Henry Rotton (1814 – 11 October 1881) was an English-born Australian politician. Rotton was born at Frome Selwood in

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to solicitor Gilbert Rotton and Mary Caroline Humphries. After failing to enter the

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, he entered the merchant navy as a midshipman and later officer. In 1836 he arrived at

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, whence he journeyed to

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. In 1839 he married Lorn Jane Macpherson, with whom he had two children; a second marriage on 18 March 1844 to Ann Ford produced a further eleven children. He ran an inn near Rydal in 1839 and ran mail coaches between Bathurst and

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from 1849. From 1853 he was a horse and cattle breeder near Kelso. In 1858 he was elected to the

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for Western Boroughs. He transferred to

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in 1859, representing that seat until his defeat in 1864. Rotton died at Mynora near

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in 1881.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rotton, Henry 1814 births 1881 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly 19th-century Australian politicians