Lambton Mount

Lambton Le Breton Mount
A portrait of Mount taken about 1864
Born	(1836-03-12)March 12, 1836[1] or (1837-06-10)June 10, 1837[2] Montreal, Lower Canada
Died	June 12, 1931(1931-06-12) (aged 95)[3] London, United Kingdom
Nationality	Australian
Occupation(s)	Pastoralist, Glass Bottle Manufacturer
Known for	"Father of Australian lacrosse"

Lambton Le Breton Mount (12 March 1836[4] – 12 June 1931[5]) was a Canadian-born Australian businessman. He is credited with introducing the sport of lacrosse to Australia.[6]

In 1853, Mount emigrated from the Province of Canada to the Colony of Victoria with other family members. During the early 1860s, he was a well-known athlete, running against H. C. A. Harrison in a series of foot races.[7] In 1866, with his brother Frank and the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon, Mount migrated to Western Australia, where they were business partners in an unsuccessful sheep farm at Balingup.[8][9][10][11][12] The Mounts were also early settlers in the north west Western Australia and held a pastoral lease on the De Grey River, between 1866 and 1868. They then returned to Victoria.

Mount imported forty lacrosse sticks in 1876, an initiative that led to the first match of lacrosse held in Australia, at Albert Park.[13] The sport grew quickly and within two years, the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members.

In his later years, Mount was prominent as a manufacturer of glass bottles in Melbourne. He became president of the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers and was on the Commission for the Centennial International Exhibition in 1888.[14]

See also

• Lacrosse
• History of Lacrosse
• Lacrosse in Australia
• Category:Australian lacrosse players

References

1. "PERSONAL". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 142. Tasmania, Australia. 15 June 1931. p. 6 (DAILY). Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
2. Fox, Doug W. (2021). Lacrosse in Australia : Lambton L. Mount and the foundation years. [Victoria, Australia]: BookPOD. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-6452671-0-5.
3. "PERSONAL". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 142. Tasmania, Australia. 15 June 1931. p. 6 (DAILY). Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
4. "PERSONAL". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 142. Tasmania, Australia. 15 June 1931. p. 6 (DAILY). Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
5. "PERSONAL". The Examiner (Tasmania). Vol. LXXXIX, no. 142. Tasmania, Australia. 15 June 1931. p. 6 (DAILY). Retrieved 22 April 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
6. "This is Lacrosse Australia" (PDF). Lacrosse Australia. July 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 27 January 2009.
7. Walsh, Kay; Hooton, Joy W. (1993). Australian Autobiographical Narratives. National Library Australia. ISBN 0-642-10599-5.
8. "Manjimup – Culture and History". Sydney Morning Herald. 26 November 2008. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
9. Forrest, Kay; Hands, S. (1996). The Challenge and the Chance: The Colonisation and Settlement of North West Australia 1861-1914. Hesperian Press. ISBN 0-85905-217-6.
10. Kramer, Leonie (1972). "Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol. 4. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
11. Gordon, Adam Lindsay; Brooke, Douglas; Sladen, Wheelton (1913). The Poems of Adam Lindsay Gordon. G. P. Putnam's son.
12. Sladen, Douglas (2004). Twenty Years of My Life. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN 1-4179-6658-0.
13. "No room for cowboys". The Age. 19 June 2004. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
14. "ep0078.pdf" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 September 2012. Retrieved 1 May 2011.