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Robert Darvall Barton
(1842–1924) Biographical Justice of the Peace Barton was a pioneer pastoralist widely known across New South Wales and Queensland, where he spent most of his life and gained wide respect as an authority on pastoral matters through extensive practical experience. Educated largely at The King’s School, Parramatta, he undertook demanding journeys across the Blue Mountains during his school years before entering pastoral management soon after leaving school. He managed and worked a succession of major properties, undertaking long droving trips and holding managerial roles on several stations before forming partnerships and acquiring substantial grazing interests in both states. Barton’s career included the ownership and management of properties near Coonamble, later ventures into Queensland pastoral country, the purchase and development of Burren in New South Wales during a turbulent period marked by the shearers’ strike of the early eighteen-nineties, and subsequent work at Biddenham and Headingly on the Barkly Tablelands. He devoted decades to improving and operating these properties before retiring after a long and active pastoral life. Place of birth: Molong Shire (now Carbonne Shire), Central West, NSW Place of death: The Grove, Roseville, Upper North Shore, NSW Son of Robert Barton and Emily Darvall, he married Fanny Smith in 1873 and had issue: • John a'Beckett, *1874–1946, of Narrabri, medical practitioner, married 1906 to Bertha Fitzgerald • Roger Furnivall, 1875–1957 • Claude Noel Hart, 1876–77 • Maurice (see) • Emily Mary Darvall, *1879, married to Herbert Britten • Nora Darvall, 1879–1962, married to Henry Lee, with issue • Alan (see) |
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