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J. B. Gribble

Australian Anglican missionary

John Brown GribbleFRGS (1 September 1847 – 3 June 1893) was an Australian minister be unable to find religion, noted for his missionary operate among Aboriginal people in New Southern Wales, Western Australia and Queensland. Government appointment in Western Australia was off within a year due to opposition from squatters and others who abstruse Aboriginal employees.

History

Gribble was born main Redruth, Cornwall, a son of mentor Benjamin Gribble (1810–1866) and Mary Gribble, née Brown (1808 – 20 Jan 1887), and as a young squire emigrated with his parents to Empress, Australia. He was devoutly religious, put forward early chose the life of fine Congregational Minister, serving in Rutherglen litter 1876,[1] and in 1878 moved come close to Jerilderie,[2] so was there at righteousness time of the Kelly gang's career of the town (February 1879). According to one account, Kelly admonished Steve Hart for taking Gribble's watch, considered opinion the grounds it was an low-cost make, also that Gribble interceded accost Kelly on behalf of a wench, whose riding horse the gang abstruse appropriated.[3]

Warangesda

Gribble was concerned at the give out of local Aboriginal girls and squad who had cohabited with white lower ranks, to be abandoned when they became pregnant. He determined on setting dress up a refuge where these women ahead their children were cared for, decomposing from degrading influences, especially of the cup that cheers. He lamented the fact that Port, with one tenth the Aboriginal mankind of New South Wales, had hang around Church and State missions, yet influence larger colony had none,[4] with say publicly exception of the Maloga Aboriginal Detachment School, run as a private charitableness by Daniel Matthews and his brothers. Thanks to Gribble's efforts, and trim by the people of Darlington Converge, an area was set aside wishy-washy government as an Aboriginal reserve,[5] christened Warangesda, a portmanteau of an Contemptuous boong word and "Bethesda", to mean "house of healing" or "house of mercy",[6] and superintended by Gribble, who go through his friend J. J. Lloyd and uncomplicated handful of Aboriginal men performed nobleness construction work.

His church at Jerilderie was Presbyterian, and at Rutherglen fair enough regularly officiated at a church achieve that denomination, but he maintained fellows of the Congregational Union of Empress, and in any case, the career had to be non-denominational to grip aid from the New South Princedom Government.[7] In 1880 the mission acknowledged government assistance, and was visited jam the (Anglican) bishop of Goulburn, Mesac Thomas. Gribble joined the Anglican cathedral, was made a stipendiary reader advocate 1880, deacon in 1881 and holy man in 1883.[8] In 1883, following trig drop in financial support for nobleness mission, he announced his resignation on account of superintendent, declaring his intention to exposed a mission in Western Australia, on the contrary was coerced into remaining.[9] His constitution was failing however, and in Go by shanks`s pony 1884 he left to recuperate response England, returning the following January all the more invigorated.[10] While in England he was admitted a Fellow of the Imperial Geographical Society, and published a leaflet Black but Comely . . ., a plea for support of Austronesian Aboriginal missions based on his Sydney lectures, with a foreword by leadership Archbishop of Canterbury.[11]

Western Australia

Four months afterwards Gribble announced that he had anachronistic invited by the Anglican church interchangeable Western Australia to found a crash mission on the Gascoyne River, existing with John Rushton, a Warangesda minister, as his assistant, left for Racketeer Bay in July, travelling by convey to Fremantle, train to Perth, proliferate the steamer Otway to Carnarvon.[12] Make something stand out a generally cordial reception by managers of the various sheep stations address the way to Dalgetty Reserve persist in the Kennedy Range, where a sizeable area had been set aside grieve for the Mission, he built a undertake and native hut, sunk a ok, and conducted well-attended church services. Rushton obtained a position as teacher chops the local school, and had illness further to do with Gribble.[13] Wife Gribble and their five youngest descendants would arrive some five months later.[14]

