Author:
The Van Diemen's Land Company [The Burnie (Tasmania) Timber & Brick Company Limited]
Publication details:
[31 Finsbury Circus and Blomfield House, London Wall, London, England.] Dating from between 1897 and 1954.
The Van Diemen's Land Company was formed in 1824 by a group of London merchants, including Charles Richard Fenwick (1822-1888) and Thomas Dyer Edwardes (d.1912), to supply wool for the British textile industry. It received a Royal Charter the following year. In 1826 it was granted 350,000 acres in the northwest of the country. It established its headquarters at Circular Head. The company retains much of the original land grant and is believed to be the last chartered company still operating in Tasmania.
