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Distinguished and Famous people from Central Victoria
🌟 Ernest Leviny
Silversmith Ernest Leviny settled in Castlemaine during the gold-rush era, establishing a jewellery and watchmaking business after trying his hand at mining. His decorative work won recognition in colonial exhibitions and in London. The house he bought in 1863, later named Buda, became home to two generations of the Leviny family. Its surviving collection includes work by Ernest and his daughters. Their story gives Central Victoria a connection between the skilled trades of the goldfields and a household whose creative interests continued well beyond the rush itself.
🏛️ John Curtin
John Curtin began life at Creswick in 1885 before his family moved through other parts of Victoria. He became a union organiser and newspaper editor, later settling in Western Australia and representing Fremantle in federal Parliament. As prime minister from 1941 to 1945, he led Australia's response to the Pacific War and developed the wartime relationship with the United States. His Central Victorian connection is the childhood beginning of a career that subsequently unfolded across several states and the national capital.
