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Jimmy Governor (c. 1875 – 18 January 1901) was an Indigenous Australian who was proclaimed an outlaw after committing a series of murders in 1900. His actions initiated a cycle of violence in which nine people were killed (either by Governor or his accomplices).
Jimmy Governor (1875-1901), outlaw, was born on the Talbragar River, New South Wales, son of Sam (later Thomas) Governor (or Grosvenor), bullock-driver, and his wife Annie, née Fitzgerald. He received his schooling at a mission school and at Gulgong.
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Jul 7, 2022 · Learn about the life and crimes of Jimmy Governor, the Aboriginal bandit who terrorized New South Wales at the turn of the last century. Find out how he became a bushranger, who he killed, how he was captured and executed, and why he was the last outlaw in Australia.
In July 1900, Jimmy Governor and his brother Joe commenced their murderous rampage across central New South Wales, killing nine women and children, maiming others, and raping a teenage girl.
Jul 8, 2019 · On 20 July 1900, an Aboriginal man named Jimmy Governor murdered two white women and three white children at Breelong in northwest New South Wales.
Governor inspired Thomas Keneally's examination of Aboriginal Australians' dispossession from their land and culture and of the racism of white Australians in his 1972 novel The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1972).
