ships, and valuable city properties and owned of land at Waratah. He bred race horses at his estate, Bona Vista near Paterson. He was the member for Newcastle from 1877–1888. In 1888, he was appointed for life to the Legislative Council. In 1873, he moved to Avoca House at Darling Point in Sydney, where he died. References Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly English emigrants to colonial Australia 1815 births Alumni of the University of St Andrews 1903 deaths Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons 19th-century Australian politicians Australian people in whaling 19th-century Australian medical doctors Maritime writers