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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 1997-06-30 human Rosanne Walker updated 2024-10-23 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P002397b.htm person Hope Robert Culbertson AACR2 12 May 1812 24 June 1878 Place of Birth Morebattle, Roxburghshire, Scotland Place of Death Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Physician Pastoralist Robert Hope was a medical practitioner at Campbelltown and then in Geelong, Victoria. Shortly after moving to the Geelong district he took up land at Batesford where he built flour mills and supplied meat, bread and vegetables to gold diggers at Ballarat and Bendigo in 1851. He was one of the early viticulturists in the Geelong district, but phylloxera ruined the vines in 1877. Hope was also joint founder of the Mechanics' Institute at Batesford and President of the Geelong and Western District Agricultural and Horticultural Society. 1834 1834 Education - Doctor of Medicine (MD), University of Edinburgh, Scotland 1838 1838 Life event - Arrived in Australia 1838 1846 Career position - Private practice in Campbelltown (New South Wales?, South Australia?) 1850s 1877 Career position - Viticulturist at Moorabool River (Geelong) 1860 1860 Career position - Chairman, Board of Agriculture

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 'Hope, Robert Culbertson', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hope, Robert Culbertson Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812-1878), medical practitioner and pastoralist Clark, Manning Hope, Robert Culbertson (1812-1878), medical practitioner and pastoralist Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 419-420 Resource: Science and the making of Victoria Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre Science and the making of Victoria 2001