Alexander Tolmer

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Alexander Tolmer.

Alexander Tolmer (1815 – 7 March 1890) was a South Australian police officer and Police Commissioner. He migrated to the new colony in 1840 and was made sub-inspector by Governor George Gawler.

In August 1940, Tolmer was part of the punitive expedition to the Coorong after Aborigines massacred 25 shipwreck survivors from the ship Maria, which had been travelling from Port Adelaide to Hobart.^[1]^[2]

Tolmer was instrumental in creating the gold escort route between Mount Alexander near Castlemaine, Victoria and Adelaide in the 1850s (the first arrived in Adelaide on 20 March 1852 with around 600 lb of gold, the second, with 1,620 lb on 4 May 1852; it also carried mail between diggers and their Adelaide families)^[3] and also helped to establish the town of Bordertown.

He died in 1890 and was buried at the Mitcham Cemetery in an Anglican service.

References

↑ http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/shipwrecks/sa/mariacreek.htm
↑ Doolette 1997, p. 21.
↑ "Arrival of the Gold Escort". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia). 5 May 1852. p. 3. Retrieved 1 March 2012.

Tolmer biography at Australian Dictionary of Biography On-line

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Name	Tolmer, Alexander
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Short description	Australian police chief
Date of birth	1815
Place of birth
Date of death	7 March 1890
Place of death

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