Frederick Standish

Frederick Charles Standish is the second son of Lord Charles Strickland Standish (1790-1863) and Émilie (Emma) Conradine Matthiessen (1801-1831).
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Captain Frederick Charles Standish (20 April 1824 – 19 March 1883[1]) was a Chief Commissioner of Police in Victoria (Australia).

Biography

Standish was the son of the late Charles Standish, of Standish Hall, Wigan, Lancashire, where he was born in 1824.[2] He was educated at Prior Park College, Bath, and then entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He subsequently obtained a commission in the Royal Artillery, in which he served for nine years, and retired with the rank of captain.[2]

Standish was a known gambler on English racecourses, and lost a significant amount of money. He sold his mortgaged property in 1852 and left England for the Australian colonies. He went to Victoria in 1852, and in 1854 was appointed assistant Commissioner of Goldfields at Sandhurst (Bendigo), and in 1858 Chinese Protector. On the resignation of Sir Charles MacMahon he was made Chief Commissioner of the Police.[2] This post he resigned in 1880. Captain Standish in 1861 was installed District Grand Master of the Freemasons of Victoria, English constitution.[2] From 1881 to 1883 Standish was chairman of the Victoria Racing Club,[1] and was credited with forming the idea to hold a horse race and calling it the Melbourne Cup.[3][4]

Standish wrote of his experiences as a senior figure in the administration of early Victoria in The Leader (Melbourne) newspaper under the bylines "The Contributor" and "An Ex-Official" in a series of sixteen informative and historically valuable articles in 1887.[5]

He died, unmarried, at the Melbourne Club on 19 March 1883.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Legge, J. S. "Standish, Frederick Charles (1824–1883)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: Australian National University. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Mennell, Philip (1892). "Wikisource link to Standish, Captain Charles Frederick". The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co. Wikisource
  3. ↑ "How Some of Australia's Top Races Got Their Names". Logan Livestock Insurance Agency. Retrieved 9 September 2013. .
  4. ↑ "First Past the Post: The Melbourne Cup of 1861". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Retrieved 9 September 2013. .
  5. ↑ "THE CONTRIBUTOR". Leader (Melbourne, Vic. : 1862 - 1918). 1887-04-02. p. 36. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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