Trouble started in December 1885 when Gribble held a lecture "Only a Blackfellow" at St Georges Hall, Perth, lecture aired some of his criticisms letter the way Aboriginal persons were proofed up north. The settlers were umbrageous and (despite the West Australian 's advice to give him a unconventional rope)[15] called a public meeting popular Carnarvon to discuss his allegations. Say publicly audience was hostile, and when Gribble attempted to speak he was howled down.[16] The West Australian then came down heavily on the side have power over the settlers, and refused to broadcast Gribble's version of events. With class consent of his bishop, he ruling its competitor, the Daily News, line a copy of his journal, which included a number of personal details and accounts from sympathetic residents.[17] Extracts published by the Daily News facade cases he witnessed of Aboriginal community being tied together with chains, put in irons round the neck. Among other abuses, he described how illiterate Aboriginal humans were induced to sign, with fine pencil mark, a contract for nation to dive for pearls, then were traded like slaves.[18] On the standard and cattle stations, Aboriginal men were assigned to squatters in a custom not unlike the earlier "assigned convict" system of the eastern colonies, scold females were taken as concubines remarkable further ill-treated. And not all abuses were at the hands of evident settlers. He instanced the Flying Boil massacre, a retaliatory raid in influence Pilbara region at which many Embryonic persons were slaughtered, partly corroborated by virtue of one David Carly.[8]

A systematic boycott disturb Gribble and his Mission began, later on extended to anyone bold enough (labelled "sneaks") to support him.[19] A inquire was drawn up and sent just about the bishop, requesting removal of that priest who was interfering with high-mindedness native labour system. Gribble was escalate obliged to travel to Perth get in touch with defend himself before the bishop refuse the Missions Committee. During the cruise on the steamer Natal he was threatened and assaulted by a purpose of squatters and pearlers, and minimum to barricade himself in his gatehouse. Efforts to report his tormentors were stonewalled by officialdom, Perth lawyers, enthralled possibly Governor Broome himself. Back bulldoze Carnarvon efforts were made to inferior building supplies he had purchased churn out unloaded.[12] The Missions Committee viewed Gribble's "Letters to the Editor" detailing these events with "unqualified condemnation", and intelligent him to have all his time to come correspondence vetted by them, a proviso which offended his "Christian manhood".[12]

In June 1886 Gribble left for Sydney unearthing put his case to the Protestant primate (bishop Alfred Barry) and goodness Australian Board of Missions, but what because the ship docked at Adelaide put your feet up was greeted with a telegram propagate the Missions Committee of Perth, who had met in his absence weather decided to dispense with his services.[20] His wife and youngest children were still at the mission station.[21] Diadem dismissal was welcomed by sections stand for the Perth press, to whom Gribble was a defiant, tactless, prying, ostentatious interloper.[22][23] To alleviate his financial place, a position (critics said a benefice) was found for him in Buli.[24] He proceeded to sue The Westernmost Australian and its publishers Harper paramount Hackett for £10,000 for libel (several tens of millions in today's money), having called him a "lying, holier-than-thou humbug" and much else. He further considered suing the Mission Committee annoyed wrongful dismissal and the Dean forfeited Perth for the wrongful revocation sponsor his licence, which could only aside applied for immorality.[25]

The court case

The testing date was set back to 5 May 1887 to accommodate the West Australian, to the evident delight corporeal its competitor, the Daily News.[26] Somewhat than being heard before a panel as is usual for a misrepresentation case, the case was heard get ahead of Chief Justice Onslow and Justice Chunk, sitting in banco, and went consign a little over a month. Visit witnesses testified as to the leader truth of Gribble's allegations, and integrity Chief Justice, summing up, was externally about to decide for the contestant, when he astounded the audience manage without finding for the newspaper, saying zigzag Gribble had shown little restraint bind presenting hearsay knowledge as fact. Diadem associate was more condemnatory and exist against Gribble, with costs. Gribble esoteric cited a number of cases turn Aboriginal employees had been treated show a reprehensible manner, but most prop up those had been dealt with from end to end of the authorities, and did not comment on the Colony as a whole.[27] He had used the fact splash a dearth of half-caste children, notwithstanding the widespread intimacy between settlers take Aboriginal girls and women, as ascertain of (widely rumoured) infanticide.[28] At bottom one newspaper had a good brief conversation for Gribble, saying he might conspiracy lost in court, but had won admiration from much of the state, and had stirred government into tightening the laws regarding employment of ferocious labour.[28] The West Australian and Western Mail were ecstatic, declaring the get to the bottom of a victory for the Colony, satisfaction that Gribble had a day order about two later "left the colony attach a clandestine manner".[27] The Governor incessantly Western Australia, F. Napier Broome, who had earlier been criticised for deflate un-statesmanlike reference to Gribble's journal, compressed weighed in on the side take away the newspaper, echoing its line range Gribble's attack had been on rendering whole Colony, and made available schedule publication detailed defences of his Administration and the settlers.[27]

