Elias Ravenscroft (1786-1832) was a former ship captain from Port Oxheller who led the rebel committee during the Lochburn Rebellions and died at sea during the war that followed.

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KEY INFO

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🌱 Born : 21 June 1786

🪦 Died : 4 November 1832 (aged 46)

📍 Birthplace : Port Oxheller, Archipelago of Lochburn

🪪 Nationality : British, colonial born

💼 Occupation : Ship captain, rebel leader

🗝️ Associated place : Port Oxheller, Lochburn County

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TIMELINE

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• 1786: Birth in Port Oxheller

• 1810: A captain at twenty-four

• 1819: Back on land

• Winter 1824 to 1825: Head of the committee

• Late 1825: A fragile ceasefire

• 4 November 1832: Death at sea

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RELATED FIGURES

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• Gideon Tremaine : Friend and shipowner
• Nathaniel Bramwell : The martyr
• The Committee of Four : Local representatives

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TO GO FURTHER

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Abigail STANHOPE

Gideon TREMAINE

Hannah ELDRIDGE

[1824] Lochburn Rebellions

Nathaniel BRAMWELL

Pamparina Bay

Port Oxheller

Silas NORTHCOTT

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FUN FACT

He is said to have chosen the cabin on Pamparina Bay because he could reach it by boat from Port Oxheller in a single night, and because he knew every rock of the bay from his years at sea.

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FROM THE SEA TO THE CAUSE

∟ A sailor's son

Elias Ravenscroft was born in Port Oxheller in 1786, in a family of sailors. By the age of twenty-four, he commanded a merchant brig on the route between the archipelago and the American coast, where he saw how the young United States governed itself.

∟ Back on land

In 1819, Elias left the sea and settled in Port Oxheller as a ship chandler. He kept his friendships among captains and dockworkers, and his contacts with American merchants.

LEADER OF THE COMMITTEE

∟ A committee of five voices

In the winter of 1824, as the unrest that followed Nathaniel Bramwell's death threatened to scatter, Elias brought the local leaders together into a committee. Hannah Eldridge, Silas Northcott, Abigail Stanhope and Gideon Tremaine each spoke for their town, and Elias spoke for all of them.

∟ A secret meeting place

He chose a lonely fishermen's cabin on one of the small islets of Pamparina Bay, far from any garrison and reachable only by boat.

∟ A fragile ceasefire

At the end of 1825, Elias accepted the local truce with the Crown, but he never believed it would last.

THE WAR AT SEA

∟ Back on the water

When the ceasefire collapsed, Elias returned to the sea, commanding Utopian vessels supplied with American support.

∟ Death at sea

On 4 November 1832, he was killed during a naval engagement off the southern coast of Belden Island. He did not live to see the independence of 1843, but the committee he built is remembered as its seed.

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