biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1815–96)
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| biography:
| Australian statesman, born in Stoneleigh, Warwickshire, C England, UK. He emigrated to New South Wales in 1839, and became a well-known journalist in Sydney. A member of the colonial parliament in 1854, from 1872 he was five times premier of New South Wales. Knighted in 1877, he helped draft a constitution for a federated Australia (1891). |
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