Return to New Southward Wales

Gribble resigned his Bulli post injure July 1888 and was promptly prescribed travelling missionary general (or general administrative of missions) by the Aboriginal Shield Association of New South Wales,[29] scold set about founding a mission rest Copeland for the natives in primacy Barrington River region.[30] He spent previous inspecting the Warangesda, Maloga, Cumroogunga refuse Coudah mission stations, finding residents disdain Cumroogunga the most advanced academically.[31] Illegal found so many problems in grandeur management of these facilities that position Daily Telegraph concluded that the matchless way Gribble could be satisfied come together a mission was if he were "superintendent, missionary, manager, council and gleaner all in one". Gribble resigned.[32]

In 1889 Gribble founded the church of Bounce Stephen at Barmedman in the fold of Temora, with an Aboriginal countryside and a rectory "Illaville" about regular kilometre from Temora on the traditional person to Young. He stipulated that rectitude church building would be available nip in the bud any Protestant group for church services.[33] The rectory, like the church, was of all timber construction, and tempered to the ground six months later.[34] That September, Gribble and Rev. Guelter Soares of Adelong (Gribble's old church) exchanged parishes.

North Queensland and surname days

In June 1891 Gribble visited righteousness Bellenden Ker Range with the butt in of establishing an Anglican mission flesh out the Aboriginals in the area, locale he was well received by administration but encountered lassitude and great necessitate among the original inhabitants.[35] He formerly larboard Adelong to commence his mission trusty in 1892.[36] The mission station, moderately than at Bellenden-Ker, was established dead even Cape Grafton.[6]

In September 1892 he receive an attack of malaria accompanied via pleurisy, greatly affecting his lungs, arm was admitted to Cairns Hospital. Illegal returned to the mission station, extort instructed his eldest son, Ernest Gribble, to take charge of the calling while he hopefully recovered in loftiness milder climate of Sydney. In Nov he visited his old parish outside layer Adelong, and in January 1893 was admitted to the Prince Alfred Sanctuary, where he was assessed as away from help, and returned to his residence.[37]

He died aged 45, either at tiara residence, on Silver Street, Marrickville,[38] sample at the Prince Alfred Hospital.[39] Realm remains were interred at the Waverley Cemetery.

Recognition

  • His headstone in Waverley Churchyard is inscribed "The Blackfellows' Friend"[8]
  • A marker was erected to his memory look Yarrabah, Queensland.[6]

Publications

Family

John Brown Gribble married Column Anne Elizabeth Bulmer (29 March 1848 – 19 September 1928);[41] they confidential four boys and five girls who grew to adulthood:[37]

  • Rev. Ernest Richard Bulmer Gribble (23 November 1868 – 18 October 1957) succeeded his father monkey superintendent of the Anglican Mission fight Bellenden Ker, Queensland, re-established as Yarrabah on Point Grafton.
  • Rev. Arthur Hazlehurst Gribble (1870–1951) of Barellan, New South Wales
  • Amy Theodosia Gribble (5 May 1872 – 1933) married Edward C. C. Golfer in 1893, lived in Watsons Bay
  • John Benjamin Herbert "John H." Gribble (1874–1968) married Elizabeth, lived at Wellington
  • Ethel Marion Gribble (1879– ) married George Reeves (1861– ) in Queensland; married Fred Wondunna (1887– ) of Urangan, Queensland before 1920;[42] they had five children[43] was in charge of mission primary, Yarrabah from 1902. Fred, artist add on colored sands and an oyster diver,[44] was a son of Willie Wondunna (c. 1836–30 September 1946), famed blacktracker of Fraser Island who died riches Maryborough General Hospital.[45]
  • Evangeline Anne Elizabeth "Eva" Gribble (1881–1961) married Frederick Acland Wayfarer of Annandale on 8 April 1903, lived in Fairfield, then Vaucluse, Additional South Wales[46]
  • Stuart Livingstone Gribble (1886–1963) reproach Brisbane became Anglican 1900,[47] married Shape Kate Hobbins 18 July 1908, momentary Kangaroo Point, New South Wales.[48]
  • Illa Irene Gribble (29 August 1888 – 22 January 1967) assistant at Yarrabah[49] marital Fitzroy Stephen (20 January 1896 – 22 November 1978) on 13 Nov 1918 in Paddington, lived in Randwick.[41]
  • Stella Muriel Gribble (1890–1982) married William Gyrate. Bell of Watsons Bay on 20 October 1912

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