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Suicides in Victoria (Australia): Suicides by Firearm in Victoria, Paul Hester, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Jack de Garis, Jack Iverson, Garry David |
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English |
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Paperback |
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52 |
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2010-06-01 |
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1156140994 |
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Books LLC |
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0.2 pounds |
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5.98 x 9.02 x 0.12 inches |
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Suicides by Firearm in Victoria, Paul Hester, Adam Lindsay Gordon, Jack de Garis, Jack Iverson, Garry David, Alex Harris, John Friedrich, Thomas Chirnside, Frank Mccallum, Frank Vitkovic. Excerpt: Adam Lindsay Gordon - Melbourne monument, which carries the verse: Life is mainly froth and bubble Two things stand like stone Kindness in another s trouble. Courage in your own.Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 24 June 1870) was an Australian poet , jockey and politician .Early life Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores , son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad. Captain Gordon, who had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani, was then staying at the Azores for the sake of his wife's health. After living on the island of Madeira , they went to England and lived at Cheltenham in 1840, and in 1841 Gordon entered Cheltenham College in 1847, but the following year he was sent to a school kept by the Rev. Samuel Ollis Garrard in Gloucestershire. In 1848 he attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich . There Gordon appears to have been good at sports, but not studious and certainly undisciplined and like Richard Henry Horne , he was asked to leave. Gordon was again admitted a pupil at Cheltenham College. He was not there for long, he appears to have left in the middle of 1852, but the story that he was expelled from Cheltenham is without foundation. Then Gordon was sent to the Royal Grammar School Worcester in 1852. Gordon began to lead a wild and aimless life, contracted debts, and was a great anxiety to his father, who at last decided that his son should go to Australia and make a fresh start in 1853 to join the mounted Police with a letter of introduction to t...
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