Hamilton Hume—explorer
Birth
Hamilton Hume was born at Parramatta in New South Wales on 18 June 1797, only eleven years after the first European settlement in the country now known as Australia.
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/hume.html
Hamilton Hume (1797 -1873) was born at Toongabbie, near Parramatta on19 June, 1797.
http://www.traveldownunder.com.au/New_South_Wales/Capital_Country/Hami...
Education
Hamilton Hume was the son of the Reverend Andrew Hume, who came to the colony with his wife in the transport Lady Juliana, and held an appointment in the Commissariat Department. Hamilton was born in Parramatta in the year 1797, on the 18th of June. He seems to have been specially marked out by Nature for prominence as an explorer, for, from his earliest boyhood he was fond of rambling through the bush, and his father encouraged him in his desire for a free country life and his love of adventure. School facilities were lacking, but fortunately his mother attended to his education and saw to it that he did not grow up destitute of that instruction common to youth of those times and of his standing.
http://gutenberg.net.au/ausexplore2/0-favenc-online.html
Fame
The road is named after Hamilton Hume, a famous explorer in the early 19th century who in conjunction with William Hovell first found an overland route between Sydney and the infant colonial outpost of Port Phillip, the original name of Melbourne.
http://www.askfactmaster.com/Hume_Highway
Hume is named after Hamilton Hume, leader of the first overland expedition from Sydney to Melbourne.
http://elections.nationalforum.com.au/federal-election-2007/seats/hume...
Work
Hamilton Hume was the first non-indigenous person to see the Yass Plains. At the time he was struck by the superior quality of agricultural land and spectacular scenery in the area. In 1824 Hamilton Hume and William Hovell returned to the Yass Plains and it was during this time that they made their groundbreaking exploratory expedition from Appin near Sydney, to Port Phillip Bay.
http://www.yassvalley.nsw.gov.au/about/1573/1582.html
Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797 – 19 April 1873) was the first Australian born explorer. Hume was born on his father's property at Seven Hills near Parramatta, a settlement close to (and now a suburb of) Sydney. His father was Andrew Hamilton Hume, who came to Australia in 1790 as a superintendent of convicts and soon afterwards became a free settler. There were few opportunities for education in Australia during the first ten years of the nineteenth century, and Hamilton Hume received most of his ...
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Hamilton Hume (19 June 1797-19 April 1873) was an Australian explorer. ... In 1828, Hume journeyed with Charles Sturt into western New South Wales, where they discovered the Darling River, the Murray River's longest tributary. experts.about.com /e/h/ha/hamilton_hume.htm (236 words) Hamilton Hume Biography (Site not responding.
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His father had various jobs connected with convict supervision, and eventually was given land near Appin, south of Sydney. Young Hamilton and his brothers and sister grew up there, and were educated by their mother. Hamilton had a good knowledge of bushcraft, and by the age of 17 was exploring, first to the Berrima district (between Sydney and Canberra), then with Surveyor Meehan discovering the Goulburn Plains and Lake Bathurst. Over the next few years he was a member of several exploring parties, discovering Yass Plains and the tablelands near Braidwood. He received several land grants for his exploration work.
http://www.win.tue.nl/~engels/discovery/hume.html
In 1817 Charles Throsby, Hamilton Hume, Joseph Wild and others explored the country west of Sutton Forest.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Moss-Vale/2005/02/17/110...
Hamilton Hume and William Hovell were the first Europeans to explore the area in 1824, en route to Port Phillip Bay.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batlow,_New_South_Wales
Hamilton Hume and William Hovell explored the south that became Victoria, and Charles Sturt went down the Murray River to South Australia.
http://www.san.beck.org/14-12-Australia1800-1941.html
