Peter Paul Labertouche, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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British engineer and public servant
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About Peter Paul Labertouche
- Peter Paul Labertouche (1829–1907), was a British engineer and public servant, who spent most of his working life in Melbourne, Australia in the roads and railway department of the Government of Victoria.
- He was descendant from Huguenots of Co.
- Wexford; Scales family of Kerry and Cadden of Galway.Labertouch was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).
- He arrived in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, at the age of 22 abord the ship Formosa as an unassisted passenger on October 1852.
- On 4 April 1853, he was appointed Clerk of the Central Road Board [Victoria] and in 1856 he was living in Lyndurst, Victoria on a government salary of £100 a year.
- in 1859 he married Eleanor Annie Scales at Christchurch, Christchurch City, Canterbury, New Zealand.
- Around the same time he also owned freehold land in Elsternwick.He moved to the Department of Roads and Bridges [Victoria] in 1860 becoming Secretary, when the Central Roads board was disbanded.
- From 1872 to 1876 he held the role of He was Chief Clerk of the Victorian Railways, and then from 1876 to 1892 as Secretary.
- He was one of hundreds of Public Servants who were dismissed on Black Wednesday in 1878, as part of the struggle between the Berry government and the Legislative Assembly.
- He had an arm amputated as a result of a shooting accident when he was in the roads and bridges department.In 1892 he returned to London where he lived out his retirement in Kensington.
- Labertouche Creek and Labertouche Cave in Gippsland, and the town of Labertouche near Drouin in Victoria are named after him.
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