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Edwin Boase Edwin Boase i(6353117 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1850 Cornwall,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: Jul 1911 Murtoa, Hopetoun - Warracknabeal - Murtoa area, North West Victoria, Victoria,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1851
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BiographyHistory

Edwin Boase was born in Cornwall and arrived in Australia as a child of fifteen months. His family lived at Forest Creek, Castlemaine, until the death of his father; they then moved to Geelong.

Boase was 'apprenticed and indentured for seven years to the printing trade at Ballarat and in 1872 he arrived in Horsham with Mr. [Edward James] Stephens and a primitive printing plant, where he struck the first copy of the pioneer paper of the Wimmera - The Horsham Times. After six years service with Mr. Stephens he moved to Murtoa in 1878 and founded the Dunmunkle Standard, which he published for 33 years until death intervened.' Boase also founded the Mount Wycheproof Ensign in the early1880s.

Major source (and source of quote): 'Obituary.' The Horsham Times 18 July 1911: 4

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See Also
E. Boase
Thomas Boase
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