Alexander Tolmer
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Alexander Tolmer
(1815-90), born England of a French father and a German mother, spent some of his early years at sea and in the British cavalry, and in 1840 migrated to SA, where he joined the police, rising to commissioner in 1852. In 1847 he opened up an improved mail route between SA and NSW and was responsible for a successful gold escort between Mount Alexander, Bendigo, Ballarat and Adelaide. An intemperate man, he was first demoted in 1853 and then dismissed in 1856, although he rejoined the police for a turbulent nine months in 1859. He subsequently began trading in a small cutter near the mouth of the Murray, tried sheep-farming and made an unsuccessful attempt to win the reward for the first south-north crossing of the continent. His Reminiscences of an Adventurous and Chequered Career at Home and at the Antipodes (1882), is an entertaining contemporary memoir.
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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.
He 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)[1] and also helped to establish the town of Bordertown.
He died in 1890 and was buried at the Mitcham Cemetery in an Anglican service.
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- ^ "Arrival of the Gold Escort". South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) (Adelaide, SA: National Library of Australia): p. 3. 5 May 1852. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38456151. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
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