NSW Treasurers

• Read more about John Fitzgerald Burns

Colonial Treasurer   22.12.1885 - 25.2.1886
(Robertson Ministry No.22  22.12.1885 - 25.2.1886)

Colonial Treasurer   20.1.1887 - 16.1.1889
(Parkes Ministry No.24  20.1.1887 - 16.1.1889)

Born Northern Ireland in 1833, son of John and Jane nee Fitzgerald.

Arrived with his parents in New South Wales c1841. 

Flour-miller in West Maitland, sharebroker in Sydney, property speculator and lived at Paddington. 

• Read more about Sir Patrick Alfred Jennings

Premier & Col. Treasurer   26.2.1886 - 19.1.1887
(Jennings Ministry No.23  26.2.1886 - 19.1.1887)

Born Newry, County Down, Ireland, 20 March1831. Son of Francis, linen merchant, and Mary nee O'Neill.

Educated Newry and Exeter, England for business career.

Joined gold rush to Victoria 1852, later becoming a general trader with interests in mining, land speculation and later a pastoralist. Severe financial losses because of economic depression and drought of 1890s. 

• Read more about James Patrick Garvan

Colonial Treasurer   17.1.1889 - 7.3.1889
(Dibbs Ministry No.25  17.1.1889 - 7.3.1889)

Born Cappagh, Limerick, Ireland, 2 May1843 son of Denis Bourke and Anne, nee Culhane. 

His father, a civil servant, migrated to New South Wales in 1847. 

• Read more about Sir William McMillan

Colonial Treasurer   8.3.1889 - 27.7.1891
(Parkes Ministry No.26  8.3.1889 - 22.10.1891)

Born Londonderry, Ireland,14 November 1850, son of Rev. Gibson and Eliza McArthur.

Educated Dublin and London. 

Arrived Sydney November 1869 to develop family importing business.  Partner and Manager AHC Macafee, merchants, Sydney. Director of various companies.  President Sydney Chamber of Commerce 1886. Active promoter of commercial associations. 

• Read more about Arthur Bruce Smith

Colonial Treasurer   14.8.1891 - 22.10.1891
(Parkes Ministry No.26  8.3.1889 - 22.10.1891)

Born Rotherhithe, Surrey, England, 28 June 1851, son of William Howard, master mariner and shipowner, and Agnes Rosa, nee Allen.

Arrived Melbourne with parents 7 July 1854, on his father’s ship Express. 

Educated England and Melbourne. 

Entered Inner Temple 1873. Called to Bar in Melbourne in 1877 practicing in Melbourne and Sydney. 

• Read more about Sir John See

Colonial Treasurer   23.10.1891 - 2.8.1894
(Dibbs Ministry No.27  23.10.1891 - 2.8.1894)

Born Yelling, Huntingdonshire, England, 14 October 1844, third son of Joseph, farmer, and Mary Ann.

Arrived with parents in October 1852, and settled in Hunter River region in 1853. 

Involved with family interests on Clarence River. Founded produce merchant firm John See & Co, with later involvement in coastal shipping and various commercial activities. 

• Read more about Sir George Houstoun Reid

Premier & Colonial Treasurer   3.8.1894 - 3.7.1899
(Reid Ministry No.28  3.8.1894 - 13.9.1899)

Born Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland 25 February 1845, son of Rev. John, Presbyterian Minister.

His father and family emigrated to Melbourne May 1852 and moved on to Sydney in 1858.  Clerk in merchant’s office, Correspondence Clerk New South Wales Treasury 1864-1878 studying law at night. 

• Read more about Sir Joseph Hector Carruthers

Colonial Treasurer   3.7.1899 - 13.9.1899
(Reid Ministry No.28  3.8.1894 - 13.9.1899)

Premier & Colonial Treasurer   30.8.1904 - 1.10.1907
(Carruthers Ministry No.32  30.8.1904 - 1.10.1907)

Born Kiama, New South Wales, 21 December 1856, sixth son of John, farmer, and Charlotte, nee Prince.

A brilliant scholar he was educated Fort Street Sydney, Goulburn, and University of Sydney, graduating MA in 1879. 

• Read more about Sir William John Lyne

Premier & Colonial Treasurer 15.9.1899 - 20.3.1901
(Lyne Ministry No.29  14.9.1899 - 27.3.1901)

Born Apslawn Tasmania, 6 April 1844, son of John, farmer and later Tasmanian MHA, and Lillias Hume.

Privately educated, pastoralist in Queensland and New South Wales. 

Moved to Albury, NSW in 1875 as pastoralist, and squatting in central NSW.  A hardened bushman, bearded, 6’2” tall, he had an impressive physical presence. 

• Read more about Thomas Waddell

Treasurer   10.4.1901 - 14.6.1904
(See Ministry No.30  28.3.1901 - 14.6.1904)

Premier & Colonial Treasurer   15.6.1904 - 29.8.1904
(Waddell Ministry No.31  15.6.1904 - 29.8.1904)

Colonial Treasurer   2.10.1907 - 20.10.1910
(Wade Ministry No. 33  2.10.1907 - 20.10.1910)

Born Monoghan, Northern Ireland 1854, youngest son of John Jackson and Ann.

Arrived in Colony with parents 1855,