Lambton Mount

Lambton Le Breton Mount, born on 12 March 1836 and died on 12 June 1931, was a Canadian-born Australian businessman who is credited with introducing lacrosse to Australia. He emigrated from the Province of Canada to the Colony of Victoria in 1853 with other family members and in the early 1860s was a well-known athlete who ran a series of foot races against Henry Colden Harrison. In 1866 he moved to Western Australia with his brother Frank and the poet Adam Lindsay Gordon for an unsuccessful sheep-farming venture. In 1876 he imported forty lacrosse sticks, which led to the first lacrosse match in Australia at Albert Park, and within two years the Victorian Lacrosse Association had 120 members. Later he manufactured glass bottles in Melbourne and led the Victorian Chamber of Manufacturers.