Hussey Burgh Macartney (10 April 1799 – 8 October 1894) was the

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from 1852 until his death. The son of

Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet Sir John Macartney, 1st Baronet (died 29 May 1812) was an Irish Member of Parliament. Biography He was the second son of William Macartney, a long-serving Member of Parliament for Belfast, by his wife Catherine, daughter of Thomas Bankes. He ...

and his second wife Catherine Burgh (daughter of the eminent but short-lived judge

Walter Hussey Burgh Walter Hussey Burgh SL (; ; 1742 – 1783) was an Irish statesman, barrister and judge who sat in the Irish House of Commons, served as Prime Serjeant (1777–79, 1782) and Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (1782–83). He was considered t ...

), he was born in

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, Ireland, and educated at

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. He was

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in 1823 and was a

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and Killashee. After this he held incumbencies at

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and

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. In 1847 he sailed to

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with Charles Perry, the first Bishop of Melbourne. Perry made him

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in 1848 and

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of Melbourne’s new cathedral,

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, four years later. St James was the Anglican cathedral church until

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was consecrated in 1891. In regard to the colonisation of Australia, Macartney was quoted as saying that

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"were not the rightful owners of the soil" and had "not been unjustly dispossessed by the white man". Macartney was married to

Jane Macartney Jane Macartney (born Jane Hardman; 19 January 1803 – 10 January 1885) was an Australian philanthropist, religious worker and teacher in Melbourne and surrounding regions in the 1800s. An Irish member of the Church of England, in 1833 she marrie ...

(), who helped establish and manage various charitable institutions in Melbourne, often with Bishop Charles Perry's wife, Frances Perry. One son, Hussey Burgh Macartney, junior, was vicar of St. Mary's Anglican Church Caulfield, Victoria, for 30 years. Another was

John Arthur Macartney John Arthur Macartney (5 April 1834 - 10 June 1917) was an Irish-born Australian colonist, pastoralist, squatter and grazier who established a large number of frontier cattle stations in Queensland and the Northern Territory. Early life John Art ...

, a Queensland pastoralist. A grandson, Hussey Burgh George Macartney, was a captain in the Royal Fusiliers who was injured in the Boer War and died in the Great War. A great-grandson,

Jim Macartney James Edward Macartney (15 July 1911 – 21 September 1977) was an Australian newspaper editor and executive from Perth, Western Australia. He served for periods as editor of the ''Daily News (Perth, Western Australia), Daily News'' and ''The Wes ...

, was a noted newspaper editor and media figure in Western Australia. Macartney died in

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, Australia on 9 October 1894.

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