biography
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| lived:
| (1764–1838)
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| biography:
| Clergyman, magistrate, and farmer, born in Farsley, West Yorkshire, N England, UK. He arrived in New South Wales as assistant chaplain in 1794, and farmed at Parramatta, where he was also appointed magistrate. His harsh measures towards Irish convicts in 1800 earned him the title of ‘the flogging parson’. A pioneer breeder of sheep for wool production, in 1807 he took the first commercial consignment of Australian wool to England. He made seven missionary journeys to New Zealand, and conducted the first Christian service in that country at Rangihoua, Bay of Islands, in 1814. |
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