Richard Pope

Overview of life Pope began his early years in Cornwall. In May of 1855, he started writing a diary with many memories of his childhood recorded. He started off his career in the mine shafts of Cornwall.

For a number of years, he traveled to Adelaide as a mine manager there as well. In 1894, Pope holidayed back to Cornwall on a "nostalgic trip"

Legacy Since Richard Pope's death, his diaries remained within the family until the mid 1980s when his great, great, grandson's, James Whitehead and Jim May started digitising the diaries from their handwritten form. The original copies have been subsequently stored in the State Library of Victoria since 1984 with digital copies available since the early 2000s.