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Curdie, overcome by its beauty, christened the area Lovely Banks. When the town was surveyed in 1861 the area had to be renamed because there was already a place named Lovely Banks in west
Geelong. It was decided to call the town Cobden after Richard Cobden (1804–65), an English Parliamentarian and
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For 11 years Curdie combined squatting with the practice of his profession. He was distinguished by his humane treatment in his dealings with the blacks, who often resorted to
Tandarook as a place of safety during their tribal quarrels. These quarrels were frequent and bloody, and those that
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He was an enterprising pastoralist, who unselfishly devoted time and means to many objects for the public good. After the Local
Government Act came into force, he served for some years in the Hampden Shire Council. He lobbied the Victorian Government for the construction of the
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Curdie was the sixth son born at
Slidderie, Arran, Scotland, to Daniel MacCurdy and Mary McKinnon in 1810. He was primarily schooled in the town of Ayr, and took his M.A. degree at Glasgow in 1832; then proceeding to Edinburgh, where he graduated in 1838 as a doctor.
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rises near his homestead and is named after him. In 1845 he made the difficult journey down the river to its mouth. He named the area
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