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William Campbell-Honourable, Brave And A Successful Gold Discoverer

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William Campbell – Honourable, Brave and A Successful Gold Discoverer By Briar Campbell Have you ever found gold? William Campbell has. In fact he was first discoverer of gold at Donald Cameron’s at Clunes Station. William Campbell was born on the 17th of July 1810 at Aberfoyle, Perthshire and Scotland. In the early 1850s William Campbell discovered gold at Donald Cameron’s at Clunes Station, but fearing that if he announced it the gold panning and mining would ruin pastoral land and draw off rural labour force, he did not announce his discovery until July 1851. In November 1851 he was elected as member for Loddon to the first Victorian Legislative Council. A select committee of the legislative Council of 1853-54 voted Campbell a $1000

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