Charles Garland (Australian politician)

For other people with this name, see Charles Garland.

Charles Garland c.1899.[1]

Charles Launcelot Garland (1854 – 7 January 1930) was a New Zealand-born Australian politician and mining entrepreneur. He was the founder of the town of Leadville, New South Wales.

He was born at Auckland to sea captain William Riley Garland and Nancy Turner. He was a miner from an early age, and migrated to New South Wales in 1879. Around 1882 he married Mary Newland, with whom he had a son. Garland died in Sydney in 1930.[2][3]

  1. ^ "DREDGE MINING IN NEW SOUTH WALES". Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser. 17 June 1899. p. 1410. Retrieved 8 April 2024.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference nsw was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "OBITUARY. MR. C. L. GARLAND". Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954). 9 January 1930. p. 12. Retrieved 15 September 2020.