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Samuel Henry Terry (9 April 1833 – 21 September 1887) was an Australian politician.
He was born at
Box Hill to landowner John Terry and Eleanor Rouse. He entered a counting house at a young age to learn business, but in 1842 inherited his father's property at Box Hill, in addition to 5,000 acres on the
Yass Plains. He bought up extensive suburban real estate in
Sydney
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and also owned property in
Queensland
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and
New Zealand
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. On 13 May 1856 he married Clementina Parker Want, with whom he had two children; a second marriage on 12 September 1863 to Jane Weaver produced a further three children. In 1859 he was elected to the
New South Wales Legislative Assembly
The New South Wales Legislative Assembly is the lower of the two houses of the Parliament of New South Wales, an Australian state. The upper house is the New South Wales Legislative Council. Both the Assembly and Council sit at Parliament Ho ...
for
Mudgee
Mudgee is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local gover ...
. He served until he was defeated in 1869, but he was returned for
New England
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in 1871. He served until he resigned in 1881 (having transferred back to Mudgee in 1880), and in 1882 he was appointed to the
New South Wales Legislative Council
The New South Wales Legislative Council, often referred to as the upper house, is one of the two chambers of the parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales. The other is the Legislative Assembly. Both sit at Parliament House in th ...
, where he served until his death at
Ashfield in 1887.
See also
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Hunting Lodge, Rouse Hill
The Hunting Lodge is a heritage-listed colonial era hunting lodge located at 58 The Water Lane in Rouse Hill in The Hills Shire local government area of New South Wales, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register o ...
References
1833 births
1887 deaths
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly
Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council
19th-century Australian politicians
Mayors of places in New South Wales
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