Lambton Mount Explained

Lambton Le Breton Mount
Birth Date:12 March 1836[1] or 10 June 1837[2]
Birth Place:Montreal, Lower Canada
Death Date:[3]
Death Place:London, United Kingdom
Known For:"Father of Australian lacrosse"
Occupation:Pastoralist, Glass Bottle Manufacturer
Nationality:Australian

Lambton Le Breton Mount (12 March 1836[4] – 12 June 1931[5]) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia.[6]

In 1853, Mount emigrated from the Province of Canada to the Colony of Victoria with other family members. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete, running against H. C. A. Harrison in a series of foot races.[7] In 1866, with his brother Frank and the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, Mount migrated to Western Australia, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup.[8] [9] [10] [11] [12] The Mounts were also early settlers in the north west Western Australia and held a pastoral lease on the De Grey River, between 1866 and 1868. They then returned to Victoria.

Mount imported forty lacrosse sticks in 1876, an initiative that led to the first match of lacrosse held in Australia, at Albert Park.[13] The sport grew quickly and within two years, the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members.

In his later years, Mount was prominent as a manufacturer of glass bottles in Melbourne. He became president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers and was on the Commission for the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. News: PERSONAL . . LXXXIX . 142 . Tasmania, Australia . 15 June 1931 . 22 April 2022 . 6 (DAILY) . National Library of Australia.
  2. Book: Fox . Doug W. . Lacrosse in Australia : Lambton L. Mount and the foundation years . 2021 . BookPOD . [Victoria, Australia] . 978-0-6452671-0-5 . 3 . Lacrosse in Australia.
  3. News: PERSONAL . . LXXXIX . 142 . Tasmania, Australia . 15 June 1931 . 22 April 2022 . 6 (DAILY) . National Library of Australia.
  4. News: PERSONAL . . LXXXIX . 142 . Tasmania, Australia . 15 June 1931 . 22 April 2022 . 6 (DAILY) . National Library of Australia.
  5. News: PERSONAL . . LXXXIX . 142 . Tasmania, Australia . 15 June 1931 . 22 April 2022 . 6 (DAILY) . National Library of Australia.
  6. Web site: This is Lacrosse Australia . July 2007 . Lacrosse Australia . 2009-01-27 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090304131601/http://www.2008worldlax.com/pdfs/TeamAustralia.pdf . 4 March 2009 .
  7. Book: Walsh, Kay . Hooton, Joy W. . Australian Autobiographical Narratives. National Library Australia. 1993. 0-642-10599-5.
  8. Web site: Manjimup – Culture and History. 26 November 2008. Sydney Morning Herald. 2009-02-09.
  9. Book: Forrest, Kay . Hands, S. . The Challenge and the Chance: The Colonisation and Settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914. Hesperian Press. 1996. 0-85905-217-6.
  10. Leonie. Kramer. gordon-adam-lindsay-3635. Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870). 1972. 4. 2009-02-09.
  11. Book: Gordon, Adam Lindsay. Brooke, Douglas . Sladen, Wheelton . The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon. G. P. Putnam's son. 1913.
  12. Book: Sladen, Douglas . Twenty Years of My Life. Kessinger Publishing. 2004. 1-4179-6658-0.
  13. Web site: No room for cowboys. 19 June 2004. The Age. 2009-02-09.
  14. Web site: ep0078.pdf . 2011-05-01 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120929105257/http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/0/0/7/pdf/ep0078.pdf . 2012-09-29 .

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