Frederick C B Vosper – Firebrand and Agitator

The son of a civil engineer,  Charles Watson Vosper, Frederick Charles Burleigh Vosper was born in St Dominick  Cornwall in England and educated at Truro. He immigrated to Bolivia at the age of 15. Few other details of his early life are known, but in 1885 he was at Devonport serving with the Royal Navy on the […]

Vosper’s Dog and the Goat

(July 10, 1910)When the late rederick C.B. Vosper was editing the “Coolgardie Miner” for Billy Clare (the founder), in the middle nineties (1890’s), the long-haired litterateur owned a dog that was the terror of all within reach of its teeth. Day after day complaints poured in to the office in reference to children and other […]