Lambton Mount

Lambton Le Breton Mount (1836[1] – 1931[2]) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia.[3]

In 1853, Mount emigrated from Canada to Victoria, Australia with other family members. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete, running against H. C. A. Harrison in a series of foot races.[4] In 1866, with his brother Frank and the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, Mount migrated to Western Australia, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup.[5][6][7][8][9] The Mounts were also early settlers in the north west Western Australia and held a pastoral lease on the De Grey River, between 1866 and 1868. They then returned to Victoria.

Mount imported forty lacrosse sticks in 1876, an initiative that led to the first match of lacrosse held in Australia, at Albert Park.[10] The sport grew quickly and within two years, the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members.

In his later years, Mount was prominent as a manufacturer of glass bottles in Melbourne. He became president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers and was on the Commission for the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888.[11]

References

  1. ↑ "PERSONAL.". The Examiner (Launceston, Tas.: National Library of Australia). 14 March 1931. p. 6 Edition: DAILY. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  2. ↑ "LAMBTON MOUNT.". The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW: National Library of Australia). 22 July 1931. p. 8. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  3. ↑ "This is Lacrosse Australia" (PDF). Lacrosse Australia. July 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2009. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
  4. ↑ Walsh,, Kay; Hooton, Joy W. (1993). Australian Autobiographical Narratives. National Library Australia. ISBN 0-642-10599-5.
  5. ↑ "Manjimup – Culture and History". Sydney Morning Herald. November 26, 2008. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  6. ↑ Forrest, Kay; Hands, S. (1996). The Challenge and the Chance: The Colonisation and Settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914. Hesperian Press. ISBN 0-85905-217-6.
  7. ↑ "Adam Lindsay Gordon Biography". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Online Edition,. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  8. ↑ Gordon, Adam Lindsay; Brooke, Douglas; Sladen, Wheelton (1913). The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon. G. P. Putnam's son.
  9. ↑ Sladen, Douglas (2004). Twenty Years of My Life. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-6658-0.
  10. ↑ "No room for cowboys". The Age. June 19, 2004. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  11. ↑ http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/0/0/7/pdf/ep0078.pdf



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