James Crotty (Prospector)

James Crotty (Prospector)

James Crotty (1845 - 1898) was an Irish born mining prospector who formed a mining company - the North Mount Lyell mining company in the western region of Tasmania just before the turn of the twentieth century.

After he died his company was amalgamated with the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Company.

His estate being left to the Catholic Church enabled the completion of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, Victoria [ Rimon, Wendy (2004) Bicentenary of Tasmania website * http://www.bicentenary.tas.gov.au/print.php?id=89]

His legacy currently is in the name of a now drowned townsite and a dam.

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Further reading

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*: 2003 edition - Queenstown: Municipality of Queenstown. :1949 edition - Hobart: Davies Brothers. OCLC|48825404; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000FMPZ80 B000FMPZ80] :1924 edition - Queenstown: Mount Lyell Tourist Association. OCLC|35070001; ASIN [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0008BM4XC B0008BM4XC]


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