Grenville Advocate

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The Grenville Advocate was a newspaper that served Scarsdale, Victoria, Australia, in the latter half of the 19th century.

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History

The newspaper was established by the printer Johann Hermann Vogt who, along with his wife Maria Elisabeth (née Kellner, a former opera singer) and family, arrived in Melbourne, Australia, on the Marco Polo on 6 December 1856. The family lived at Kew before later settling in the Scarsdale district. [1]

The journalist and editor George Leonard Vogt (1848–1937) also worked on the Grenville Advocate. The son of Johann and Maria, he was born on 1 November 1848 at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Upon the death of his father in 1864, George was apprenticed to a Ballarat printer. From there he developed a deep interest in political reform movements. [2]

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Microfilm copies of the Grenville Advocate held at the State Library of Victoria span 12 March 1862 to 4 December 1875.

Microfilms for the period 1872 to 1890 are also a part of the newspaper collection preserved by the Woady Yaloak Historical Society in Smythesdale.

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References

  1. Adams, J. D. Vogt, George Leonard (1848–1937) . Retrieved 4 August 2021.{{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. Merrifield, S. (1964). "George Leonard Vogt". Labour History. Liverpool University Press. 7 (7): 14–21. doi:10.2307/27507759. JSTOR   27507759.