Collection RS173 - Letter to John Ingle

John Ingle (c1781-1872) was a merchant and shipowner who had sailed with David Collins' expedition, arriving in Van Diemen's Land in 1804. He received a grant of land near Bagdad and acquired further property in Hobart and elsewhere. He was a friend of Edward Lord who was a fellow traveller on the Collins voyage, as was James Hobbs whose sister, Rebecca, Ingle married in 1804. In 1818 John Ingle left Tasmania and sold some of his property to Edward Lord but retained some property and commercial interests. Back in England he married Sophia Currey, whose family were bankers. Ingle was probably the most successful of the early merchants in Van Diemen's Land. Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1815 considered him a 'low, Vulgar Man who has Accumulated a Considerable Property by Carrying on Trade at the Derwent', an opinion shared by many of Ingle's contemporaries. He is remembered in the name Ingle Hall given to a warehouse he was reputed to have built on property he owned. Its exact date is not known but it is believed to be the oldest building still standing in Hobart.
For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/ingle-john-2260

Edward Lord (1781-1859), officer of marines, commandant, pastoralist and merchant, was born on 15 June 1781 in Pembroke, Wales, the third son of Joseph Lord and his wife Corbetta, daughter of Lieutenant-General John Owen, brother of Sir William Owen, fourth baronet, of Orielton. Edward was gazetted a second lieutenant of marines on 12 September 1798 and stationed at Portsmouth.
In 1803 he joined the expedition of Lieutenant-Colonel David Collins to Port Phillip, and was in the first contingent which sailed thence to establish a settlement on the Derwent, Van Diemen's Land, in February 1804. In the same year he built the first private house in Hobart Town.
For more information see : http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lord-edward-2370