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William Spence Peter (1818 – 23 May 1891) was a pioneer pastoralist of South Australia and New Zealand, and a member of the New Zealand Legislative Council from 1868 to 1891. Early life and arrival in Australia
William Finke (1814 or 1815 – 17 January 1864) was chief clerk to the first treasurer of the province of South Australia who arrived in the first fleet carrying British settlers there. He became an explorer, prospector and pastoralist , and was a sponsor of John McDouall Stuart 's explorations into the interior of the continent .
Patrick Durack (March 1834 – 20 January 1898) was a pastoral pioneer in Western Australia. [1] His family were struggling tenant farmers from Magherareagh near Scarriff in County Clare, Ireland, who moved from Ireland to New South Wales in 1853. Two months after arriving in New South Wales, his father, Michael was killed accidentally.
Henry Strong Price (8 May 1825 – 30 November 1889), generally known as H.S. Price, or simply Harry Price, was a pioneer sheep pastoralist of South Australia, best known as founder and proprietor of Wilpena Station at Wilpena Pound, now part of the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park.
Alexander Cameron (pioneer) Donald Cameron (Tasmanian politician) Ewen Paul Cameron; Charles Gordon Campbell; Charles James Fox Campbell; Colin Campbell (Australian politician) William Campbell (Victorian politician) Ernest William Castine; Ben Chaffey; Chambers brothers (pastoralists) John Cheriton; James Chisholm (merchant) Robert Christison ...
H. P. Dutton (for a time reported as "Henry Pelham Dutton"), then ran a property on the nearby (St.) Patrick's Plains, became insolvent in 1844, and took up a pastoral lease in Queensland. Henry was the father of Queensland politician Charles Dutton. [citation needed] Charles Dutton arrived in South Australia on the Abeona from Hobart in March
James Stein was closely associated with Scottish nobility. A scion of an important whisky distilling family, he was born c.1804 in Scotland, a son of John Stein (b.1769-c.1814), of Kilbagie, Clackmannanshire, Scotland, a London banker and member 1796-1802 of the House of Commons for Bletchingley.
New South Wales - Western Lands Act 1901 [5] [needs update] Northern Territory – Pastoral Land Act 1992 [6] and Crown Lands Act 1992 [7] Queensland – Land Act 1994 [8] South Australia – Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act 1989 (323 pastoral leases, covering more than 40 per cent of the state) [9]