons and low prices brought the family to Melbourne, where his father prospered from his connections to the Mount Magnet Gold Mining Company. (book flap and Australian Dictionary of Biography)