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[[File:Major General Edward MacArthur-wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Major General Edward MacArthur. c1856,'' State Library of Queensland (Image No. 196673.]] | [[File:Major General Edward MacArthur-wiki.jpg|500px|thumb|right|''Major General Edward MacArthur. c1856,'' State Library of Queensland (Image No. 196673.]] | ||
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Contents
Background
Edward Macarthur was born in 1789. He isvited Australia with his parents when he was a child and spent his boyhood at Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta. After returning to England for his education, he went to New South Wales as agent of T. M. Macqueen in 1824. After campaigns in Europe and Ireland he was posted to Sydney as deputy adjutant-general. Later in his career he was promoted to colonel and accompanied the commander-in-chief, Major -General Sir Robert Nickle to Eureka where they negotiated with the miners at the Eureka Stockade and withdrew martial law. In 1858 Macarthur chaired a royal commission on the defences of the colony. Macarthur was married late in life to Sarah Neill. They had no children. He died in 1872 in London survived by his wife.[1]
Goldfields Involvement, 1854
Post 1854 Experiences
See also
Further Reading
Corfield, J., Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
References
- ↑ Information taken from Australian Dictionary of Biography,1851-1890, vol.5.
External links
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/macarthur-sir-edward-4059/text6465,
