mansion 'Offington' and he died on 14 August 1878. In October 1840 he married Annie Maria Gallie who survived him. They had no children. Edward Henty in addition to being the first permanent settler in Victoria was the founder of the wool industry in that colony. His portrait is in the historical collection at the Melbourne public library. Affiliations TS Henty, Australian Navy Cadets Victorian Railways S class locomotive S302 Edward Henty See also Henty brothers Whaling in Australia References External links Images and transcripts of Edward Henty's journal and manifest of cargo on board the Thistle at the State Library of Victoria Further reading Jan Critchett, (1990), A distant field of murder: Western district frontiers, 1834–1848, Melbourne University Press (Carlton, Vic. and Portland, Or.) Ian D Clark (1990) Aboriginal languages and clans: An historical atlas of western and central Victoria, 1800–1900, Dept. of Geography & Environmental Science, Monash University (Melbourne), Ian D Clark (1995), Scars in the landscape: A register of massacre sites in western Victoria, 1803–1859, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (Canberra), Ian D Clark (2003) ‘That's my country belonging to me’ – Aboriginal land tenure and dispossession in nineteenth century Western Victoria, Ballarat Heritage Services, Ballarat. The Gunditjmara People with Gib Wettenhall, (2010) The People of Budj Bim: Engineers of aquaculture, builders of stone house settlements and warriors defending country, em Press, Heywood (Victoria) 1810 births 1878 deaths People from Tarring, West Sussex Portland, Victoria Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians Australian people in whaling Australian pastoralists Australian ship owners Settlers of Victoria (Australia) English emigrants to colonial Australia 19th-century Australian businesspeople