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Crawford Pasco

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Crawford Pasco
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Crawford Atchison Denman Pasco (17 January 1818 – 28 February 1898)[3] was a Royal Navy officer and Australian police magistrate during the 19th century.[2]

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There were two periods to his career, first as in the Royal Navy:[2]

He wrote in 1846 to the editor of the Hong Kong Register suggesting that P&O might extend its mail steamer services from Singapore to Australia. The letter was republished in the Sydney Morning Herald.[4] and other Australian papers.[2]

In 1852 P&O gave him free passage on the inaugural voyage to Australia of the SS Chusan.[2]

And later in Victoria, Australia:[2]

  • 1852 appointed a territorial magistrate, superintendent of water police and resident magistrate at Williamstown[5] After repeated clashes with officers of the hulks, following a board of inquiry, in 1857 he was transferred to Swan Hill[6]
  • later he was magistrate at Maryborough, Port Albert and Alexandra
  • with many other magistrates he was dismissed on 24 January 1878.
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Retirement

Pasco retired in Melbourne and became a founder member of the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia in 1884, he was chairman of the first Antarctic Exploration Committee.[7]

In 1885, he published Early exploration of Australia.[8] In 1897 he published A Roving Commission,[9] a vivid account of his naval life.

Family

Crawford Pasco (1818–1898) was the youngest son of Rear Admiral John Pasco and his wife Rebecca, née Penfold.[2]

He was married twice, first to Mary Elizabeth Emmett, daughter of Henry James Emmett[10] and Mary Thompson née Townsend. After the death of his first wife he married Francis Emily Barker, daughter of Dr. Thomas Barker and Francis Alicia née Lauder of Melbourne.[11]

There were nine and three offspring respectively from his marriages.

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