Standish, Frederick Charles

Frederick Charles Standish, 1824-1883


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Frederick Charles Standish: Profile Biography Research Notes

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Columns:	R [Role]; S [Sources].

Roles:	= Government Office (Paid); = Government Duties (Unpaid); = On leave; = TBD; = Agriculture; = Private enterprise; = Parliament;
	= British Army; = Royal Marines; = British Militia; = Colonial Militia; = East India Company Army; = Royal Navy; = Other Maritime;
	= Education; = Army Education; = Navy Education; = Immigration; = Emigration; = Other voyage.

Abbreviations:	BB = Blue Book; CCL = Commissioner of Crown Lands; CP = Chinese Protector; CPS = Clerk of Petty Sessions; GC = Gold Commissioner;
	GR = Gold Receiver; GW = Gold Warden; JP = Justice of the Peace (Magistrate); PM = Police Magistrate;
	FN = Footnotes; PSL = Public Service List; S/S1/S2 = Source; TBC/TBD = To be confirmed/determined.

Appointments:	= Appointed; = Reappointed; = Promoted; = Demoted; = Redesignated; = Succeeded/Replaced; = Transferred to; = Made permanent;
	= Retired; = Dismissed; = Passed (Examinations); = Paid as (role).
	British Army: = Purchase of Commission; = Exchange rank/regiment; = Reduced to Reserve list; = Retired by sale of Commission.

Sources (S, S1, S2):	= Blue Book; = Blue Book derived; = Government Gazette; = Government Gazette derived; = Public Service List; = Public Service List derived;
	= Report; = Book; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death document; = Birth/Baptism/Marriage/Death extract; = Cemetery; = Census; = Legal;
	= Newspaper family notice; = Newspaper article; = Magazine article; = Unconfirmed; = Military service record; = Internet.

Other Symbols:	= External link.

Dates:	Dates are in YYYY-MM-DD format. Ongoing = Continues into next calendar year; New date; Date changed in source; Date died; Date to be confirmed.
	"Original" is the date the person commenced the role. For example, when first appointed a Police Magistrate, regardless of later re-appointments and re-assignments.

Unconfirmed:	All text in magenta is unconfirmed.

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Life Events

Born:	20 April 1824	Standish Hall, Standish, Wigan, Lancashire, England.
Arrived:	1852	TBD [01].
Married:		Did not marry.
Died:	19 March 1883	Melbourne Club, Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, aged 58 years [02] [03].
Buried:	20 March 1883	Melbourne General Cemetery, Parkville, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Roman Catholic, Section L, No-0407/0408].

Golden Colony Roles

Victoria:	Gold Commissioner:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855
	Gold Warden:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858
	Chinese Protector:	1851	1852	1853	1854	1855	1856	1857	1858

Frederick Charles Standish

Career

Original	Gazetted	From	To	Age	R	Title	State	Department	District	S	Comments	FN
		1840-11-19	1843-01-10	16		Gentleman Cadet, Royal Military Academy		Royal Artillery	Woolwich		2nd Lieutenant.
		1843-01-11	1844-04-13	18		Second Lieutenant, Royal Regiment of Artillery		Royal Artillery			1st Lieutenant.
		1844-04-14	1850-08-09	19		First Lieutenant, Royal Regiment of Artillery		Royal Artillery			2nd Captain
		1850-08-10	1852-07-09	26		Second Captain, Royal Regiment of Artillery		Royal Artillery			Resigned.

References

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Notes
01⇑	Early biographical profiles of Standish say that he "came to Victoria in 1852." John Heaton's Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time of 1879 is the earliest I have found so far. The only Standish I have found was on the coastal barque Cape Horn that sailed from Sydney on 29 April 1852 and arrived at Melbourne on 7 May. This Standish is not listed amongst the passengers in the Melbourne arrival report, implying that he was in steerage, so unlikely to be our Standish. A key question is whether he left England before or after his resignation from the Royal Artillery was accepted on 9 July 1852. Herbert Taylor Middleton, also of the Royal Artillery, resigned on the same day as Standish and sailed on the Auriga on 30 August 1852, arriving at Melbourne on 24 January 1853. Standish was not on the Auriga passenger list.
02⇑	Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1883-002490.
03⇑	Deaths - Standish; The Argus (Melbourne), 20 March 1883, p 1 [Trove; 18 April 2023]
04⇑	Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

Further Reading

Biography:	J S Legge; Standish, Frederick Charles (1824-1883) [Australian Dictionary of Biography; 23 February 2024].
Profile:	Standish, Captain Frederick Charles; in: H Morin Humphreys; Men of the Time in Australia: Victorian Series [Second Edition]; McCarron, Bird, and Co, Melbourne, 1882; pp 198-199.
Profile:	Standish, Captain Frederick Charles; in: John Henniker Heaton; Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time; George Robertson, Sydney, 1879; pp 188-189.
Profile:	Frederick Standish [Wikipedia; 23 October 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13	Page formatting revised.
2022-01-31	Page created.