D'Arcy Wentworth, Jr.
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D'Arcy Wentworth, born Dorset Crowley (23 June 1793 – 21 July 1861), was a
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army captain, police magistrate and politician.


Early life

He was born Dorset Crowley on
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D'Arcy Wentworth D'Arcy Wentworth (14 February 1762 – 7 July 1827) was an Irish surgeon, the first paying passenger to arrive in the new colony of New South Wales. He served under the first seven governors of the Colony, and from 1810 to 1821, he was ''great a ...
, a surgeon who was distantly related to the former
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,
Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, (13 May 1730 – 1 July 1782; styled The Hon. Charles Watson-Wentworth before 1733, Viscount Higham between 1733 and 1746, Earl of Malton between 1746 and 1750 and The Marquess of Rocking ...
, and Catherine Crowley, a convict from
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. They had met on board the
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, with D'Arcy being the ship's surgeon and Catherine being transported, which was part of the notorious
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. The family left Norfolk Island and sailed for Sydney on board HMS ''Reliance'' in February 1796. After his mother's death in January 1800, his father changed the then six-year-old's Dorset Crowley's name to D'Arcy Wentworth, and his younger brother Matthew's name to John Wentworth (1795-1820). He and his brothers William Charles Wentworth and John were sent to England for schooling in 1802, which began in October 1803. Wentworth enlisted in the army in England in 1811, as an
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in the 63rd Regiment. His regiment was sent to
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in 1814. He later returned to New South Wales, rising to the rank of
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in 1825. On 27 April 1826, he married Scottish born Elizabeth Macpherson, third daughter of Major Charles Macpherson (1751-1820) of Gordonhall in
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, barrack-master general of Scotland and Margaret MacPherson of Inverhall near Killiehuntly, at St Cuthbert's Church in
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; they had no children.


Career

Wentworth was sworn in as a Justice of the Peace for Van Diemen's Land on 9 September 1830. On 4 October 1830, he led detachments of troops from Bothwell and
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towards the Great Lake and the banks of the
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, Shannon and
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rivers as part of an operation to "...capture those hostile Tribes of Natives which are daily committing renewed atrocities upon the Settlers..." This occurred as part of what has become known as the
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in Tasmania. While in Van Diemen's Land, Wentworth served as police magistrate in
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, where he built a significant Georgian sandstone house. It was started in 1830 and was originally called Inverhall but is now known as Wentworth House. He sold the house in 1833 to Charles Schaw, assistant police magistrate for Bothwell. From 1843 to 1845 he was a member of the
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for the Northumberland boroughs, comprising East and West
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and
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.


Death

He died at Launceston on 21 July 1861 and was buried with his parents at
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, on 6 August 1861. His funeral was attended by some of the colony's most celebrated and distinguished citizens.


See also

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: ''Wentworth/Hill/Griffiths/Scott/Cooper family''


References


External links


Colonial Secretary's papers 1822-1877
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- includes digitised letters written by Wentworth to the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Wentworth, Darcy 1793 births 1861 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council 19th-century Australian politicians