Richard Hill (New South Wales politician)
Appearance
Richard Hill (22 September 1810 – 19 August 1895) was an Australian politician.
He was born in
Lane Cove. In 1848 he acquired 76,000 acres on the Liverpool Plains. In 1868 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Canterbury, where he remained until his defeat in 1877. In 1880 he was appointed to the New South Wales Legislative Council. On 27 January 1832 he married Henrietta Cox, the sister of W. C. Wentworth's wife; they had eleven children. A close supporter of Henry Parkes, he was a founding member of the Aborigines Protection Board in 1883. Hill died in Sydney in 1895.[1][2]
See also
Political families of Australia : Wentworth/Hill/Griffiths/Scott/Cooper family
References
- ^ "Mr Richard Hill (1810-1895)". Former members of the Parliament of New South Wales. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 3 September 2017.