Jock Winter

After his wife's death, he remarried and lived frugally on a secluded house at the top of Stuart St, said to be the richest man in Ballarat.

After attending the village school, he was apprenticed as a butcher in Edinburgh before working as a stockbroker in the Scottish Highlands.

Winter worked as a butcher for sixteen years and earned a considerable amount of money buying "Queen of Spain bonds" after the First Carlist War.

Kemp, a shepherd in his employ, first discovered gold in the colony between Winter's Flat and Buninyong Rd.

By this point, he had a large tract of country and around 20,000 sheep and made "enormous profit" selling to diggers and butchers.

[1] From 1852 to 1854 Winter earned a great amount of money and bought sheep stations for his two sons.

After his first wife's death, he remarried and lived frugally on a secluded house at the top of Stuart St., reputed to be a millionaire.

[4][5] While an 1875 obituary says he was born 1803,[1] the website for the William-Irving clan gives his birth at 30 June 1794, to Thomas and Betty Winter (née Yellowlees).

[7] Winter built the Lauderdale Homestead (7 Prince Street, Alfredton), designed by architect J.