Busby, William (1813-1887)

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grazier (sheep); Member of Upper House; public servant; racehorse breeder
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BUSBY, WILLIAM (1813-1887), pastoralist and politician, was born on 15 January 1813 in England, the sixth son of John Busby and his wife Sarah, née Kennedy. He arrived with his parents at Sydney in the Triton in February 1824. In May 1831 he was employed by his father, without government pay, on a two-mile (3.2 km) tunnel from the Lachlan Swamp to Hyde Park, designed to provide Sydney with a regular water supply. In 1834, because of the failure of his father to expedite the project, William was appointed by Governor (Sir) Richard Bourke as overseer to this costly enterprise, at £200 a year to be deducted from his father's salary. On the completion of the water scheme in 1837 Busby devoted himself to pastoral affairs, he and an elder brother Alexander (1808-1873) taking up land in the County of Bligh. By 1885 he had acquired 42,000 acres (16,997 ha) near Cassilis which in that year carried 17,000 sheep. This property, Dalkeith, was also noted as a horse stud.

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  1. 'Busby, William (1813 - 1887)' - Australian Dictionary of Biography
    G. P. Walsh
    [1969]
    Published: Melbourne University Press
    Series: Volume 3
    p. 310.

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  1. William Busby family photograph album, ca.1870-1882
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