Melbourne’s Georgian Gentlemen: Landholders in Early Melbourne, by Dr Liz Rushen, historian and curator of the exhibition 'Hoddle Grid: The Great Land Grab'. On 1 June 1837 Robert Hoddle stood on a log and began auctioning the first allotments of land in the newly-surveyed Hoddle Grid, now the heart of Melbourne’s CBD. The purchasers came from …

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