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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2013-05-02 human Kristijan Causovski updated 2024-10-16 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P005391b.htm person Hodgkinson William Oswald AACR2 31 March 1835 23 July 1900 Place of Birth Handsworth, Warwickshire, England Place of Death Australia Sailor Explorer Journalist Politician William Hodgkinson was a journalist, sailor, explorer, politician and goldfields warden. In 1851 he was a midshipman in the mercantile marine. In 1853 he worked for the government on the Tarnagulla and Forest Creek goldfields in Victoria. Hodgkinson went back to England and was a clerk in the War Office until 1859, when he returned to Melbourne to join the literary staff at The Age. Reporting acquainted him with Robert O'Hara Burke, whom he joined on an expedition in 1860. At one point he rode to Melbourne and back (1287 km) in twenty days. He was involved in the search party for Alfred Howitt and was second in command of the relief party for John McKinlay in 1861. He was on an expedition that found Gray's grave and discovered the Diamantina. Hodgkinson also crossed the McKinlay Range to Leichhardt River and travelled through the Burdekin country to Bowen. From 1878-1883, he was a mining warden on the Etheridge until 1881 and then on the Palmer until 1884.

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 'Hodgkinson, William Oswald', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hodgkinson, William Oswald Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Book Section: Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1835-1900), sailor, explorer, journalist, miner, goldfields warden and politician Stoodley, June Hodgkinson, William Oswald (1835-1900), sailor, explorer, journalist, miner, goldfields warden and politician Melbourne Melbourne University Press 1972 Australian dictionary of biography, volume 4: 1851 - 1890 D-J Douglas Pike 404-405 Journal Article: Duboisia pituri: a Natural History Keogh, Luke Duboisia pituri: a Natural History 2011 Historical Records of Australian Science 22 2 199-214 Journal Article: Exploration and settlement: conflict in Queensland - an overview Donovan, Val Exploration and settlement: conflict in Queensland - an overview 2018 Queensland History Journal 23 9 581-92