William Thomas (Australian settler)

For other people with the same name, see William Thomas (disambiguation).

Fels, Marie Hansen (2011). I succeeded once : the Aboriginal Protectorate on the Mornington Peninsula, 1839-1840. ANU.

• Lakic, Mira; Rosemary Wrench (1994). Through Their Eyes. Melbourne: Museum of Victoria. pp. 13–17.

• Lester, Alan; Fae Dussart (2014). Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire. Cambridge University Press.

• Mitchell, Jessie (2011). Governing Indigenous Australia through God, Charity and Empire, 1825-1855. ANU Press.

• Sayers, C.E. (1969). Letters from Victorian pioneers : being a series of papers on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc. addressed by Victorian pioneers to His Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe, Lieutenant Governor of the colony of Victoria. Heinemann.

• Smyth, R. Brough (1972). The Aborigines of Victoria : with notes relating to the habits of the natives of other parts of Australia and Tasmania compiled from various sources for the Government of Victoria 1830-1889. Melbourne: John Currey, O'Neil.

• Stephens, Marguerita (2014). The journal of William Thomas : assistant protector of the Aborigines of Port Phillip & guardian of the Aborigines of Victoria 1839 to 1867. Vol. 1. Melbourne: Victoria Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

• Stephens, Marguerita (2014). The journal of William Thomas : assistant protector of the Aborigines of Port Phillip & guardian of the Aborigines of Victoria 1839 to 1867. Vol. 2. Melbourne: Victoria Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

• Stephens, Marguerita (2014). The journal of William Thomas : assistant protector of the Aborigines of Port Phillip & guardian of the Aborigines of Victoria 1839 to 1867. Vol. 3. Melbourne: Victoria Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

• Stephens, Marguerita (2014). The journal of William Thomas : assistant protector of the Aborigines of Port Phillip & guardian of the Aborigines of Victoria 1839 to 1867. Vol. 4. Melbourne: Victoria Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages.

• Works related to Tanderrum at Wikisource

Notes

1. "MR WILLIAM THOMAS, THE ABORIGINAL GUARDIAN". Leader. 30 May 1863. p. 1. Retrieved 10 June 2017– via Trove.
2. Mulvaney, D. J. "William Thomas (1793–1867)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. Retrieved 10 June 2017– via Australian Dictionary of Biography.
3. "THE LATE WILLIAM THOMAS, GUARDIAN OF ABORIGINES". 2 December 1867. p. 5. Retrieved 10 June 2017– via Trove.
4. Website, City of Kingston Historical. "Did You Know?: Aboriginal Camp at Mordialloc". localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
5. Fels, Marie Hansen. "The La Trobe Library Collection of the Papers of Assistant Protector William Thomas - No 43 Autumn 1989". latrobejournal.slv.vic.gov.au. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
6. www.assemblo.com, Steve de Niese - Assemblo -. "The Protectorate - The Aboriginal History of Yarra". aboriginalhistoryofyarra.com.au. Retrieved 10 June 2017.
7. Standfield, Rachel (2011). "'The vacillating manners and sentiments of these people': Mobility, Civilisation and Dispossession in the Work of William Thomas with the Port Phillip Aboriginal Protectorate". Law Text Culture. 15 (15): 162–184. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
8. AIATSIS catalogue resources
9. Hutchinson, Emma. "The Journal of Assistant Protector William Thomas 1839-67 (4 volume set)". www.vaclang.org.au. Retrieved 10 June 2017.

External links

• Dictionary of Australian Biography - Thomas, William (1793 - 1867)
• Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines. Vivienne Rae-Ellis. A controversial study of George ('Black') Robinson, first Chief Protector of Aborigines in Australia Melbourne University Press
• George Augustus Robinson, was a NSW Chief Protector of Aborigines in the early 1800s, George Augustus Robinson
• NSW State Library Protector of Aborigines Heritage Collection – the journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson (1791-1866)
• Public Record Office Victoria online catalogue "VPRS 2895 Chief Protector of Aborigines: Outward Letter Book 1848–1850 ... VPRS 4399 Duplicate Annual Reports for the Chief Protector of Aborigines 1845– ..."

William Thomas
William Thomas, 1860
Protector of Aborigines of Victoria
In office 1 January 1850 –31 December 1859

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