Richard Pope (2 May 1834 – 23 April 1900) was a British-Australian mine manager, engineer, Methodist lay preacher and diarist during the 19th century.
He is most known by his diaries that are stored in the State Library Victoria that detailed the way of life in the late 19th century of Australia in the lead up before Federation.
[1] At the age of 21, Pope left Cornwall in search for work in Northern Michigan in the United States.
In 1886, Pope and his wife moved to Broken Hill in the Colony of New South Wales where he once again becomes a manager and engineer at the various lead zinc mines in the area.
In 1894, Pope holidayed back to Cornwall on a "nostalgic trip"[1] and again in 1895, became a mine manager in South Africa in the Transvaal region.