Long Pocket
The Aboriginal name for Long Pocket in Brisbane was Tuwong, meaning koel cuckoo.
Lota
The pioneer pastoralist, William Duckett White, and his wife Jane started building the house at Manly which they called
Lota after her home in Cork, Ireland, in 1855. They occupied it in 1863.
Both
William and Jane were Irish. They came to Sydney with two children in
1840. He had several positions over the next few years including that
of school teacher and property manager, but it was the move north to
manage
Beaudesert Station for his cousin, J.P.Robinson, that brought them into the Moreton Bay area. He bought
Beaudesert and then went on to acquire a vast area of land
between Beaudesert and the coast. Later he expanded his pastoral
interests into North Queensland where he successfully pioneered the
Devon Shorthorn cross. He was a foundation member of the prestigious
Queensland Club, sat for a short time on the Legislative Council but
was not really interested in politics. He died in August 1893 at
the age of 86, six years after his wife. He was a staunch supporter of
the Anglican Church at Tingalpa.
Lowood
The name was suggested by the low brigalow scrub in the district and was given to it by the Railway Department in 1884. The area had previously been known as The Scrub and the school as, first, Upper Tarampa, and then Cairnhill.
Luggage Point
Luggage is said to have been some sort of corruption of the name Uniacke, who accompanied Oxley and Stirling on their voyage to Moreton Bay, 1823.
Luscombe
Luscombe was the name of Frederick
Shaw's property on the Albert River. He was, at one time, the manager of
Cobb and Co in Queensland. He was a sugar grower and became a member of
parliament. Shaw's Pocket is also named after
him.
Lutwyche
Alfred James Peter Lutwyche, a
strong advocate of democratic reform, was called 'the poor man's
judge', and he crossed swords more than once with the conservative
forces in early Queensland. He took up his position as a judge of the
New South Wales Supreme Court only months before Queensland became a
separate colony but chose to stay on and so became Queensland's first
judge.
On his arrival in Moreton Bay, he bought a tract of land bordering on Kedron Brook where he built
Kedron Lodge and here he entertained, bred racehorses, wrote
articles for the newspapers and was active in work for the Anglican
Church. Yet some regarded his wife, Mary, as insufficiently refined for
the position of Administrator's wife so he was not made Administrator
during the absence of the Governor as might have been expected.
The
son of a London leather merchant, he had been educated at Charterhouse
and Oxford. To his career as a lawyer, he added the profession of
journalism, working at one time on the same staff with Charles Dickens.
He came to Australia to report on Australian affairs for the
Morning Chronicle but took up his legal profession. He served on the NSW Legislative Council for some years before coming north.
Lytton
Lytton district and holding
was named by Sir George Bowen in 1859 after Edward George Earle Lytton
Bulwer, the first Baron Lytton, 1803-1873. This flashy
young man around London was the son of an army general and a wealthy
mother who cut off his money supply when he married against her wishes,
so he turned to writing novels to get an income. However his
relationship with his wife deteriorated to the point that he gained a
legal separation in 1836. This did not stop her writing attacks
on her husband, attacks which affected the parliamentary career he had
started four years earlier. He alternated between writing and politics
throughout his life. He was Secretary for the Colonies in Lord Derby's
ministry, 1858-1859, at the time Queeensland was separated off from New
South Wales. He became Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866. He is more
famous for his writing than he is as a parliamentarian. He was more
skillful with the written than with the spoken word.
Following
the publication of a report on Queensland's defences in 1877 a fort was
established at Lytton to protect Brisbane from naval attack. The
Aboriginal name for the area was
Gnaloongpin.
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