The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator
The People's Advocate and New South Wales Vindicator was a Sydney newspaper published between 1848 and 1856.
The People's Advocate was established by Edward John Hawksley, an English Catholic Radical, who wrote the majority of the paper's content, and by the Sydney printer Francis Cunninghame. [1] The partnership dissolved in January 1852 but Cunninghame continued to publish the paper form his printery in King Street.[1]
Hawksley was a Unitarian who converted to Catholicism, fought with the British Legion in the Spanish Carlist wars. After his arrival in Sydney he was employed as a teacher, became warden of the Sydney Holy Catholic Guild (1848) and wrote religious pamphlets. He edited and published the Sydney Chronicle (1846-1847), the Daily News with James St Julian before working with Francis Cunninghame on the People's Advocate. From 1863-1870 Hawkesley was employed at the Government Printing Office before retiring to Fiji where he died in 1875.[2][3]
The People's Advocate focussed on the working classes of New South Wales, and was a prominent part of the political scene of the late 1840s and 50s in Sydney. It supported radical candidates like Robert Lowe and John Dunmore Lang
During its short lifetime it acted as a foil to the squatting and mercantile focus of The Sydney Morning Herald.
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