Richard Pope (miner)

For other people named Dick Pope, see Dick Pope (disambiguation).

Richard Pope
Born
Richard Pope

(1834-05-02)2 May 1834
Trescowe, Breage, Cornwall, United Kingdom
Died23 April 1900(1900-04-23) (aged 65)
Broken Hill, Colony of New South Wales
Occupations
SpouseMary Ann Pope
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(m. 1858; died 1920)​
RelativesJim May[1]

Richard Pope (2 May 1834 – 23 April 1900) was a British-Australian mine manager, engineer, Methodist lay preacher and diarist during the 19th century. He is most known by his diaries that are stored in the State Libraries of Victoria and South Australia that detailed the way of life in the late 19th century of Australia in the lead up before Federation.[2][1]

He married Mary Ann Pope (née Andrew) on the 12th of June 1858 at the age of 24 in Cornwall. Together, they had 13 children with nine surviving to adulthood. He died at the age of 65 in Broken Hill in 1900.[2][3]

  1. ^ a b "Select List of Accessions to the Australian Manuscripts Collection". State Library of Victoria. December 1984. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Diaries, 1855-1896 [manuscript]". State Library of Victoria. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  3. ^ Shane Green (15 August 2015). "Marvellous Melbourne: A Grand Dome of Our Own, with a View to Match". The Age. Retrieved 30 October 2023.