Crawford Pasco

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]

Crawford Atchison Denman Pasco
Born17 January 1818
Plymouth Dock, Devon, England
Died18 February 1898(1898-02-18) (aged 80)
Melbourne, Australia
Resting placeSt Kilda Cemetery, Victoria, Australia
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OccupationNaval officer, police magistrate
EmployerRoyal Navy, Colonial Government of Victoria
Spouse(s)Mary Elizabeth nee Emmett (1820–1863) and Francis Emily nee Barker (1837–1907)
Childrenwith Mary Elizabeth: Crawford Perry Bate Pasco (1854-1857), (twins) Pasco (1855-1855), Mary Isabel Penfold Pasco (1855-1893), Grace Pasco (1857-1857), () Pasco (1859-1859), Montague Gordon Charles Pasco (1860–1952), Frederick Claude Coote Pasco (1863–1955);[1] with Francis Emily: Emily Frances Pasco (1868–1939), Alice Josephine Pasco (1869–1920), William Henry Pasco (1871–1961)
Parent(s)Rear Admiral John Pasco and Rebecca, nee Penfold
Relativesson-in-law of Henry James Emmett[2]

Career

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 the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (P. & O. Co.) 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. Co. 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.

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 Elizabeth 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 8 and 3 offspring respectively from his marriages.

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References
  1. Commander of HMS Fantome and HMS Penguin (I)
  2. Moore, Michael T. (1974). "'Pasco, Crawford Atchison Denman (1818–1898)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Melbourne University Press. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 9 January 2013 – via National Centre of Biography, Australian National University.
  3. John William Linzee: The Lindeseie and Limesi families of Great Britain: including the probates at Somerset house, London, England, of all the spellings of the name Lindeseie from 1300 to 1800 Boston: Fort Hill Press, 1917.
  4. "POST TO AND FROM AUSTRALIA AND VAN DIEMEN'S LAND BY STEAM". The Australian. Sydney: National Library of Australia. 28 January 1847. p. 3. Retrieved 12 March 2013.
  5. "ARRIVALS". Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 15 October 1852. p. 1 Edition: DAILY and MORNING, Supplement: SUPPLEMENT TO THE GEELONG ADVERTISER AND INTELLIGENCER. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  6. "BENDIGO HOSPITAL". Bendigo Advertiser. Vic.: National Library of Australia. 14 January 1858. p. 3. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  7. Antarctic Exploration Committee (Australasia); Pasco, Crawford, 1818–1898; Royal Society of Victoria; Royal Geographical Society of Victoria; Memorandum of the objects to be served by Antarctic research (1886), The Antarctic Exploration Committee : appointed by the Royal Society of Victoria and the Geographical Society of Australasia : a memorandum of the objects to be served by Antarctic research, The Committee, retrieved 27 April 2013CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. Pasco, Crawford (1885), Early exploration of Australia, retrieved 27 April 2013
  9. Pasco, Crawford; Prichard, T. H. (Thomas Henry), 1845–1907 (1897), A roving commission : naval reminiscences, George Robertson, retrieved 27 April 2013CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  10. "Family Notices". The Courier. Hobart, Tas.: National Library of Australia. 25 September 1852. p. 2. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  11. "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. National Library of Australia. 9 May 1867. p. 1. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
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