1854 Victorian Land Grant During The Gold Rush: July 1854 land grant by purchase to Allan McDougall and Theodore Clodins, signed and sealed by Sir Charles Hotham, whilst serving as 2nd Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria, (Appointed 1st Governor of Victoria in May 1855), for a parcel of land measuring 'two acres, three roods and eight perches' in the County of Talbot, in the Parish of Castlemaine on Barkers Creek; window mounted, framed and glazed, 44 x 55 cm. Gold was discovered near present-day Castlemaine (Mt Alexander Goldfields) in July 1851 at Specimen Gully on Barkers Creek. The gold was discovered by Christopher Thomas Peters, a shepherd and hut-keeper on Barker's Creek.