Edmund Hargraves

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Edmund Hargraves (1818-1890) born in Gosport, Hampshire, England, was the discoverer of a gold field in Australia. He had been to California, and concluded that as the geological formation was the same in Australia where he had come from, he would find gold there too and, indeed, found it in New South Wales in 1851, for which the Government of the time gave him £10,000.

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.