Colonial Treasurer 28.4.1824 - 19.3.1829
Born England 1779.
Superintendent of Public Sales under the East India Company, and purveyor to Longwood, the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on St Helena. Governor Thomas Brisbane informed of Balcombe’s appointment as the first Colonial Treasurer on 28 October 1823.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 23.8.1830 - 5.6.1856
Born 9.January 1796 possibly Scotland.
Riddell of Scottish decent, grandson of Sir James, first baronet of Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire, Scotland. Admitted to Scottish faculty of advocates 1819.
Appointed Colonial Treasurer on 1 August 1829 arriving in the Colony from Ceylon on the Ceylon on 21 August 1830 and taking up his appointment on 25 August 1830.
Last updated: 30/01/2022
Colonial Treasurer 6.6.1856 - 25.8.1856
(Donaldson Ministry No.1 6.6.1856 - 25.8.1856)
Born Horbury, Yorkshire, England, 14 November 1811.
Educated Pontrefact and Wakefield. Leeds wool merchant. Well travelled, arrived NSW Helvellyn 16 November 1842; Magistrate, wool-buyer, financier, pastoralist.
Director Sydney Tramway and Railway Co. Founding director of the AMP Society December 1848. Resigned when appointed Colonial Treasurer.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 26.8.1856 - 2.10.1856
(Cowper Ministry No.2 26.8.1856 - 2.10.1856)
Colonial Treasurer 4.1.1858 - 30.3.1859
(Cowper Ministry No.4 7.9.1857 - 26.10.1859)
Born Sydney, 5 October 1804, son of pioneering merchant Robert and his wife Annie Sophia Riley
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 3.10.1856 - 7.9.1857
(Parker Ministry No.3 3.10.1856 - 7.9.1857)
Born Snab Green, Lancashire, 6 December 1812, son of Stuart and Betsy, nee Cundall. Married on 21 February 1854 in England, Amelia Cowper. Educated privately.
Arrived Sydney Emma Eugenia 5 May 1835. Pastoralist, merchant, manufacturer, trustee of the New South Wales Savings Bank, agent for Lloyds of London.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 7.9.1857 - 3.1.1858
(Cowper Ministry No.4 7.9.1857 - 26.10.1859)
Born Liverpool, England, 4 October 1816, son of John, innkeeper and Elizabeth Bond. Married in Liverpool Martha Olley and later in Sydney Emma Felton producing sixteen children. Educated Church of England schools Liverpool.
Arrived in Colony as Bounty immigrant in 1838. Journalist, newspaper proprietor, director insurance and banking companies.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 18.4.1859 - 26.10.1859
(Cowper Ministry No.4 7.9.1857 - 26.10.1859)
Colonial Treasurer 9.3.1860 - 20.3.1863
(Robertson Ministry No.6 9.3.1860 - 9.1.1861)
Colonial Treasurer 10.1.1861 - 20.3.1863
(Cowper Ministry No.7 10.1.1861 - 15.10.1863)
Born London, England, 13 July 1809, youngest son of John, assistant master shipwright at Chatham dockyard, and Elizabeth, nee Orton.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 27.10.1859 - 8.3.1860
(Forster Ministry No.5 27.10.1859 - 8.3.1860)
Colonial Treasurer 20.10.1865 -3.1.1866
(Cowper Ministry No.9 3.2.1865 - 21.1.1866)
Colonial Treasurer 27.10.1868 - 15.12.1870
(Robertson Ministry No.11 27.10.1868 - 12.1.1870)
Colonial Treasurer 27.10.1868 - 15.12.1870
(Cowper Ministry No.12 13.1.1870 - 15.12.1870)
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 21.3.1863 - 15.10.1863
(Cowper Ministry No.7 10.1.1861 - 15.10.1863)
Colonial Treasurer 3.2.1865 - 19.10.1865
(Cowper Ministry No.9 3.2.1865 - 21.1.1866)
Born Sydney 1810, ‘a poor friendless boy,’ son of convict and bootmaker Thomas Smart of Pitt Street.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
Colonial Treasurer 16.10.1863 - 2.2.1865
(Martin Ministry No.8 16.10.1863 - 2.2.1865)
Colonial Treasurer 22.1.1866 - 26.10.1868
(Martin Ministry No.10 22.1.1866 - 26.10.1868)
Born Sydney on 17 February 1818, son of emancipist Edward Eagar, lawyer, and Jemima, nee McDual.
Book-keeper and merchant’s clerk; accountant with the Bank of New South Wales, bank official; consulting accountant, author, essayist, and poet.
Last updated: 04/02/2021
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