Lalor, Peter

Lalor, Peter

▪ Australian politician
born Feb. 5, 1827, Tinakill, Queen's County, Ire.
died Feb. 9, 1889, Melbourne, Australia

      Irish-born Australian leader of the 1854 gold miners' uprising at the Eureka Stockade in Ballarat, Victoria, the most celebrated rebellion in Australian history; subsequently he became a politician.

      Lalor was the son of a Home Rule supporter and landowner, and he was trained as a civil engineer in Ireland. In the mass migration that followed the great Irish famine in the mid-19th century, Lalor and one of his brothers immigrated to Australia in 1852 (three other brothers went to America). Lalor found work on the Melbourne-Geelong railway and then at the Eureka goldfield in 1853. He joined the Ballarat Reform League, formed by miners on Nov. 11, 1854, to protest high license fees, police mistreatment, lack of representation, and shortage of land. When the league's petition for reform went unanswered by the government, the miners organized to fight on November 30 and chose Lalor as their leader. He and other rebellious miners were driven out of the Eureka Stockade on December 3, and Lalor was wounded in the assault and lost an arm. He went into hiding for several weeks. Soon after he emerged, charges against the rebels' leaders were dropped. After the Eureka uprising, most of the miners' grievances were redressed.

      Lalor was one of the first goldfield representatives, elected to the Victoria Legislative Council in 1855 and then to the Legislative Assembly (lower house) in 1856–71 and 1875–87. He served as postmaster general (1875), commissioner of trade and customs (1875, 1877–80), and speaker of the Assembly from 1880 to 1887.

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