Biographical entry: Sir Peter Delamothe
Summary
Items: two boxes. Shelf Location: 3L. Peter Roylance Delamothe, B.M., B.Sc., 1906-1973 was educated at Mount Carmel College Charters Towers and Sydney University. He was appointed Superintendent of Collinsville Hospital in 1932 and after war service in the R.A.A.F., he returned to Bowen and was elected Mayor and Chairman of the North Queensland Local Authorities Association in 1946. In 1960 he was elected Liberal Party M.L.A. for the seat of Bowen and was appointed Justice Minister and Attorney-General in 1963, a post he held until 1971, when he became Queensland's Agent-General in London. This material was collected as part of a life-long interest in writing a local history; it chiefly comprises copies of government files, newspapers and periodicals, hence is unique only in its collation. A number of books, pamphlets and periodicals which formed part of the collection have been distributed to appropriate sections of the Library; a location list is available for this material. Archive holdings are arranged in numbered folders with cover titles.
Normanby Goldfields. Mainly photocopies of government geological reports, on Marengo and Normanby goldfields, 19 items in two folders, PD/1.
Bowen and Its Environs: Early History. Largely correspondence from Mrs R. Emmerson, regarding history of Strathmore Station, Collinsville; government correspondence 1860-1870; government geological reports; newspaper and periodical extracts; list of Aboriginal place names; biographical notes on Governor Bowen. Manuscript, typescript and photocopies, 46 items in two folders, PD/2.
Notes on H.M.S. Beagle (Captain Wickham); Ludwig Leichhardt. Typescript, two items in one folder, PD/3.
Babinda, Home Hill, Mackay, Mount Isa, Proserpine, Rockhampton, Yungaburra (Allumba Pocket), Early History. Typescript and printed articles, 13 items in one folder, PD/4.
Collinsville, Early History: Extracts from N.Q. Register (1913-1924). Typescript copies, 28 items in one folder, PD/5.
Collinsville, Early History. Transcripts of memoirs from early Collinsville residents; manuscript, typescript and photocopies of miscellaneous records. 21 items in one folder, PD/6.
Reports, Iron and Steel Works 1920; Map, Iron Ore Deposits Queensland; Iron Ore Deposits, Constance and Little Range, Dawson Valley; Summary Report, Iron Ore Resources of Queensland. 1957. Typescript, printed photocopies of the above, nine items in one folder, PD/7.
Exploration of North-eastern Queensland (Particularly Expeditions of G.E. Dalrymple). Mainly typescript and photocopies of newspaper and periodical material, 15 items in one folder, PD/8.
Expansion of Early Settlement in North-eastern Queensland. Mainly typescript and photocopies of government reports and correspondence, (late 1850s and early 1860s), 16 items in one folder, PD/9.
P.R. Delamothe Papers - Miscellany. Manuscript notes, probably copied from Rockhampton newspaper; school textbook of Margaret Delamothe (Early Explorers); miscellaneous newspaper clippings, and snippets from varied sources. Manuscript, typescript, printed and photocopies, 12 items in two folders, PD/10. DELAMOTHE.